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Rajan Chopra
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Mar 28, 2012

Hi experts,

I have many MS Word files which contain the translation in bilingual form in tables with two columns. The first column has English source and the second column has its Hindi translation in front of the first column.

Is it possible to make a Wordfast memory from such files? If so, please explain the step by step procedure.

I am talking about a Wordfast Pro memory.

Thanks and regards,

Chopra



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Hi experts,

I have many MS Word files which contain the translation in bilingual form in tables with two columns. The first column has English source and the second column has its Hindi translation in front of the first column.

Is it possible to make a Wordfast memory from such files? If so, please explain the step by step procedure.

I am talking about a Wordfast Pro memory.

Thanks and regards,

Chopra





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Natalie
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Step by step procedure Mar 28, 2012

http://www.wordfast.net/index.php?whichpage=knowledge&Task=view&questId=39&catId=15

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Rajan Chopra
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Thanks for suggesting the link, but... Mar 28, 2012

I would be grateful if someone else could suggest a simpler method in respect of making Wordfast Pro translation memory from bilingual Word files in which source text and translation is already arranged in tables.
 
Natalie
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Quite simple Mar 28, 2012

Step 1. Make 2 documents using source and target columns

Step 2. Proceed with http://www.wordfast.net/index.php?whichpage=knowledge&Task=view&questId=39&catId=15
 
Dominique Pivard
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PlusToyz + WFC Mar 28, 2012

langclinic wrote:
I have many MS Word files which contain the translation in bilingual form in tables with two columns. The first column has English source and the second column has its Hindi translation in front of the first column.
Is it possible to make a Wordfast memory from such files? If so, please explain the step by step procedure.

PlusToyz (free collection of Word macros that can be downloaded from the Files section of the WFC list on Yahoo) has a handy function labelled 'Word table to Trados-like segmented text.'

Once you have converted your tables to "uncleaned" documents, you can clean all of them in one go in WFC and you will obtain a Wf memory.

langclinic wrote:
I am talking about a Wordfast Pro memory.

A WFC memory is a WFP memory, and vice-versa. They have exactly the same format, only their index differs. But what you are interested here is the actual memory (= the file with the .txt extension).
 


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