Forum: SDL Trados support
Topic: SDL Trados 2014 New bugs & shortcomings
Poster: D.D.G.
Post title: I'm looking for the ability to merge duplicates
Dear Paul,
Thank you for intervening.
I'm not just looking to single out duplicates and eliminate them, what I actually want is to merge them.
I remember talking with the developer of Glossary Converter and asking him to provide some functionality for merging duplicates, but here's what he told me on the 29th of April:
"Hi Daniel,
merging is one hell of a complex process, and really beyond the scope of Glossary Converter. I won't say it will never be done, I have no idea where it will go in the future, but it won't happen any time soon." (Gerhard Kordmann)
So it seems that nobody noticed that I'm looking for duplicates in order to merge them, not eliminate them. Why? Well, I have all kinds of dictionaries in Excel format, and among them a large Medical dictionary. Here's a cropped screenshot of this Medical Dictionary taken from Excel:
As you can see it has close to 150,000 rows/lines/entries, many of which duplicates that I want to merge.
Topic: SDL Trados 2014 New bugs & shortcomings
Poster: D.D.G.
Post title: I'm looking for the ability to merge duplicates
Dear Paul,
Thank you for intervening.
I'm not just looking to single out duplicates and eliminate them, what I actually want is to merge them.
I remember talking with the developer of Glossary Converter and asking him to provide some functionality for merging duplicates, but here's what he told me on the 29th of April:
"Hi Daniel,
merging is one hell of a complex process, and really beyond the scope of Glossary Converter. I won't say it will never be done, I have no idea where it will go in the future, but it won't happen any time soon." (Gerhard Kordmann)
So it seems that nobody noticed that I'm looking for duplicates in order to merge them, not eliminate them. Why? Well, I have all kinds of dictionaries in Excel format, and among them a large Medical dictionary. Here's a cropped screenshot of this Medical Dictionary taken from Excel:
As you can see it has close to 150,000 rows/lines/entries, many of which duplicates that I want to merge.