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French term or phrase:	XE magnétisme
English translation:	don't translate XE
Entered by:	Catharine Cellier-Smart

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20:26 Mar 20, 2011

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French term or phrase: XE magnétisme

This is in the middle of a Word doc translation from France talking about fashion design software and seems to be some kind of code since it's in curly brackets. I have translated the rest of the sentence, but I'm not sure what it refers to. This is the sentence:

Sélectionner le 1er échantillon coloris > Click gauche {XE "magnétisme"} {XE "symétrie} sur l'echantillon.

In the TM for this translation, "magnétisme" is translated either as "snap to" or "gravity" but it's never used in this way. It seems like "snap to" would work better in this context, but I'd like to understand what the XE and the brackets mean.

Any help would be much appreciated.

dianash KudoZ activity Questions: 27 (1 open) (2 without valid answers) Answers: 1 United States
Local time: 22:51

don't translate XE

Explanation:
{XE "xxxxx"} is a MS Word indexing command, and it's the same in English and French so I wouldn't translate it

see in French :
"{ XE "Texte" [Commutateurs ] }
Définit le texte et le numéro de page d'une entrée d'index."
http://office.microsoft.com/fr-be/word-help/codes-de-champ-c...

also http://theses.univ-lyon2.fr/?q=fr/node/35

see in English :
"The XE Field
The basic XE field in Microsoft word looks like this. To see them, make hidden text visible.
{XE "main heading:subheading:sub-subheading"}"
http://taxonomist.tripod.com/indexing/wordflags.html#XE

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Catharine Cellier-Smart
Local time: 09:51

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Thank you. I made a note to my client about it that I hadn't translated the index entry and that was fine.
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don't translate XE

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don't translate XE

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Thank you. I made a note to my client about it that I hadn't translated the index entry and that was fine.

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Mar 25, 2011 - Changes made by Catharine Cellier-Smart:
Edited KOG entry	dianash's old entry - "XE magnétisme" => "don\'t translate XE"

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