Wordfast Training – Level 2

• Place: Infotique, 12, rue Saint-Sabin, 75011 Paris

• Dates: January 18-19, 2008 (9:00 am – 5:00 pm)

• Price: €285 or €360 (FIF-PL, DIF)

• Number of participants: maximum of 10

• Required experience: working knowledge of MS Word

• Trainer: John Di Rico, Apex Traduction

The first day will be devoted to optimizing translation memory and glossary management and using the BTM, VLTM, and MT to speed up your workflow. The second day will focus on handling specific file types including: HTML, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF, and faxes. We'll also look at other software applications that complement Wordfast (PlusTools, Werecat, Olifant, Intelliwebsearch). Time permitting and depending on trainee needs, we'll learn how to create a translation memory from past translations using the alignment function of PlusTools.

The Infotique IT room has 8 workstations running on a French version of Windows XP with MS Office. You are welcome to bring your own laptop if you have one.

Note: For French participants, please contact the trainer if you would like to use your annual government-sponsored training stipend to pay for the training (FIF-PL, DIF). An administrative fee will be charged for handling these cases.

Payment

Please register by clicking on the "Sign in" box to the right. Your status will be set to "registered"

After you have registered, please contact the Trainer at:

Apex Traduction
374 Ch de la Lauzière
06670 St Blaise
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 registration materials.

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

If you have any questions, please contact the Training Coordinator at leonardo at proz.com

Program:

Day 1

09:00 - 12:10

Quality control functions:

Preview, typo functions, spelling or grammar correction functions, respecting untranslatable elements

The Tools tab in Wordfast:

Cleanup, Analyze, Quality-Check, Translate, Extract

Pricing strategies using analyze

Translation memory management (TM):

Attributes: preview, personalizing, database organization
Penalties: preview, personalizing.
Translation memory rule (“TM rules”)

Big momma vs. client-specific vs. subject-specific translation memories

TM Editor:

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

BREAK for Lunch

13:40 - 16:50

Background translation memory (BTM):

Preview, use

Very large translation memory (VLTM):

Sharing a TM with other translators around the world

Workflow management

Machine Translation (MT):

Using Google Translate or Babelfish on short segments

Terminology management:

Using “Fields 1, 2, and 3” of the glossary, creating a blacklist

Glossary editor:

Practice using filters, practice sorting using special filters: reverse source and target

16:50 - 17:00

Questions

Day 2

09:00 - 12:10

Personalizing placeables, how to manage fields, hyperlinks, e-mail addresses, URL’s, bookmarks

Reference searches:

Context search: personalizing and strategies

Reference search: personalizing and strategies

Links to external references:

Intelliwebsearch

Translating Excel and PowerPoint files

Using Werecat for PPT and textboxes

BREAK for Lunch

13:40 - 16:50

Translating HTML files

HTML basics

Handling PDF files and faxes

Converting with PlusTools or Abbyy Finereader

Alignment with PlusTools

Creating TMs from past translations

Pandora's Box

Customizing Wordfast

16:50 - 17:00

Evaluations