How to translate links - Word 2003 Thread poster: Evangelia Mouma
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Hello,
I have a Word document with a section that contains the titles of other sections and these titles appear as links (when I put the mouse on them they show the "CTRL + click to follow link" message). The whole section gets grey when I start translating. I tried deleting the title and write its translation but I lose the link function. If I translate letter by letter I cannot delete the final original letter: when I delete it the whole line gets deleted. I also tried "Removing h... See more Hello,
I have a Word document with a section that contains the titles of other sections and these titles appear as links (when I put the mouse on them they show the "CTRL + click to follow link" message). The whole section gets grey when I start translating. I tried deleting the title and write its translation but I lose the link function. If I translate letter by letter I cannot delete the final original letter: when I delete it the whole line gets deleted. I also tried "Removing hyperlink" (highlight the title and right-click to get the drop-down menu), but I do not get the "Remove Hyperlink" in this drop-down menu.
Any more clever ideas?
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Zhoudan 
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This is TOC (table of content). You don't need to translate it. Just translate the "main body' and when the whole piece is done and finalized, go to the TOC, right click "update field code' (something like that) and the TOC will become "translated". Don't try to manually change anything in the TOC.
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| Right-click ... | Mar 6, 2008 |
Hello Evangelia,
try to position the mouse cursor on the link and right click. You should see a list containing, among the things, the command 'Edit the hyperlink', or something similar. (I am using the Italian version). If you choose this, you should be able to access a window containing, among the things, 'Text to be displayed', or similar, where you can translate the text portion into your destination language.
It's really troublesome, as it affects productivity, but I don't know... See more Hello Evangelia,
try to position the mouse cursor on the link and right click. You should see a list containing, among the things, the command 'Edit the hyperlink', or something similar. (I am using the Italian version). If you choose this, you should be able to access a window containing, among the things, 'Text to be displayed', or similar, where you can translate the text portion into your destination language.
It's really troublesome, as it affects productivity, but I don't know any quicker solution.
HTH
Evangelia Mouma wrote:
Hello,
I have a Word document with a section that contains the titles of other sections and these titles appear as links (when I put the mouse on them they show the "CTRL + click to follow link" message). The whole section gets grey when I start translating. I tried deleting the title and write its translation but I lose the link function. If I translate letter by letter I cannot delete the final original letter: when I delete it the whole line gets deleted. I also tried "Removing hyperlink" (highlight the title and right-click to get the drop-down menu), but I do not get the "Remove Hyperlink" in this drop-down menu.
Any more clever ideas?
Thanks! ▲ Collapse
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Evangelia Mouma
Greece
Local time: 14:46
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Yes, when I right-click "update field" I get my translations. The size is different but this is easily fixed.
Thank you Zhoudan, thank you Maurizio for your time and advice.
Regards
Evangelia
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PAS
Local time: 15:46
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| Some more information | Mar 6, 2008 |
It's not always the table of contents. You also have heading references, table references and drawing references in the text.
You do not need to translate the grey field. When you translate the actual heading, you can then update the field that refers to the heading by pressing the F9 key (function buttons on top of your keyboard).
Unfortunately, there is no way to do this automatically for the whole document, as with the table ... See more It's not always the table of contents. You also have heading references, table references and drawing references in the text.
You do not need to translate the grey field. When you translate the actual heading, you can then update the field that refers to the heading by pressing the F9 key (function buttons on top of your keyboard).
Unfortunately, there is no way to do this automatically for the whole document, as with the table of contents.
There is also a caveat for languages with declinations, because the field updates to whatever is written as the reference and if the field is in the middle of a sentence, it may update so that the grammar will be incorrect.
I hope this is clear
Pawel Skalinski ▲ Collapse
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| One more tip about fields | Mar 6, 2008 |
Hi,
You can set Word to always display fields on a grey background, so that you can recognize them at first sight. I find this option very useful since it avoids tampering with fields when using Trados or similar CAT tools - generally fields are not to be translated as they contain contents taken from other places in the file.
Go to Tools > Options > Display tab and choose AlwaysTools > Options > Display tab and choose Always in the Fields with frame box (I don't know the exact wording in English, sorry).
In Word 2007, this option is found in the Advanced options, in the "Display document contents" section (again not the exact English wording...).
IIRC, you can update all the fields in one go by right-clicking on any field and choosing "Update fields" or by selecting the whole text (Ctrl-A) then F9.
HTH
Marie-Céline ▲ Collapse
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Evangelia Mouma
Greece
Local time: 14:46
English to Greek
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TOPIC STARTER
Many thanks Pawel and Marie-Céline for your invaluable tips.
These are very helpful functions indeed!
Have a nice evening
Evangelia
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