This guide shows how to manually add a new segment — a source sentence and its translation — directly to a Translation Memory (TM), and how to edit or delete an existing entry afterward.
💡 Who is this for? This guide is for Account Admins and Project Managers who need to manually add, correct, or remove entries in a Translation Memory within the wxrks platform.
Add a segment manually
1. In the sidebar, open Context, then click Translation Memories.
2. Use the Filter field to find the TM you want to edit, then click its name to open it.
3. On the TM's page, click + Add Segment above the Search section.
This button only appears if you have permission to manage Translation Memories — if you don't see it, ask an Account Admin to grant you access.
4. Fill in the Add segment form:
Source Language: always fixed to this TM's own source language — it can't be changed here. To add a segment in a different source language, you need a TM created with that source language.
Source Text: type the segment in the source language.
Target Language: choose the language for the translation. This list shows every language enabled for your account, not only the languages already listed as this TM's targets — so adding a segment can introduce a new target language to the TM.
Target Text: type the translation.
All four fields are required — Save stays disabled until they're filled in. If the segment carries inline formatting from the source document (bold, a link, and similar), it's represented as a numbered tag rather than literal markup — a standalone tag looks like {1} and a pair wrapping some text looks like {1>...<1}. Type it exactly like that; typing something like <b> instead is treated as plain text, not as a real tag.
5. Click Save.
The segment is added right away, and wxrks confirms it with a "Segment created" message.
Other ways to add segments
Typing a segment in manually is one of three ways to get content into a TM. You can also:
Import a
.TMXor.xlsxfile directly on the TM's page — see Import in All about Translation Memories.Confirm segments while translating a project in the wxrks Editor — if the project's TM link has Write enabled, every confirmed segment is saved to the TM automatically, with no manual step needed.
Editing or deleting an existing entry
Use the Search section on the TM's page to find the entry you want to change — see How to use the Translation Memory search for how Full Text, Fuzzy, and Contains search differ. Each result row carries two independent sets of icons:
Next to the source text: an edit icon changes the source text, and a delete icon removes the entire entry — the source segment and every one of its translations.
Next to each target language's text: its own edit icon opens Edit segment for that translation only, and its delete icon removes just that one translation, leaving the source and any other language's translation untouched.
Editing and deleting are gated by separate permissions: a Project Manager can use the edit icons the same way an Account Admin can, but the delete icons only appear for an Account Admin — a Project Manager can correct an entry's text but can't remove it.
In Edit segment, the Source Language and Target Language stay fixed to whatever they already are for that entry — only the Source Text and Target Text fields can be changed.
Both delete actions ask for confirmation before removing anything permanently, since neither can be undone.
