This article explains how the editor works in Lokalise Vantage and how to use it to review, update, and approve translations.

The editor is the main workspace for translation and review in Vantage. It shows your source content, translated segments, project progress, and review tools in one place.

After you create a Vantage project and start translation, you are automatically redirected to the editor. You can also return to it later by opening the Vantage project and selecting the Editor tab.

The editor is where you can:

The editor is split into three main parts:

Each row in the editor represents a segment, similar to translation keys in Lokalise Expert. The source text is shown in the center of the editor, while the target translation for the selected language is shown on the right. The left-side panel is used for content navigation and translation assets.

You can edit translated content directly in the Target column. This allows you to:

While editing, you can also use the Asset panel to check translation memory matches and glossary terms for the selected segment, then insert or apply them where useful.

The source text is shown for reference, but it cannot be edited directly in the editor.

Each translated segment includes an approve action in the Target column. Approving a segment marks it as reviewed and accepted.

As segments are reviewed and approved:

Each segment includes a menu with additional actions that help you quickly adjust translations or manage edits.

Available actions include:

If a segment appears multiple times in your project, you don’t need to update each instance manually.

After you approve a segment that has identical duplicates, a hint will appear below it indicating that matching segments exist elsewhere in the project. Click Review segments to open the Identical translations dialog.

In this dialog, you can:

The Assets panel gives you access to translation memory and glossary suggestions directly in the editor. You can use it to reuse existing translations, check approved terminology, and search translation assets without leaving the segment you are reviewing.

When you select a segment, the panel shows assets relevant to that segment:

You can also use the Assets panel as a search tool. Search is workspace-scoped, which means it looks through the translation memory and glossary shared across your workspace, not only the current project.

When a segment is selected, the Assets panel shows fuzzy TM matches that may help you reuse previous translations. Each match includes a match percentage, so you can quickly understand how close it is to the current segment.

To use a TM match:

For fuzzy matches below 100%, Vantage does not simply copy and paste the TM entry into the segment. Instead, it uses ProAI to retranslate the segment with the selected TM entry as the main context. This helps preserve required tags, placeholders, and code-like elements.

Always review the result before approving the segment.

The Assets panel also shows glossary terms relevant to the selected segment. Use these suggestions to keep product names, brand terms, campaign wording, and other approved terminology consistent.

You can:

Glossary term filters apply to the target language and combine with other active filters.

You can search translation memory and glossary entries directly from the Asset panel.

Search works across the workspace assets shared with your workspace. This is useful when you want to check how a phrase was translated before, even if it does not appear as a direct suggestion for the current segment.

Search behavior depends on whether a segment is selected:

You can also insert glossary terms directly while editing a translation.

Type / in a segment to open a term picker. The suggested terms are matched to the current segment’s languages. Keep typing to narrow the list, then select the term you want to insert.

To exit the picker and leave your text as-is, type a double space.

You can view previous versions of a translation directly from the editor. To open the history for a segment:

The history panel shows previous translation versions for that segment. This helps you compare the current translation with earlier versions without leaving the editor.

For each previous version, you can:

Use translation history when you want to check how a translation changed during review, recover an earlier version, or compare edits before approving a segment.

For certain file formats, you can preview translated content directly in the editor:

Vantage supports two preview modes: interactive preview and static preview. The available preview modes depend on the file format. In the interactive preview you can, for example, locate specific segments easily:

You can switch between static and interactive preview modes using controls in the top menu. Here, you can also select the preview language:

Click the "cancel" icon to close the preview.

Vantage remembers your settings, so that the next time you enter the editor, the preview will show up at the same place as you set it up.

Interactive preview is best for locating segments in context and navigating translated content quickly.

You can use it to find where a segment appears in the document and move between the preview and the editor while reviewing translations.

Interactive preview is available for:

For DOCX files, page headers and footers are not shown in the interactive preview. This means that text placed in Word page headers or footers may not appear in the preview, even though the translatable segments themselves are not affected.

If your document contains meaningful content in page headers or footers, use the static preview to check the full document rendering.

Static preview is best when you need a more faithful and complete rendering of the source layout.

Use static preview when:

Static preview includes page headers and footers for DOCX files and preserves the document layout and structure more accurately than the editor view. However, it uses a default system font instead of the original fonts.

Static preview is available for:

The static preview needs to be regenerated after making changes to translations. If it becomes outdated, a banner appears prompting you to refresh it.

The top area of the editor provides project-level tools and status information. From there, you can monitor translation and review progress across the project. Click the Approved segments dropdown to open the Statistics panel.

The Statistics dropdown shows progress for each target language of the whole project, including:

The Filters menu helps you narrow down the segment list.

You can filter segments by criteria such as:

For example, you can show only segments that are:

This is especially useful when reviewing large documents or focusing on assigned work.

You can use the search field at the top of the Editor to find specific text segments.

Search helps you quickly locate:

This is useful when working with longer documents or verifying repeated terms.

You can add new target languages directly from the editor by clicking Add a language:

Once a new language is added, Vantage automatically starts translating the content into that language. If the project uses the AI + human review workflow, Vantage may also create a review task for the newly added language.