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title: Matecat in 5 steps
description: "Master Matecat in just 5 steps: Create, analyze, and manage translation projects effortlessly. Discover how to use translation memories and machine translation, outsource work, and revise translations with ease."
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# Matecat in 5 steps

### **1. Create your translation project**

Creating translation projects in Matecat is incredibly easy:

![Screenshot 2026-03-25 104616](https://guides.matecat.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Screenshot%202026-03-25%20104616.png?width=670&height=296&name=Screenshot%202026-03-25%20104616.png)

1. Open [www.matecat.com](https://www.matecat.com/)
2. [**Sign in** to your account or **sign up** if you don’t have an account yet](https://guides.matecat.com/login?hsLang=en)
3. Choose the language pair(s) for your translation
4. [Create a new translation memory ("TM") or select an existing one, if you need to keep your translation **private**](https://guides.matecat.com/importing/exporting?hsLang=en)
5. [Select the machine translation engine you prefer](https://guides.matecat.com/machine-translation-engines?hsLang=en)
6. Upload the file(s) to translate in any of the 80+ [supported formats](https://guides.matecat.com/supported-formats-and-languages?hsLang=en) 

### **2. Analyze your project**

After uploading your files, click “Analyze” to create the project and obtain its weighted word count.

![analyze screen 5 steps](https://guides.matecat.com/hs-fs/hubfs/analyze%20screen%205%20steps.png?width=670&height=298&name=analyze%20screen%205%20steps.png)

Matecat finds more matches than any other CAT tool by matching the content of your files with the Public TM (if added), containing over 12 billion matches, your Private TM (if added) and by using Machine Translation (if enabled).

### **3. Translate or Outsource**

After clicking on “Analyze”, you can:

![Schermata 2025-11-03 alle 12.05.07](https://guides.matecat.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Schermata%202025-11-03%20alle%2012.05.07.png?width=670&height=289&name=Schermata%202025-11-03%20alle%2012.05.07.png)

- Click on **“Translate**” toaccess the editor and **translate** the project for **free**.
- Click on **“**Buy Translation”to open the [**outsource**](https://guides.matecat.com/outsourcing-to-translated-with-matecat-how-it-works?hsLang=en) panel and have [Translated](http://www.translated.net/) perform the translation for you.

![Schermata 2025-11-03 alle 12.09.12](https://guides.matecat.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Schermata%202025-11-03%20alle%2012.09.12.png?width=670&height=258&name=Schermata%202025-11-03%20alle%2012.09.12.png)

### 4. Translate your file(s)

- If you want to translate the job yourself, click “Translate” in the analysis page to open the editor.
- The source text is shown on the left of the screen, while the target text is shown on the right. Based on the settings chosen during creation, Matecat will populate the target section of each segment with TM matches, MT suggestions or leave it empty.
- Edit the target section to enter the desired translation, then click on “Translated*”* to confirm the segment; the bar on the right will turn blue to confirm that the translation is saved, and the translation will be stored in the TM for future use and for MT adaptability.

![segmento 1 5 steps](https://guides.matecat.com/hs-fs/hubfs/segmento%201%205%20steps.png?width=625&height=288&name=segmento%201%205%20steps.png)

- Once all the segments have been confirmed, the translation is complete; download your translation by clicking on the “Download”button in the top right corner of the screen.

### **![](https://guides.matecat.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Schermata%202025-10-23%20alle%2017-19-57-png.png?width=497&height=306&name=Schermata%202025-10-23%20alle%2017-19-57-png.png)**

### **5. Revise a translation (optional)**

To revise a translation:

- From the translation editor, click the three vertical dots in the top bar and choose “Revise”to open the link for revision. You can revise the translation yourself, or have somebody else revise it: you just have to send them the link to the revision.

![segmento 2 5 steps](https://guides.matecat.com/hs-fs/hubfs/segmento%202%205%20steps.png?width=670&height=321&name=segmento%202%205%20steps.png)

- For each segment: 
    - If you think that the translation is already perfect, just click on “Approved”.
    - If you think that the translation needs correction, apply the necessary edits, mark the issues you’ve found and then click on “Approved”.

![segmento 3 5 steps](https://guides.matecat.com/hs-fs/hubfs/segmento%203%205%20steps.png?width=670&height=244&name=segmento%203%205%20steps.png)

[When the revision is over, click the “QR” button in the top bar to access the quality report to see the EPT score calculated for the job and a rundown of the issues found in the job.](https://guides.matecat.com/quality-report-in-matecat?hsLang=en)

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