Forum: SDL Trados support
Topic: How to translate a Word table in Trados as a bilingual file?
Poster: SDL Support
Post title: What version are you using?
[quote]Grzegorz Gryc wrote:
This method will fail if the text contains soft line breaks.
[/quote]
It works for me quite fine... in my simple test. The tricky part is copying the table into Excel without losing the soft returns. So you search and replace the soft returns in Word first with something that is unlikely to appear in the normal text. /##/ for example, and then copy ans paste the table into Excel.
Now, search and replace the /##/ in excel and replace with the soft return. To do this type the alt code Alt+010 into the replace box. It won't show up but it is there and when you replace all the text is as required.
Going back to Word is easier ad the soft returns are retained.
So a little fiddly but it can be done even with soft returns.
The real problem is when there is formatting in the font. The csv filetype won't support it.
Regards
Paul
Topic: How to translate a Word table in Trados as a bilingual file?
Poster: SDL Support
Post title: What version are you using?
[quote]Grzegorz Gryc wrote:
This method will fail if the text contains soft line breaks.
[/quote]
It works for me quite fine... in my simple test. The tricky part is copying the table into Excel without losing the soft returns. So you search and replace the soft returns in Word first with something that is unlikely to appear in the normal text. /##/ for example, and then copy ans paste the table into Excel.
Now, search and replace the /##/ in excel and replace with the soft return. To do this type the alt code Alt+010 into the replace box. It won't show up but it is there and when you replace all the text is as required.
Going back to Word is easier ad the soft returns are retained.
So a little fiddly but it can be done even with soft returns.
The real problem is when there is formatting in the font. The csv filetype won't support it.
Regards
Paul