Forum: SDL Trados support
Topic: How do I get rid of all the tags in SDL Trados Studio 2011?
Poster: Châu Nguyễn
Post title: Annoying formatting tags
Those tags are the results of bad formatting in Words. There are 02 causes, too much copy/paste from different documents with different formatting or It is a scanned documents.
The main principle here is to make your text the same by either strip your text of all the formatting or bring them to the same formatting like Mr. Jerzy's solution. For me, I always use the "Keep text only..." option when I copy and pasting around. That way I get rid of all the unnecessary formatting. Sadly, this is not applicable to table in Words.
For a scanned document, never import it directly into Trados. Even though Trados has built in OCR but your document will be plagued with tags. If you find yourself in this situation, use a 3rd party OCR software (I recommend using ABBYY) export the recognized text to MS Word, process it a little bit as mentioned above then import the file to Trados.
The longer road is always the easier road.
Topic: How do I get rid of all the tags in SDL Trados Studio 2011?
Poster: Châu Nguyễn
Post title: Annoying formatting tags
Those tags are the results of bad formatting in Words. There are 02 causes, too much copy/paste from different documents with different formatting or It is a scanned documents.
The main principle here is to make your text the same by either strip your text of all the formatting or bring them to the same formatting like Mr. Jerzy's solution. For me, I always use the "Keep text only..." option when I copy and pasting around. That way I get rid of all the unnecessary formatting. Sadly, this is not applicable to table in Words.
For a scanned document, never import it directly into Trados. Even though Trados has built in OCR but your document will be plagued with tags. If you find yourself in this situation, use a 3rd party OCR software (I recommend using ABBYY) export the recognized text to MS Word, process it a little bit as mentioned above then import the file to Trados.
The longer road is always the easier road.