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Translating footers, headers and comments with WB and T-window for Excel
Thread poster: Yazmin Osoyo
Yazmin Osoyo
Yazmin Osoyo  Identity Verified
Mexico
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English to Spanish
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Oct 20, 2002

I followed the instructions for translating comments and used the T-window for Clipboard... however, this resulted in a waste of time, it did not paste into the excel file, did not register into the TM and after I closed it all the translated text was lost!



As for word, everytime I translate a header and footer, page number or any type of active fields a marker or delimiter appears

Can someone explain how to handle this?
 
Daniel Meier
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Not sure, but maybe... Oct 20, 2002

Of course I am not sure, but maybe you actually did not look into the target files and so the translation seemed to be lost. When you open an Excel file to translate, T-Window for Excel by default creates a new file in the same directory with the \"extension\" filename_translated.xls. Provided you have saved every segment into the TM and did not choose another file name or directory, you should find your translation in this file.

As for T-Window for Clipboard, you have to save the segm... See more
Of course I am not sure, but maybe you actually did not look into the target files and so the translation seemed to be lost. When you open an Excel file to translate, T-Window for Excel by default creates a new file in the same directory with the \"extension\" filename_translated.xls. Provided you have saved every segment into the TM and did not choose another file name or directory, you should find your translation in this file.

As for T-Window for Clipboard, you have to save the segment into the TM and then copy the translated target segment (menu: Tools/Copy target) and manually put it into the file you are translating. However your TM should contain every segment, which was saved into it, which applies also to T-Window for clipboard.

If this does not solve your problem, maybe you could describe it more in detail. ▲ Collapse
 
Ralf Lemster
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Germany
Local time: 09:11
English to German
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More info, please... Oct 20, 2002

Regarding your Excel issue: the header of your message refers to T-Window for Excel, whereas your post refers to T-Window for Clipboard. Did you attempt to use both at the same time?



Re your Word problem: did you try to translate fields (such as cross-references, for example)? Perhaps you could describe an example of where your problem occurred - TBH I\'m not too sure what the problem is.
 


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