- 06 Aug 2024
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Change a word or phrase
- Updated on 06 Aug 2024
- 1 minute to read
The language editing interface allows you to easily change any word or phrase used within the site. For example, you may want to change the word 'Course' to 'Area'. When editing languages you can also check for untranslated words in specific areas of the system.
- Navigate to Quick-access menu > Localisation > Language customisation.
- Choose a language pack to change.
- Click Open language pack for editing.
- Once the language pack has loaded, click Continue.
- Complete the Filter strings form to locate the text you are looking for. See the Language filter strings page for details on the available filters.
- Select Show strings to show the component name where the string was found.
- Enter the new word or phrase in the Local customisation field.
- Select Apply changes and continue editing to make further changes, or click Save changes to the language pack to save all updates.
The Totara Academy has a course dedicated to Localisation in Totara. Here you can learn more on how to localise your system, see best practice, and give it a go yourself.