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I can't be the only person who has thought they'd copied something, only to find they hadn't in fact when they came to paste something lurking on the clipboard.
I'm not convinced you ne
That's a very risky solution, as it will only work if you have started by remembering to Ctrl C; so easy to slip!
The previous solution using the correct character codes is much more el
Very often when this happens, it is nothing sinister, merely a generic IP address from a major ISP — so it's not the same person visting your profile several times, but rather, visits fr
Normally, you can just use Search & Replace all ' with ', and provided you have smart quotes turned on AND the correct language set, it will just do it automatically. It doesn't matter whe
Sadly, this is yet another example of the classic overpayment scam, which has been widely reported in the ProZ.com forums.
You should check out the "scam alerts" page, and there also exis
This is good to know, but do bear in mind that the .ODT format is not universally openable by other word processors; so I would suggest that once you have this .ODT doc, you should then sa
[quote]Stepan Konev wrote:
Can you name it or give a link?
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Sorry, no... but the name was very self-explanatory, and I found it easily just be doing an Internet search. I th
I did once find a very handy little utility that was quite inexpensive that would join Word files — and even more usefully, split them again later!
The only snag I found was its inabili
We've had this discussion so many times in the past, and people using free e-mail providers always act very defensively!
Not all users of g-mail etc. are scammers — obviously!
HOWEVE
It is very common to receive frequent job offers that are not followed through; you certainly can't expect an outsourcer to engage in discussion of their ordering policy! Just keep on appl
Thanks to all contributors so far!
I apologise for having omitted my key requirement, which is the reason I long ago had to ditch both Outlook and Thunderbird!
They both have to drawb
I currently use Gmail to collect mail from multiple e-mail accounts, but it has shortcomings that bother me, and I would prefer to find a different solution.
First of all, Gmail, "r
I'm no expert; but when I have a matching pair of documents in a language pair like this, I would usually be looking at an alignment tool, to create a parallel bilingual file, from which y
I have some odd neurological condition that means I often invert pairs of letters (lack of L-R co-ordination)
So there are some words I frequently misspell into other words — examples
I confess I've not tried this specifically with MemSource, but a technique I've used before is to paste the statistics into a DOC and convert to table (or else into an XLS), and then start
The key factors when selecting a microphone are how well it picks up te voice, and how ell it ignores extraneous background sounds.
Most microphones these days, even fairly cheap ones,
This will inevitably have knock-on effects everywhere!
You may just be able to cheat by slightly reducing the font size, or better if you can, change the character spacing to be slightly<
I have experienced a similar thing in two quite different circumstances: (though neither of them with Word365)
1) With some documents, when they were created using a font that is not ins
I've always suspected it is probably the default setting for outsourcers when posting jobs.
My hunch is partly because the requirement for Trados often appears on jobs that patently woldn
[quote]Vladimír Pleva wrote:
I just did some research and I found out that the genuine MGM email has the same sender's IP address as the above mentioned fake email.
So I'm a bit s
Here in France, a utility bill is regulalry required as proof od the fact you do actually live at the address you claim — this is the only missing link in this net of information: they c
I personally refuse to do them, unless they are paid. I have over 25 years of experience in translation and a wealth of customer testimonials to prove my competence.
I believe there is
Let's face it, the whole subject is SO vast, it is going first of all to depend to a huge extent on your existing knowledge/experience in the field. From the sound of it, you would be star
'Select All', change document language to German; turn OFF the 'replace quotes by smart quotes' feature in 'Tools' > 'Auto Correction options' > 'Auto correct', and then try 'search and re
I have only ever used one piece of software, some years ago now, and this is the one I used then — I think it was the free trial version, but I was very happy with it.
When I did a quic
[quote]Kirill Rodionov wrote:
They don't want to make copy&paste work. [/quote]
Sadly, because of their lack of foresight, they may not have any choice!
BUT... if they still have access
I normally use Wordfast Classic, but when I was asked to deal with an InDesign file, I downloaded Wordfast Pro.
I was disappointed to see that it is of course vastly more complex — and
Bad luck! This happened to me once too — quite brazenly, by another ProZ.com member!
Might I suggest that, in addition to your post here (which will be seen by only a limited number o
The fact that you take responsibility for your work, in terms of quality and timeliness, is obviously only correct, and about the only redress a customer has is to ask for a reduction in t
Question 3 is a 'free' answer, which in my case was 'none'
In this case, your Question 4 is nonsense — because it presupposes you do use a CAT tool! Either Question 3 should have a '
Alternatively, perhaps you could simply use Word's own Search-&-Replace facility to apply the 'untranslatable' attribute used by your CAT tool to any text that is highlighted; this has the
Looking up a single word out of context (unless that word is a company-specific neologism) obviously cannot be reproached, as Thomas Frost points out.
HOWEVER, if you search for an ex
...is to upload and open them in e.g. Google docs, then save them from there in some other format, and download again; this has saved my bacon on a number of occasions, though admittedly,
Since videos work at a rate of 25 images / second, the smallest meaningful time interval is 1/25 sec = 0.04 s = 40 ms — so trying to measure anything smaller than that is pretty meaningl
I got the same — a very obvious scam attempt! So naturally I didn't reply; but I did check out the ProZ.com profile, which has already been deleted. With any luck, maybe your reply revea
Could you do it going via Excel?
Somthing like IF (value in Column A) = (value in Column B), THEN Column C = (value in Column A), ELSE [0]
Then when you copy back to word, it would b
Always having worked on Mac myself, when I started in translation (a long time ago!), I found myself constrained to going over to PC for at least one reason that seemed to me insurmountabl
How about extracting all the tables (I believe there are utilities that can do this), then doing 'Convert table to text' followed by 'Convert text to table' in order to concatenate them al
We have heard reports of the bank's rejecting the cheque up to 2 or 3 months later, when the forgery comes to light.
Depending on the banking regs in your country, the banks have a certai
I'm afraid it sounds like you've been caught!
This smells extremely like the classic overpayment scam: in particular, the failure of the "client" to provide verifiable ID, and the e
[quote]Bernhard Sulzer wrote:
...
>>>> Note: the author sends it to my email only, does not sign his name.
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How can you tell? if they used Bcc, you will see only your own
What do you mean when you say 'load'?
Do you mean "set them for use in Wordfast by accessing them directly from the Ext HD"?
It's not really a brilliant idea to work in W/F with TMs on
Once you have the 'of', you don't need the possessive any more, so you could say "They're friends of Luca and myself"; otherwise, "They're Luca and my friends" is OK; just as if you were t
If you are sending it back to the same person it originated from, you probably don't need to do anything!
As long as the font is on their computer, it will come out alright when they
First, check that the .TXT file has the right number of tabs (= columns) to correspond to a .TMX file — if it originally came from one, it probably will have!
Secondly, in a basic te
Hi!
You'll probably reach the best people to answer your question if you post it in the dedicated thread for Wordfast in the CAT Tools forum.
When re-posting, I suggest you mention the
I've had a similar sort of problem in the past, albeit using much earlier versions of the software.
Despite "seletcing all" and setting the language options, it refused to work for
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