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Translation of text boxes from DOCX documents
Thread poster: Nicolas Gambardella
Nicolas Gambardella
Nicolas Gambardella
United Kingdom
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Member (2019)
English to French
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Sep 9, 2019

Hello,

I kept bumping in the same issue: I would import in CafeTran Espresso a DOCX file that contains text boxes. I'd translate the text boxes and export the translation. If I open the resulting DOCX in LibreOffice or Google Docs, I see the translated box, no problem. However, one of my clients systematically complained that I did not translate the boxes, and sent me screenshots from MS Word that indeed showed the boxes with the source text within the exported translation!
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Hello,

I kept bumping in the same issue: I would import in CafeTran Espresso a DOCX file that contains text boxes. I'd translate the text boxes and export the translation. If I open the resulting DOCX in LibreOffice or Google Docs, I see the translated box, no problem. However, one of my clients systematically complained that I did not translate the boxes, and sent me screenshots from MS Word that indeed showed the boxes with the source text within the exported translation!

I wanted to understand what was happening, so I unpacked the exported DOCX. And in the document word>>document.xml I found BOTH versions of the boxes, the translated and the source one.

For some reason, my client sees only the original box (but everything else is translated), while I see the translated one.

This is weird, but most importantly, it is very disabling! ▲ Collapse
 
Jean Dimitriadis
Jean Dimitriadis  Identity Verified
English to French
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Word text box Sep 9, 2019

Hello Nicolas,

I've found this post in the official forum's archive: https://cafetran.freshdesk.com/support/discussions/topics/6000046910

Is it relevant to you?

Jean

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