Tag soup with ODT/DOC file, upper case is "all-caps" Thread poster: Sarah Gregg
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Hello everyone. I've just received a long odt file to translate with SDL Trados 2017. When I import it into Trados, I find that every capital letter, including at the start of every sentence, has an "all-caps" tag, which makes the whole thing a delirium as it is FULL of proper names. I've tried saving it in various versions of Word etc, but nothing makes any difference. Deleting all formatting and saving as txt would be a big problem as it is also full of italic and bold text. Short of going thr... See more Hello everyone. I've just received a long odt file to translate with SDL Trados 2017. When I import it into Trados, I find that every capital letter, including at the start of every sentence, has an "all-caps" tag, which makes the whole thing a delirium as it is FULL of proper names. I've tried saving it in various versions of Word etc, but nothing makes any difference. Deleting all formatting and saving as txt would be a big problem as it is also full of italic and bold text. Short of going through every capital letter and reformatting it, I just don't know what to do. Can anyone help? ▲ Collapse | | | Lianne van de Ven United States Local time: 04:02 Member (2008) English to Dutch + ...
Try (buy for a small fee) a word addon called Codezapper. It will not damage the word file but remove redundant code. I always use it. | | | Nina Esser Germany Local time: 09:02 English to German
I think there is an option in Studio to import RTFs converted from PDFs, which removes superfluous formatting tags. Perhaps also you all caps tags? | | | Try a different font | Apr 14, 2017 |
It works with xliff files derived from powerpoint files. If you have only one type of fonts (e.g. all Arial), you can change the font of the entire text into another font like TNR and then change it back to the original font. It saved me a lot of time with the ppt, pptx files. | |
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This is news for me. | Apr 14, 2017 |
Lianne van de Ven wrote: Try (buy for a small fee) a word addon called Codezapper. It will not damage the word file but remove redundant code. I always use it. I will learn more about this. Thank you. | | | Use Document Cleaner | Apr 14, 2017 |
Hello Elif, You should try Document Cleaner (http://www.translatortools.net/word-doccleaner.html), a free tool for preparation of badly formatted Word documents. Cleaning tags from Word documents is very easy: open the document, activate Document Cleaner from the ribbon, and click Clean Tags button under Tag Cleaner tab. Document Cleaner is part of TransTools for Word ad... See more Hello Elif, You should try Document Cleaner (http://www.translatortools.net/word-doccleaner.html), a free tool for preparation of badly formatted Word documents. Cleaning tags from Word documents is very easy: open the document, activate Document Cleaner from the ribbon, and click Clean Tags button under Tag Cleaner tab. Document Cleaner is part of TransTools for Word add-in (http://www.translatortools.net/word-about.html) which integrates into Microsoft Word. Best regards, Stanislav Okhvat TransTools – Useful tools for every translator ▲ Collapse | | | Sarah Gregg Italy Local time: 09:02 Italian to English TOPIC STARTER Thanks for suggestions | Apr 14, 2017 |
Thanks for all your suggestions. Tomorrow I'll give them a try and let you know how I get on. | | | Sarah Gregg Italy Local time: 09:02 Italian to English TOPIC STARTER
I think best at 5.00 in the morning and I resolved the problem in a flash, with the most obvious solution possible. In Word, I simply used the find and replace formatting function to change all the "all-caps" to normal upper case text. Worked perfectly! I've also downloaded TransTools and will be giving it a try when I have a quiet moment, looks really great. Thanks again to you all for your suggestions and have a great Easter (mine will be spent diligently at work). | | | To report site rules violations or get help, contact a site moderator: You can also contact site staff by submitting a support request » Tag soup with ODT/DOC file, upper case is "all-caps" Wordfast Pro | Translation Memory Software for Any Platform
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