Can Trados 3 be used with Excel? Thread poster: Monika Coulson
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Monika Coulson 
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I am trying to use Trados to translate an Excel spreadsheet. I tried to load the spreadsheet in Word since I know that I can use Trados from there. However in the conversion much of the formatting and functions were destroyed so I need to stay in Excel to translate the spreadsheet. Is there a way to do this?
Thx in advance.
Monika
| | | | Jerzy Czopik
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| I´m afraid no | May 29, 2002 |
I used TRADOS 3 and could never translate directly within Excel.
First with TRADOS 5 comes a T-Window for Excel, so you don´t need to copy the tables into Word, which doesn´t work everytime.
If you upgrade to Trados 5.5, you are entitled to freely download the T-Window collection with some other T-Windows for less common applications.
The T-Window for Excel works fine, but if there are text-boxes within Excel, they wont be translated. If the spreadsheet... See more I used TRADOS 3 and could never translate directly within Excel.
First with TRADOS 5 comes a T-Window for Excel, so you don´t need to copy the tables into Word, which doesn´t work everytime.
If you upgrade to Trados 5.5, you are entitled to freely download the T-Window collection with some other T-Windows for less common applications.
The T-Window for Excel works fine, but if there are text-boxes within Excel, they wont be translated. If the spreadsheet is gathering data from another table or other program, this cells won´t be translated too.
But you have no chance to translate Excel directly with TRADOS 3. And if you plan to upgrade to Office XP, you will need to upgrade to TRADOS 5.5, because this is the only Trados release supporting Office XP.
Kind regards
Jerzy ▲ Collapse
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Germany
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| Excel <--> Word | May 29, 2002 |
Hello,
sometimes it is possible to copy the tbale of excel to winword.
Maybe it is easier to correct the layout problems after recopying than translate without Trados
Opening Excel files in Winword is always a bad way, becaus winword will destroy too many layout information.
Hans
| | | | | No, you cannot - Cut & paste from Excel to Winword | May 29, 2002 |
as the colleague pointed out. Maybe this advice is stupid, maybe not. I don\'t know how you \"loaded\" the xls file in winword - What I do usually is just an Edit>Select all >Copy from Excel and a paste in a word document. That should preserve your formatting more than if you opened the xls file directly from Winword.
Hope it helps.
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Jerzy Czopik
Germany
Local time: 19:40
Member (2003)
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| Copy and paste won´t work every time | May 29, 2002 |
Since the formulas and formating are going lost - so far my experience.
TRADOS 5.5 is a big improvement.
Go fo promotion now - TRADOS is selling it cheaper yet.
Jerzy
| | | | Ralf Lemster
Germany
Local time: 19:40
English to German
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| Risk of truncation when using copy&paste | May 29, 2002 |
In principle, copying an Excel spreadsheet into Word is an alternative. However, if you\'re using Office 97, be aware that cells containing more than 256 characters will be truncated.
As Jerzy pointed out, the T-Window Collection in 5.0/5.5 is quite an enhancement.
| | | | Monika Coulson
Local time: 11:40
Member (2001)
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TOPIC STARTER SITE LOCALIZER | Thank you to all of you | May 30, 2002 |
Thank you for taking time to help me regarding this matter. I am thinking of upgrading my Trados now.
Monika
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