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Trados Studio 2017 - Auto propagation not working in review mode
Have you ever reviewed a large file in SDL Trados Studio with numerous repetitions and struggled with confirmed segments not being propagated to the rest of the file? Here is what to do. Imagine you h…
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Large Excel translation – Studio vs. MemoQ
I was recently asked to translate a large Excel file containing 40,000+ rows. The total word count was not so big, about 50k new words. With this article I would like to share my experience and proble…
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TRAEICTIO Invoicing System development approaches the finish line
As some of you already know, the TRAEICTIO Invoicing System is a simple invoicing platform focusing on freelance translators. I have been developing the system for about 12 months and after extensive …
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General approach to translating Across projects out of Across
If you read my articles regularly, you are already know that I dislike Across. Across is difficult to use, does not offer feature that are readily available in other CAT tools, and rather slows me dow…
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Invoicing system for freelancers - beta testers needed
I used to keep the records on my clients, projects, invoices, etc. in Excel sheets and to generate my monthly invoices manually. However, with growing client base, invoicing became a time-consuming an…
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SDL Trados Studio – Corrupt file: Missing locked content for Oasis.Xliff 12.x.
I recently accepted a large proofreading job to be completed in SDL Trados Studio 2014. All seemed to be fine until I tried to open some of the project files. This article describes how to deal with "…
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Across – Impossible to ignore QM errors to deliver the job
I have recently run into the problem of not being able to deliver completed project due to strange behavior of Across in terms of required Quality Management checks. I assume this is not an uncommon p…
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Across – Translating online project on two computers
I have been working with Across for several years, but I never got rid of impression that this CAT tools is very user-unfriendly and bugged. A great limitation is a lack of means for an easy transfer …
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Fixing "50050: Source segment is empty!" error in SDL Trados 2007
Imagine you have a large translation memory in Translator's Workbench (Trados 2007) format with thousands of units and one day, when you try to open the TM, you get this error: "50050: Source segment …
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Hide ribbon in SDL Trados Studio 2014
I am not one of those who criticize the ribbon in Microsoft and other software. On the other hand, while the large monitor of my desktop PC offers a plenty of working space, I cannot say the same abou…
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Converting TMX into bilingual Excel file without special tools
Not all translators have all of the complex software tools available. Imagine you have a TMX file and you need to extract its contents into a bilingual Excel file. This article describes how to perfor…
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SDL Multiterm – Object reference not set to an instance of an object
SDL products often bring various surprises and I cannot say that they are always positive. On Friday, I experienced an error message "Object reference not set to an instance of an object" shown by the…
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SDL Trados Studio - Hiding automated translation (AT) origin
If you use the MyMemory plug-in for SDL Trados Studio, your translated segments will often be assigned the AT (Automated Translation) origin. This also includes the MT (machine translated) segments. W…
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Translating SDL Studio Project in Word
Almost every freelance professional with a solid client base outsources jobs sometimes, either due to lack of time or a client requires a different language pair. Do you have fellow translators, who d…
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Extracting translations from Transit XV reference material
Despite Transit XV is quite obsolete tool, it is still used by numerous (mostly) German companies. Not all of my colleagues, whom I give some jobs, are working with Transit, so from time to time I am …