| Pages in topic: [1 2] > | Working with "Windows Excel" Thread poster: Francesco Damiani
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It is difficult working with "Windows Excel"?
I read a job offer in which I need this software, but to avoid offering something I can't achieve, I'd know understand more furtherly....
Thank you very much.
Francesco
| | | | esperantisto 
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SITE LOCALIZER | There is no "Windows Excel" | Sep 13, 2007 |
Probably, you mean Microsoft Office Excel? No, it is not difficult working with it. But you should be more precise on what you want to know.
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| MS Office Excel | Sep 13, 2007 |
If you already have Word and MS Office on your computer, you probably also have Excel too.
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Yes,I have "Excel" but my aim is understand more furtherly what is "Windows Excel".
Working with "Word" is an habit for me, even if I find to translate more and more with files HTML. I already said I've fear to promise something I'm not able to do.
Thank you again
Francesco
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| Use your normal CAT or copy to Word. | Sep 13, 2007 |
Do you translate with Trados or Wordfast? In that case you can translate the file in tageditor as normal with Trados, or in Word with Wordfast.
You can also copy the cells to Word and paste them after finishing the translation. Should usually not be a problem.
| | | | Margreet Logmans (X)
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| Help file? Tutorial? | Sep 13, 2007 |
As with all Microsoft Windows software, Excel comes with a help file too.
Open the programme, fool around, read the help file. Maybe they've even got a tutorial.
If you know how to work with other MS Office tools, Excel should not be a problem.
It is, by the way, a spreadsheet/database programme.
Good luck.
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Hi Francesco,
Excel is a fairly straight-forward programme to learn. I hadn't used it that much until about three years ago and now I use it quite a bit for compiling/storing glossaries and general business admin. If you google "Excel tutorial", you can find plenty of good sites that can help you learn how to use it. Really, it's just a case of opening the programme and playing around with it, also, as Margreet mentioned earlier, the help files are extremely useful too.
<... See more Hi Francesco,
Excel is a fairly straight-forward programme to learn. I hadn't used it that much until about three years ago and now I use it quite a bit for compiling/storing glossaries and general business admin. If you google "Excel tutorial", you can find plenty of good sites that can help you learn how to use it. Really, it's just a case of opening the programme and playing around with it, also, as Margreet mentioned earlier, the help files are extremely useful too.
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| | | | | Ask the customer/agency | Sep 13, 2007 |
Ask your customer/agency what is exactly expected of you. Some of them use Excel in a very straightforward way: they provide the sentences or paragraphs to translate in one column and you have to write each translation in the next column (so that they know exactly which is the translation for each paragraph). This is very simple, and you only need the ability to type (as in Word) and to switch from one cell to the other (which you can do by using the arrows in your keyboard or by using the mouse... See more Ask your customer/agency what is exactly expected of you. Some of them use Excel in a very straightforward way: they provide the sentences or paragraphs to translate in one column and you have to write each translation in the next column (so that they know exactly which is the translation for each paragraph). This is very simple, and you only need the ability to type (as in Word) and to switch from one cell to the other (which you can do by using the arrows in your keyboard or by using the mouse).
Other projects may need a more advanced use of Excel but in any case, as Caroline pointed out, it's not a terribly complex problem to learn.
Regards,
Eva ▲ Collapse
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Luisa Fiorini
Italy
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| MS Office Excel | Sep 13, 2007 |
Francesco Damiani wrote:
Yes,I have "Excel" but my aim is understand more furtherly what is "Windows Excel".
As the other colleagues told you, Windows Excel does not exist. Maybe your client was referring to Microsoft Office Excel. If you have Word, you certainly have Excel too.
| | | | Steven Capsuto
United States
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| It's a legitimate, meaningful term | Sep 13, 2007 |
I believe this is a reference to the Windows version of Excel as distinct from the Mac version. (If memory serves, the Mac version came first.)
It's more common to call it "Excel for Windows" but I've heard people make the "Windows Excel" versus "Mac Excel" distinction, particularly when I was working in IT.
These days it hardly matters which version you use, at least with most Western alphabets. But using the wrong version with Cyrillic, for instance, may cause problem... See more I believe this is a reference to the Windows version of Excel as distinct from the Mac version. (If memory serves, the Mac version came first.)
It's more common to call it "Excel for Windows" but I've heard people make the "Windows Excel" versus "Mac Excel" distinction, particularly when I was working in IT.
These days it hardly matters which version you use, at least with most Western alphabets. But using the wrong version with Cyrillic, for instance, may cause problems, especially with older operating systems and/or older releases of Excel.
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| | | | Oliver Walter
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| Word without Excel is possible | Sep 13, 2007 |
Luisa Fiorini wrote:
If you have Word, you certainly have Excel too.
That is probable but not certain: there is a Microsoft office (not "Office") product called "Works suite" which includes the Word word processor but has a simpler spreadsheet that is not Excel.
Oliver
| | | | Steven Capsuto
United States
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| Yes, they are (or were) sold separately | Sep 14, 2007 |
I bought Word 2003 and Excel 2003 as stand-alone apps. You don't have to buy the whole Office suite.
[Edited at 2007-09-14 01:46]
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| Yes, but........ | Sep 14, 2007 |
At present I answered to this job offer.........I don't want take a risk, but perhaps it is possible to solve out this problem(?)...
I was worry becuse I don't want take a risk, say "Yes" and understand this "Windows Excel" isn't at my disposal in my computer. But perhaps by using "Word" I can work.Thank you very much to everybody!
Francesco
| | | | Ralf Lemster
Germany
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| Compliance with job requirements | Sep 14, 2007 |
Hi Francesco,
I was worry becuse I don't want take a risk, say "Yes" and understand this "Windows Excel" isn't at my disposal in my computer. But perhaps by using "Word" I can work.
Don't you think there's a reason why Microsoft Excel is required? It is possible to use Word as a workaround - but I fail to see how you're going to manage that if you don't know the required software in the first place.
To me, accepting a job with requirements you cannot meet sounds like a recipe for getting into trouble...
Best regards,
Ralf
| | | | | Why use Excel at all? | Sep 15, 2007 |
Francesco Damiani wrote:
At present I answered to this job offer.........I don't want take a risk, but perhaps it is possible to solve out this problem(?)...
I was worry becuse I don't want take a risk, say "Yes" and understand this "Windows Excel" isn't at my disposal in my computer. But perhaps by using "Word" I can work.Thank you very much to everybody!
Francesco
If you have Trados, you can use the Tageditor to translate the Excel file - I do not believe that you need Excel at all for that purpose.
However, if you want to check, please e-mail me with your e-mail and I'll send a sample text in Excel so that you can try it out...
bests
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