Monday, January 11, 2010

Trados Fun

A few tips on how to manipulate tags in Trados:

When dealing with files that have a lot of formatting tags, there are two possible ways to deal with it in Trados Tag Editor:

1. The simpler more time consuming step:
Copy the source everytime, and then translate in between the tags (overwriting the English source text). Doing this will eliminate the need to copy all the tags all the time.

2. The more technical less time consuming step:
Tags can be protected and unprotected in TagEditor. When dealing with so many tags it might be handy to "unprotect" the internal tags (Tools>Options>Protection>Protect External Tags only). Now you can simply copy and paste tags, delete them etc..

Try it out and let me know.

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