Wordfast for Beginners, Level 1

o Place: ARAPL, 22 avenue Georges Clemenceau, Nice

o Dates: February 14-15, 2008 (9:00 am – 5:00 pm)

o Price: €275 or €350 (FIF-PL, DIF); Discount rates at several hotels!

o Number of participants: maximum of 10

o Required experience: working knowledge of MS Word

o Trainer: John Di Rico, Apex Traduction

The first day will be devoted to setting up and using the general features of Wordfast. The second day will focus on glossaries, translation memory management, and references. Time permitting, we'll learn how to create a translation memory from past translations using the alignment function of PlusTools.

The ARAPL IT room has 10 workstations running on Windows XP with MS Office 2003. However, you may bring your own laptop if you have one.

Note for participants based in France: A €75 administrative fee will be charged if you would like to use your annual government-sponsored training stipend to pay for the training (FIF-PL, DIF).

Note: Trainees who have paid for and received a training session of at least one full day are eligible to a discount (over 25%) on a Wordfast license they buy for themselves.

After you have registered, please contact the Trainer at

Apex Traduction

374 Ch de la Lauzière

06670 St Blaise

06300 Nice

Tel : +33 4 93 89 05 57

Skype: jmdirico

jmdirico at apextra.net

www.apextra.net

He will provide you with payment details (wire transfer, check, etc.) and a training contract (FIF-PL, DIF).

After your payment is received, your status will be changed to ¨registered and paid¨ and your spot for the session will be secured.

Program:

Day 1

09:00 -12:10

Why use CAT tools?

Segmentation, Translation Memory, additional functions, getting started with Wordfast, where and what to download

First translation session:

How to create a translation memory (TM), description of an open segment, protecting delimiters, closing a translation session, resuming a translation session, return to the previous segment, cancel a segment, force segmentation, copy the source segment, expand/shrink segments, provisional segments, revising a segmented document

BREAK for Lunch

13:40 -16:50

Cleaning up your document after translating:

Usual option (“Tools” tab in the WF interface) - clean-up report, simple option (“Quick-clean” icon in the Wordfast toolbar), creating a report folder

Analysis functions:

Preview, analyze a document, understand the results of an analysis

Handling placeables:

Preview, selecting placeables, copying placeables, personalizing placeables

Terminology management:

Preview, glossaries, creating a glossary, opening an existing glossary, using a glossary, insert the target word where the cursor is located, open the glossary editor with a word selected, open a glossary scroll-down toolbar

Glossary editor:

Preview, import terminology, glossary editor shortcuts and methods, the Open button, the Tools button, exercises

16:50 – 17:00

Q&A

Day 2

09:00 -12:10

Day 1 review and case studies

Translation memory management (TM):

Attributes: preview, personalizing

TM Editor:

Practice using filters, practice sorting using special filters: merging memories, marking redundant entries, reverse source and target, rewriting in Unicode

Translation memory management (TM):

Preview, create and select a translation memory, import a TMX translation memory

Translation memory editor:

Optimizing TM’s, background translation memory (BTM)

BREAK for Lunch

13:40 -16:50

Terminology management:

Personalizing fuzzy terminology recognition, using “Fields 1, 2, and 3” of the glossary

Glossary editor:

Practice using special filters: reverse source and target, rewriting in Unicode, etc.

Reference searches:

Context search: personalizing and strategies

Reference search: personalizing and strategies

Alignment using PlusTools

16:50 – 17:00

Evaluations