Marking text as non-translatable in Word/Excel Thread poster: Jorgen1977
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Jorgen1977
Local time: 05:59
English to Norwegian (Bokmal)
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I sometimes receive Word files where parts of the file will be skipped without no further ado when I try to translate it with Trados. I've never asked the clients how they do that out of fear of coming across as inexperienced/unprofessional (had they only known lol), does someone here know? It's possible that I've only seen it when there's a table in the .doc file, not sure. And is it also possible in Excel? I normally use TadEditor for translations, by the way.
I have Trados 2007 a... See more I sometimes receive Word files where parts of the file will be skipped without no further ado when I try to translate it with Trados. I've never asked the clients how they do that out of fear of coming across as inexperienced/unprofessional (had they only known lol), does someone here know? It's possible that I've only seen it when there's a table in the .doc file, not sure. And is it also possible in Excel? I normally use TadEditor for translations, by the way.
I have Trados 2007 and Office 2003. ▲ Collapse
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In Word, look for style tw4winExternal and apply it to all parts you don't want translated. This of course alters the format of your document, and if you need to deliver exactly the same document with non-translatable parts in their original format you will have to keep a copy of the source document and replace the tw4winExternal-ised parts.
In Excel, you can simply hide the columns and rows you don't want translated.
| | | | Chunyi Chen
United States
Local time: 19:59
English to Chinese
| I can't figure out the part where you said | Sep 21, 2010 |
"In Word, look for style tw4winExternal and apply it to all parts you don't want translated. "
Where do I find that style in Word 2007 and how do I apply it to the text I want to skip translating?
One lady at SDL Support tried to teach me this by giving me detailed instructions but I was too embarrassed to admit that I have a hard time to process complicated procedures.
| | | | Adam Łobatiuk 
Poland
Local time: 04:59
Member (2009)
English to Polish
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| tw4winExternal | Sep 21, 2010 |
Chun-yi Chen wrote:
Where do I find that style in Word 2007 and how do I apply it to the text I want to skip translating?
I use Word 2003, but the general idea is the same.
If your document doesn't already contain the tw4winExternal style on the style list/pane/ribbon, open another document that does, select a portion of the text with that style, click the Format painter button, select a portion of the first document (that you want to apply the style to), and release the mouse button. Alternatively, just copy and paste a piece of text with the style - you can delete it later.
To apply the style (or any other style), select the text you want and then select the style name from the style list/ribbon/pane.
Hope that helps.
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| Where can I get doc with this style? | Sep 21, 2010 |
It sounds very easy but assumes that everyone has at least 1 document containing this style - could anyone suggest where such document could be found/downloaded from?
Best Regards
Stanislaw
| | | | Jaroslaw Michalak
Poland
Local time: 04:59
Member (2004)
English to Polish
SITE LOCALIZER | Run macro... | Sep 22, 2010 |
If you have Trados 2007 installed, then in Word you have its macros (installed with Trados8.dot template). Just run the macro sAddTagStyles and you will have all Trados styles needed, even in a new document.
| | | | | Working in TagEditor... | Sep 22, 2010 |
Jabberwock wrote:
If you have Trados 2007 installed, then in Word you have its macros (installed with Trados8.dot template). Just run the macro sAddTagStyles and you will have all Trados styles needed, even in a new document.
The same effect is achieved when you pretranslate the doc/rtf in Workbench, the styles are added automatically.
Jorgen1977 wrote:
I normally use TadEditor for translations, by the way.
So, in Word, simply apply the "hidden" formatting to the text you don't want to translate.
For Excel, it's similar, you should hide rows/columns you don't want to translate.
By default, the hidden rows/columns aren't processed (u can modify this behaviour in the Filter Settings application).
It's a quite primitive approach i.e. you can only skip entire rows/columns but it's enough for simple, well structured sheets (kinda "please, translate only the fifth column")
If you need a more flexible selection, you should take a look on DVX or, better, memoQ.
Cheers
GG
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