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Vincenzo Di Maso
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Feb 4, 2019

Dear all,

my client requested me to create a two-column Word file to work on.
Basically I have a few files to translate and my client needs the translation inserted in two columns.

Is there a tool simplifying this process?
I have Trados 2014. Is there a straightforward function there?
Of course I have no will to create tables from scratch in Word. That would be bothersome and time-consuming.

Thank you very much in advance.
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Dear all,

my client requested me to create a two-column Word file to work on.
Basically I have a few files to translate and my client needs the translation inserted in two columns.

Is there a tool simplifying this process?
I have Trados 2014. Is there a straightforward function there?
Of course I have no will to create tables from scratch in Word. That would be bothersome and time-consuming.

Thank you very much in advance.
Your help will be much appreciated. ▲ Collapse
 
Mauro Ciaccio
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Windows Layout as Columns Feb 4, 2019

Have you tried simply selecting the following menu options (valid for Office 365***):

Layout - Columns - Two

You can just copy and paster your source text into Word, and then apply the formatting.

This will be a pretty brute force approach, so you will then probably need to define the styles that you require.

Hope that helps

*** Should be the same in older versions

[Edited at 2019-02-04 13:52 GMT]
 
Andriy Yasharov
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A two-column Word/rtf file export from a CAT tool Feb 4, 2019

Hi,

Try importing your source file into Studio or any other CAT tool, even a trial version will do, and export the file as a two-column Word/rtf file for translation in MS Word.

Maud Durand
 
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Do you mean... Feb 4, 2019

monolingual text formatted in two columns, or source in one column and target in the other? I suppose the latter. I don't use Trados, but what I would do is, I would transform the source text (in Word) into a table. Then I would use CAT on it, and then create a Word document with a 2-column table and copy the source into one and the trans into the other. Seems complicated, but it is quite fast and it's difficult to get it wrong.
 
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source in one column and target in the other Feb 4, 2019

I mean that it is possible to have the source in one column and the target in the other as discussed in the following topic: www.proz.com/forum/sdl_trados_support/312487-how_to_export_generate_a_bilingual_doc_in_trados.html

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Two steps in Word Feb 4, 2019

First, if it isn't already, I convert the source text to a table; then I adjust the width of the rsulting single column to be about half my screen width, so that I can then copy-&-paste the entire column next to itself.
Then I select and set the 'source (probably left-hand) column to the untranslatable attribute for my particular CAT tool, and then translate as normal (of course, only the right-hand column will translate.
This is quite handy, as you always have the 'clean' source tex... See more
First, if it isn't already, I convert the source text to a table; then I adjust the width of the rsulting single column to be about half my screen width, so that I can then copy-&-paste the entire column next to itself.
Then I select and set the 'source (probably left-hand) column to the untranslatable attribute for my particular CAT tool, and then translate as normal (of course, only the right-hand column will translate.
This is quite handy, as you always have the 'clean' source text just alongside, so can easily copy-&-paste from that if you need to, which is sometimes easier than copying from the source segment.

Aftare clean-up at the end, you can if necessary select the left-hand 'source' column and remove the 'do not translate' attribute; though in many cases, this is not necessary. ▲ Collapse
 
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Thank you all! Feb 4, 2019

thank you all!
It worked by using the bilingual review mode in Trados.
 


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