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Just in case, let me clarify that language is not a user preference, but an attribute of the text, much like boldface, point size or font. Thus, just as if you wanted to set that text in b
If you've set Word to warn you if a document contains macros and you open such a document, you get these options: disable macros and open the document, enable macros in the document and op
Language, as well as the "Do not check spelling or grammar" flag, are not settings or user preferences—they are both attributes of the text, just like Bold, Underline, Times New Roman,
The next time you receive a suspicious file, upload it to www. www.virustotal.com . The site currently analyzes any file submitted using 42 antivirus packages. This service is free, but th
De la Presentación en http://lema.rae.es/drae/ :“Especial cuidado ha de poner en ello el Diccionario académico al que se otorga un valor normativo en todo el mundo de habla española�
I do keep my TMs updated, but I just send segmented files to my clients, not TMs.
However, for most of my clients my TMs are no longer serving matches. All I need is to maintain con
I have a several clients for whom I've worked for years. I'm required to send them segmented files.
For the last couple of years, they've been increasingly pre-translating text and
Price seems to be all that matters here. That's why I seldom respond to job offers, excepting those that require certain specializations. Nevertheless, note that job offers are sadly l
I was not able to fine-tune this, but it works if you look for the header in the proper webpages:
• "Pages in topic" "6 7 8 9" site:www.proz.com/forum/
Change the number sequen
There was a recent post advertising a new CAT tool that was immediately taken down by a ProZ moderator. This by-subscription tool purportedly obtained several computer-translated versions
Read the following thread in the Microsoft forum. The funny part is the original poster's reply.
• http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/mac/forum/macof fice2011-macword/how-can-i-be
See http://blogs.technet.com/b/office_sustained_engine ering/archive/2011/02/24/addressing-word-2007-docx -compatibility-and-missing-spaces.aspx .
To understand the squiggly lines (
Despite FEA's posting the ATA logo in their "Our services" page (which resides in a free web-hosting service), they don't appear in ATA's directory.
One job offer from a guy purporting<
I've had success posting negative feedback on the various translator forums, then sending screenshots of the postings to the company. Some sites won't let you see the post once it's pu
Esta es una fotografía que tomé de la puerta de emergencia de un avión de pasajeros argentino con capacidad para unas cien personas, recientemente fabricado en Brasil. ¿Es concebible q
PDF-to-Word converters tend to use text boxes. If your document has text boxes and you do Select All before counting, you will only get the count for the text in the main flow. In order to
His email address what hacked? That would only make it impossible for him to access his account, presumably because the hacker changed the password. But the poor guy ALSO had his computer<
Enter the company's address in Google Maps to see take a look at the facilities. Use Google's Street View feature to check out the neighborhood, particularly their host services.
I gues
To count words in headers or footers, you need to select them and count them separately.
For the word count to include text within floating boxes, don't select any text (the cursor shou
For a single site, you would use the site: qualifier. For instance:
"Andrea Re" site:proz.com
The quotation marks above ensure I'm looking for your name as a phrase, but are not
However, the spell checker was abysmal
I forgot that one.
In Word, I have custom dictionaries for each client's client, so that spell checking no longer stops at "questionable" terms.
In my experience, uncivil KudoZ askers (no thanks, no glossary entries, no closing of questions, no points awarded, no information in their profiles, often a blatant ignorance of the subje
This is what Google has to say about the Google Translate API (my underlines):
Does Google look or use the text I send for translation?
Google will not use any of your content for any
Picture this:
Project Manager: "So, Mr. Grau, what experience do you have in the field of networking software?"
Me: "I have an MS in Computer Science and for the last year I've been<
Just like you can search for text in Bold, irrespective of what text it is, by leaving the Search field blank and enabling "Bold" as a font attribute, you can search for Hidden text (Forma
... where segments appear as {0>Source<}0{>Target<0}, then all you need to do is find the Hidden text and replace it by nothing.
Check your Word preferences/options and
It seems WF uses Application.OnTime associated to: a "WfLauncher" macro (whatever it launches), and "{Escape}" sequence (possibly MT), and AutoCorrect (the AC tab) with delays from 0 to 2
I just looked at how WF works. For instance, by looking at the bookmarks as WF is running and looking at the names of the macros in the WF template.
You can't reverse-engineer software<
1) Run WF's Next Segment
Application.Run MacroName:="WfNextSegment"
At this point, your macro continues with the segment in an opened state (source and target in separate lines).
• You initially have two minutes to complete each proofreading task.
• However, you won't ever see the whole project. For security reasons, Translation Cloud gives you only one line
When doing a paid test, the quality of the translation cannot be reasonably brought up as reason for non-payment.
The company did not pay and they are at fault.
You have every right
An updated TM is a natural byproduct of a CAT translation task, so I don't think one should try to charge extra for it.
Samuel, after I've worked with a given memory for a couple of mon
... porque tenemos "título" y "titulación" ( http://buscon.rae.es/draeI/SrvltGUIBusUsual?TIPO_H TML=2&TIPO_BUS=3&LEMA=titulación ). Lo lógico es agregar el prefijo a ambos términos.
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German to English Kudoz: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=%22h elen+shiner%22+site%3Awww.proz.com%2Fkudoz%2Fgerma n_to_english
German to English Kudoz, with keyword:
"La tengo combinada con traducciones de otros clientes sobre el mismo tema, porque me resulta cómodo tener una memoria para medicina, otra para ingeniería, etc. Por motivos de confidenci
Find: bold text (using nothing in the Find field)
Replace: ^&^t
That will add a tab at the end of the bold text. Then cleanup the extra spaces, changing "space tab" and "tab space" int
You may have a macro virus.
1) Quit Word. Hold the Control key down and start it. This will momentarily bypass your Normal.dot and your Preferences, effectively turning your Word into
My main concern would be the chance of not receiving compensation for your translation work, in particular if you will not be paid by the word when you deliver the text. If you've instead
However, no PDF converter will convert complex files (tables in particular) flawlessly. PDF files were designed as a delivery mechanism, not as working files.
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