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| General technical issues | Punctuation problem with MS Word | @Tom | [quote]Tom in London wrote:
I hope the client
finds a way to get round this because otherwise it
may be too much hassle for him to continue giving
me work... [/quote]
Well, I recommend | Samuel Murray | Jun 22 | | ProZ.com suggestions | Outsourcers' complaints related to quality: should ProZ.com provide a means of arbitrating? | @Henry | [quote]Henry Dotterer wrote:
I'd say that we're
willing to explore this. What do other think?
[/quote]
Well, firstly, let's not forget that
not all businesses listed on the Blue Board | Samuel Murray | Jun 22 | | General technical issues | Punctuation problem with MS Word | Well, that is a known problem | [quote]Tom in London wrote:
Apparently it's not a
Word-to-Word problem but a Word-to-(publishing
software) problem. [/quote]
Yes, some DTP
programs have autocorrection enabled, and som | Samuel Murray | Jun 22 | | Office applications | Word 2016, do not delete space after word | Thanks, Gerard | [quote]Gerard de Noord wrote:
Maybe you'll find a
solution in:
File > Word Options > Advanced > Use
smart cut and paste > Settings [/quote]
Yup,
that solved it, thanks -- I just disab | Samuel Murray | Jun 22 | | Office applications | Word 2016, do not delete space after word | | Hello everyone
I'm moving from Word 2003 to
Word 2016 for tracked changes jobs. In Word 2003,
when I select a word (and only the word, not the
space following it), and I press "delete" | Samuel Murray | Jun 22 | | Office applications | How to find/replace bullet character in MS Word | Thanks, everyone | Thanks everyone, I'm glad this problem does not
exist in Word 2016. I was using Word 2003.
Pasting the exact character from e.g. a web site
did not help either. The odd thing is that th | Samuel Murray | Jun 22 | | CAT Tools Technical Help | In search for an app for quick translations | Always on vs on demand | [quote]Hans Lenting wrote:
[quote]Thaís Campos
wrote:
I was wandering if there is some app like
T-Window for clipboard that uses TMX memories.
[/quote]
See:
https://cafetran.freshd | Samuel Murray | Jun 22 | | Office applications | How to find/replace bullet character in MS Word | @Tom | [quote]Tom in London wrote:
Let me know if it
works. I've never actually tried it...
[/quote]
I tried this, just to let you know,
but this is only going to work if the bullet is in
| Samuel Murray | Jun 21 | | Office applications | How to find/replace bullet character in MS Word | | Hello everyone
I have an MS Word file that
contains this
character:
https://www.fileformat.info/info/unico
de/char/2022/index.htm
I need to highlight all
such characters, so I n | Samuel Murray | Jun 21 | | Money matters | Warning about using PayPal | @Li | [quote]Li Yang wrote:
I had a very hard time
getting my payment through PayPal this week.
[/quote]
PayPal sometimes identifies something
suspicious in an account and then requires
| Samuel Murray | Jun 21 | | Smart shoppers | Time to ditch SDL Trados? | MemoQ web version | [quote]deutschenglisch wrote:
[quote]MollyRose
wrote:
Trados doesn't work on Mac. Apparently
MemoQ doesn't either.[/quote]
[The w]eb version
[of MemoQ] works on all platforms. [/quote] | Samuel Murray | Jun 19 | | Smart shoppers | Time to ditch SDL Trados? | Why really? | [quote]deutschenglisch wrote:
For me, these
include slow MT integration, still only a 32-bit
Windows version, lack of support for other OSs.
[/quote]
Lack of support for multiple OSes | Samuel Murray | Jun 18 | | ProZ.com suggestions | Add option to mark replies as "off-topic" | @Tom | [quote]Tom in London wrote:
Any topic can easily
generate a more wide-ranging discussion, sometimes
a valuable one. [/quote]
Yes, it's true that
some discussions "evolve" over time to | Samuel Murray | Jun 14 | | Site forums | Forum "agree" button released | @Nicholas | [quote]Nicholas Sahm wrote:
Along with the
"agree" button, we changed the action buttons for
edit, quote, and link. [/quote]
I suppose we
could get used to the mystery meat navigation< | Samuel Murray | Jun 14 | | ProZ.com suggestions | Add option to mark replies as "off-topic" | | Hello everyone (staff)
When starting a new
thread, there is a curious little option labelled
"This post is 'off-topic', ie. more play than
work". In my mind this ("more play than work" | Samuel Murray | Jun 14 | | Getting established | Is it standard practice for an agency to ask you to sign an NDA before they've hired you? | Yes | [quote]Anthony Mazzorana wrote:
Is it standard
practice for an agency to ask you to sign an NDA
before they've hired you to do anything?
[/quote]
Yes, it's quite common. Some NDAs can | Samuel Murray | Jun 12 | | Proofreading / Editing / Reviewing | How to efficiently proofread | Two tips | [quote]mh1019 wrote:
Does any have any know-how
or tips to efficiently proofread documents with a
lot of numbers? [/quote]
1. The finger method:
Print out the files and put them side b | Samuel Murray | Jun 11 | | SDL Trados support | Trados 2017 error This file was created without using a file type definition. | My understanding... | [quote]Jolanda Admiraal wrote:
I created an align
project, checked the text, saved it as an sdlxliff
file and worked on that file in Trados to make my
changes and add my comments. [/quote | Samuel Murray | Jun 8 | | Business issues | stepes.com notification spam | Just mark as spam | [quote]Spiros Doikas wrote:
I see no way to stop
project notifications for my language pairs.
[/quote]
Does your e-mail provider allow you to
mark these mails as spam, and/or does your | Samuel Murray | Jun 7 | | ProZ.com Translation Contests | New edition of ProZ.com translation contests, “The sounds of silence”, starting today | So... 3x as many voters are required | [quote]Tatiana Dietrich wrote:
You can find the
answer to that question in this post. The same
logic applies both to the Qualification and the
Finals phase. [/quote]
Thanks for the
| Samuel Murray | Jun 6 | | ProZ.com Translation Contests | New edition of ProZ.com translation contests, “The sounds of silence”, starting today | @Tatiana | [quote]Tatiana Dietrich wrote:
Entry submission
is limited to ProZ.com members. Non-members can
rate and vote for their favorite entries.
[/quote]
But on
[url=https://www.proz.com/ | Samuel Murray | Jun 5 | | ProZ.com Translation Contests | New edition of ProZ.com translation contests, “The sounds of silence”, starting today | @Elizabeth | [quote]Elizabeth Tamblin wrote:
I might consider
participating if the entries were judged by an
impartial panel of experts. [/quote]
None of
the ProZ.com contests were ever judged by a | Samuel Murray | Jun 5 | | Site forums | Make "inclusive" format available to non-staff topic starters? (+ What poster info to show?) | Flawed thinking | [quote]Henry Dotterer wrote:
Basically, in the
interest of making it easier for a large number of
people to weigh in and have their input
considered, the format asks posters to limit the< | Samuel Murray | Jun 3 | | Business issues | Translating for companies | @Roisin | [quote]Roisin Ni Cheallaigh wrote:
Be careful
when you are translating for companies, they can
confuse you very easily. A ... company did that to
me today. I am seriously considering not | Samuel Murray | Jun 1 | | Business issues | The GDPR and cold-calling | @Christine | [quote]Christine Andersen wrote:
If you have
found potential clients' phone numbers or contact
details, e.g. on this site or on their own
websites, you can assume they have deliberately | Samuel Murray | Jun 1 | | Business issues | The GDPR and cold-calling | All here, replying | [quote]trujimanete wrote:
a) Cold email
prospective clients
d) Cold calling prospective
clients [by phone] [/quote]
Sending the actual
e-mail would not be a problem. But before you< | Samuel Murray | Jun 1 | | Translator resources | Best tool to translate User Interface? | Auto-propagation can be the enemy of UI translation | [quote]Paoamsterdam wrote:
This tool seems to
have some weaknesses, such as no auto-propagation
or pre-translation features.
[/quote]
Auto-propagation is fine for UI
translation if | Samuel Murray | Jun 1 | | Business issues | Hopefully misunderstanding memoQ | 2 days wasted, I'm afraid | [quote]ahartje wrote:
2 days by now I am waiting
for a reply to my question. [/quote]
Anke, you
sent a sales query to the technical support
helpdesk.
Yes, your query was related to< | Samuel Murray | Jun 1 | | ProZ.com directory | A translator you know to be good in "IT" says they are also good in "legal". Is it probably true? | @Henry | [quote]Henry Dotterer wrote:
If such a person
tells you that they can also do legal work, how
certain are you that this is the case?
[/quote]
No matter how much I trust a colleague
| Samuel Murray | May 31 | | Business issues | What am I earning? | You earn USD 12.00 | [quote]Felix CHARNLEY wrote:
I'm being paid the
following for a translation.
Budget: 12
USD.
Word count: 411.[/quote]
I agree with
what others have said. The "budget" can be
e | Samuel Murray | May 31 | | Business issues | Hopefully misunderstanding memoQ | This is their upgrade model | [quote]ahartje wrote:
Please tell me, I
misunderstood the whole thing. [/quote]
Each
company can choose to arrange payment for upgrades
in a different way. MemoQ chose a method that i | Samuel Murray | May 31 | | CAT Tools Technical Help | Cloud-based CAT - Copy & paste? | Off the top of my head | [quote]casey wrote:
Is it possible to copy from
the online document and paste onto your own
desktop? [/quote]
Off the top of my head, all
online CAT tools that I have used so far allow | Samuel Murray | May 30 | | Translator resources | Concordance generator for linguists | Most CAT tools have it | [quote]dimitrispi wrote:
The software is a
concordance generator that will take as input
user-selected text files and provide concordances
of words. [/quote]
Most modern CAT tools are< | Samuel Murray | May 29 | | SDL Trados support | Trados 2017 Any trick or idea to paste multiple rows of text in the target column? | @Javier | [quote]javierxp wrote:
[quote]Samuel Murray
wrote:
Trados creates a DOCX file with tracked
changes enabled, but you don't need them. You can
disable tracked changes, paste the text, and | Samuel Murray | May 28 | | Business issues | Sending certificates/diplomas ? | Simply cross out any sensitive information | [quote]Lian Pang wrote:
Recently I've seen quite
a few job posting asking service providers to send
in their diplomas / relevant certificates. I have
never been a fan of doing so as I con | Samuel Murray | May 28 | | SDL Trados support | Trados 2017 Any trick or idea to paste multiple rows of text in the target column? | @Javier | [quote]javierxp wrote:
The way to paste multiple
rows of text in the target column would be to
"inject" text coming from a bilingual review.
[/quote]
Trados creates a DOCX file with
| Samuel Murray | May 27 | | KudoZ | Airbrushed out of the charts (ProZ.com team: Full leader list will be made accessible again) | I agree | [quote]Lancashireman wrote:
The paying members
have all moved up as the non-paying members have
been airbrushed out of the records. [/quote]
I
agree that this is very bad. The same th | Samuel Murray | May 27 | | Hardware | The perfect monitor for translators! THIS is going on my 'to buy' list! | But seriously | I know this is more of a joke thread, but
seriously... this is the one all translators ought
to
have:
[url=https://www.cameranu.nl/nl/p705545/e
izo-ev2730q-bk-27-inch-monitor?channa | Samuel Murray | May 27 | | SDL Trados support | Trados 2017 Any trick or idea to paste multiple rows of text in the target column? | More about my little script | [quote]Nora Diaz wrote:
Would it be possible to
share the code? [/quote]
The code is at that
link. But I've uploaded here as
well:
http://www.leuce.com/autoit/paste-lines-in-
tra | Samuel Murray | May 25 | | SDL Trados support | Trados 2017 Any trick or idea to paste multiple rows of text in the target column? | My own little script | [quote]Stepan Konev wrote:
[quote]Samuel Murray
wrote:
Nora's AHK script seems to be a good
solution, and it automates something that I often
do myself manually.[/quote]
Have you manage | Samuel Murray | May 25 | | SDL Trados support | Trados 2017 Any trick or idea to paste multiple rows of text in the target column? | @Javier | [quote]javierxp wrote:
I was suggested to export
the text for external review, open it in Word,
paste all the information for the TARGET column
inside Word, saving the word file, and then | Samuel Murray | May 25 | | SDL Trados support | Trados 2017 Any trick or idea to paste multiple rows of text in the target column? | How to move filters up and down | [quote]javierxp wrote:
Hi Walter, your solution
is exactly what I need... however I don't know how
to run the Biingual Excel filter. [/quote]
In
order to coax Trados into using the Bil | Samuel Murray | May 25 | | ProZ.com profile help | Is this for real? No Ips are shown any more but codes? | @Katalin | [quote]Katalin Szilárd wrote:
Allowing connected
social network accounts (even if it's optional) on
this site has a much bigger (negative) impact on
privacy than showing IPs. [/quote]
| Samuel Murray | May 24 | | Money matters | Are my rates too high? | Reply | [quote]Christophe Delaunay
wrote:
[quote]Alexandros Theodotou
wrote:
Japanese > English 0.05 EUR per
character
Greek > English 0.09 EUR per word
[/quote]
Any reasonable reason why | Samuel Murray | May 24 | | ProZ.com profile help | Is this for real? No Ips are shown any more but codes? | @Matthias | [quote]Matthias Brombach wrote:
I hope they will
not have banned the IP adres in the e-mail header
too, when being contacted by anyone via the "Send
message" button here on Proz.com. [/qu | Samuel Murray | May 24 | | General technical issues | text editor with Unicode support : looking for recommendations | @Angel | [quote]Angel Llacuna wrote:
I need to import
terminology into a new termbase for memoQ. I need
that memoQ treat the file as Unicode so the
accented vowels of the Spanish language can be | Samuel Murray | May 24 | | ProZ.com profile help | Is this for real? No Ips are shown any more but codes? | @Katalin | [quote]Katalin Szilárd wrote:
This function
protects us against scammmers, and fraudulent
outsourcers etc. [/quote]
Sure, but I assume
every IP address is now replaced with a unique | Samuel Murray | May 24 | | ProZ.com suggestions | Add option to present GDPR popup to profile visitors | Replies | [quote]Paulinho Fonseca wrote:
Do you think that
will help against hackers?
[/quote]
No.
ProZ.com keeps track of all IP
addresses anyway, because they are allowed to do
so for t | Samuel Murray | May 24 | | ProZ.com suggestions | Add option to present GDPR popup to profile visitors | | Hello
As I understand it, GDPR disallows
ProZ.com from telling us the IP addresses (and
similarly gathered information) of visitors to our
profile pages, unless the visitors have actual | Samuel Murray | May 24 | | ProZ.com profile help | Is this for real? No Ips are shown any more but codes? | GDPR, probably | [quote]Katalin Szilárd wrote:
I really hope this
is just a joke. [/quote]
IANAL, but AFAIK,
dynamic IP addresses are considered personal data
under GDPR. I'm not sure about static
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