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Thread poster: Mihai Seucan
Mihai Seucan
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Oct 24

I received an excel file for proofreading a website, and it contains many html tags and placeholders. Client wants me to work in Trados, by importing excel file. Does anyone know how to convert those html tags and placeholders in tags in Trados? This way I can make sure no text from these html tags and placeholders is deleted.
This is the type of html tags and placeholders:
HTML tags:... See more
I received an excel file for proofreading a website, and it contains many html tags and placeholders. Client wants me to work in Trados, by importing excel file. Does anyone know how to convert those html tags and placeholders in tags in Trados? This way I can make sure no text from these html tags and placeholders is deleted.
This is the type of html tags and placeholders:
HTML tags: (e.g. , ,
)
placeholders: (e.g. {{name}}, %s)

[Edited at 2026-10-24 07:46 GMT] ▲ Collapse
 
Peter Motte
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Doesn't that happen automatically? Oct 24

Mihai Seucan wrote:

I received an excel file for proofreading a website, and it contains many html tags and placeholders. Client wants me to work in Trados, by importing excel file. Does anyone know how to convert those html tags and placeholders in tags in Trados? This way I can make sure no text from these html tags and placeholders is deleted.
This is the type of html tags and placeholders:
HTML tags: (e.g. , ,
)
placeholders: (e.g. {{name}}, %s)

[Edited at 2026-10-24 07:46 GMT]


Doesn't that happen automatically?
 
lexica_nova
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placeholders: (e.g. {{name}}, %s) should be kept unmodified Oct 25

They are used for some programmes to inject dynamic data at runtime or as variables so that dynamic values (like user names, dates, or counts) can be inserted into sentences.
 
Stanislaw Czech, MCIL CL
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Re: html tags and placeholders Nov 3

If the Excel file is imported with the standard Excel file type in Trados Studio, the tags and placeholders are not always recognised automatically. Check the file type settings: in Options > File Types > Microsoft Excel 2007-2019 you can enable the embedded content processor and add a regular-expression rule, for example {{.*?}} and %s, so they become protected inline tags. Once the file is imported, it is worth running a QA check on tags and placeholders before delivery, so nothing is lost or ... See more
If the Excel file is imported with the standard Excel file type in Trados Studio, the tags and placeholders are not always recognised automatically. Check the file type settings: in Options > File Types > Microsoft Excel 2007-2019 you can enable the embedded content processor and add a regular-expression rule, for example {{.*?}} and %s, so they become protected inline tags. Once the file is imported, it is worth running a QA check on tags and placeholders before delivery, so nothing is lost or altered in the proofread text. If the file type does not offer what you need, ask the client for the exact tag list or whether they have their own import configuration. ▲ Collapse
 


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