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Armando Pattroni Peru Local time: 21:55 English to Spanish + ...
Feb 12, 2009
Hi. Does anyone of you know how to convert a TM (in text or anything), into a valid Excel file where I can see the Source phrase in one column and the target phrase beside? I have a problem with a DTP process an would like to send my client the TM in a way he could understand and then copy and paste the translation to replace the text in the original file. Thanks.
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Peter Bouillon Germany Local time: 04:55 French to German + ...
Try this...
Feb 13, 2009
Armando Pattroni wrote:
Hi. Does anyone of you know how to convert a TM (in text or anything), into a valid Excel file
Inside Olifant, "save" the memory to "Wordfast TM file".
This "Wordfast" format is simply a tab-delimited text file, so you can open that file in Excel and save it from there.
I suggest hiding colums A to D and F and row 1 before passing the Excel to your customer so that your customer cannot ding with them (or alternatively, lock these cells). (*)
For re-conversion, you do the following:
Save the Excel as tab-delimited text file.
Open the file in Okapi Olifant as a "Wordfast TM file". Check that it imported correctly.
Save the file as TMX file.
Import the resulting TMX.
If that did not work out, here is an alternative re-conversion method:
Expect some time-consuming fiddling coming up when going through all those loops.
Peter
(*) 1st line is heading, column A is date/time, B is name, C is usage count, D is source language, F is target language. So columns E and G are what the customer is interested in.
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