A long struggle with a strange character that appeared in Trados Studio just came to a successful conclusion with the help of a wonderful inofficial Trados help group on Facebook. Here is the curious story of the “Upwards Arrow With Tip Rightwards” that had a number of power users stumped. Once upon a time, I…
Read MoreI hate to disappoint the animal lovers among my readers, but the term CAT-tool has nothing to do with our furry friends. CAT is the acronym for “computer-assisted translation,” which, in turn, has only marginally to do with machine translation. Computer-assisted translation simply refers to software or apps that help translators with the technical aspects…
Read MoreIf you have an older version of Wordfast lying around, but are sent a link to a new gltm (global TM), you likely found out that the format of the link is invalid in the older Wordfast version. The gltm link format is as follows: gltm://username:password@url:portnumber/ You can easily render this link such that it’s…
Read MoreHere’s how to clear all target segments in Trados Studio 2009: Select the first segment of the block that you want to clear by clicking on the number of the segment on the left-hand side as shown below. Go to the last segment of the block of segments that you want to clear, keep the…
Read MoreSometimes Word documents contain a lot of extra (hidden) tags, that can really hinder the use of a CAT-tool and stop your translation workflow in its tracks. Particularly PDF-documents that are converted to Word can have tags between every single word or even letter! The reason for this overabundance of tags is that Word seems…
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