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Poll: How many monitors do you actively use in your translation workspace? | Focus length

Samuel Murray — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 08:22:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: How many monitors do you actively use in your translation workspace?
Poster: Samuel Murray
Post title: Focus length

[quote]CafeTran Trainer wrote:
Some translators prefer a vertical arrangement. Especially for the combination laptop + external screen.[/quote]
I've tried it with one monitor slightly in front of the other monitor, but the second monitor is closer to my eyes, which means that I have to refocus every time I switch to a different monitor, and that makes my eyes tired.

I would not be able to work with the setup that you show in the picture, because I prefer to look straight and slightly down, not up, when I work. Indeed, this was something that I considered when buying a new monitor: whether the monitor can move down all the way to the desk.

Poll: How many monitors do you actively use in your translation workspace? | Up and down

CafeTran Trainer — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 07:48:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: How many monitors do you actively use in your translation workspace?
Poster: CafeTran Trainer
Post title: Up and down

[quote]Samuel Murray wrote:

I tried it with two, but that involves moving my head from side to side by too much for it to have any benefit over just using the taskbar properly. [/quote]

Some translators prefer a vertical arrangement. Especially for the combination laptop + external screen.

Or, to keep both screens more or less at the same vertical line:

[Edited at 2026-06-16 08:45 GMT]

Poll: How many monitors do you actively use in your translation workspace? | @Maria

Samuel Murray — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 07:12:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: How many monitors do you actively use in your translation workspace?
Poster: Samuel Murray
Post title: @Maria

[quote]Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida wrote:
I only have one and no place to fit another. [/quote]
Same. My desk is such a mess that even though I have a portable little extra monitor, I wouldn't be able to put it anywhere.

Poll: How many monitors do you actively use in your translation workspace? | Just one

Samuel Murray — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 07:10:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: How many monitors do you actively use in your translation workspace?
Poster: Samuel Murray
Post title: Just one

I tried it with two, but that involves moving my head from side to side by too much for it to have any benefit over just using the taskbar properly. That said, I do have a relatively nice wide monitor (2560x1440, 27 inch). My daughter uses two (gaming and chatting) and my son uses three (gaming, chatting and school work).

Poll: How many monitors do you actively use in your translation workspace? | It depends on how well they communicate via that channel

Gary Smith Lawson — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 06:50:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: How many monitors do you actively use in your translation workspace?
Poster: Gary Smith Lawson
Post title: It depends on how well they communicate via that channel

I love
those clients
who write
two or three
words at a time
on Whatsapp
and hit "Send".
Your phone
keeps beeping
every two seconds.
They sound
like Christopher Walken.

Poll: How many monitors do you actively use in your translation workspace? | Two

CafeTran Trainer — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 20:24:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: How many monitors do you actively use in your translation workspace?
Poster: CafeTran Trainer
Post title: Two

Two screens, but on the primary screen I use seven spaces (virtual screens).

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[Edited at 2026-06-15 05:11 GMT]

Poll: How many monitors do you actively use in your translation workspace? | I used to use 2

WolfgangS — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 16:41:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: How many monitors do you actively use in your translation workspace?
Poster: WolfgangS
Post title: I used to use 2

But got a 43" monitor now, so it's one only.

Poll: How many monitors do you actively use in your translation workspace? | It depends...

Josephine Cassar — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 13:49:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: How many monitors do you actively use in your translation workspace?
Poster: Josephine Cassar
Post title: It depends...

It depends. If I'm using a CAT tool or Cloud I only need 1 screen so I use my 15.6 PC screen but if I'm checking numbers especially, I like to use 2 screens so I check the source and target without needing to minimise and reload and find that I work better like that as I easily miss things like that.

Poll: How many monitors do you actively use in your translation workspace? | Just one!

Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 12:14:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: How many monitors do you actively use in your translation workspace?
Poster: Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Post title: Just one!

As I said before (similar question), the ideal would be two, but I only have one and no place to fit another. So, maybe the day I'll move to a bigger place...

Poll: How many monitors do you actively use in your translation workspace? | Three

Alex Lichanow — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 09:54:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: How many monitors do you actively use in your translation workspace?
Poster: Alex Lichanow
Post title: Three

One monitor for my translation tool, one for my browser and e-mail client and the tiny 17-inch laptop thing for Tidal :)

Poll: How many monitors do you actively use in your translation workspace?

ProZ.com Staff — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 08:10:04 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: How many monitors do you actively use in your translation workspace?
Poster: ProZ.com Staff

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