While a translator is working on an assignment, he/she can have a Computer-Assisted Translation (CAT) software open to record his/her progress and generate a Translation Memory that can be used time and time again in order to find matches and repetitions among past, present, and future files. In other words, a translator never has to translate the same sentence twice, because his/her translation is recorded in a database and then recalled by the CAT tool when that same sentence is found on a new source material. Additionally, CAT tools can also offer a word count report that allows translators to give clients a very detailed quote on upcoming assignments.