Forum: Wordfast support
Topic: Retaining tags/attributes when converting TMX to Excel and back
Poster: Tony M
Post title: No expert, but...
I work with Wordfast Classic only — and the thought that immediately springs to my mind is "why are you going via Excel at all?"
I can't see why you can't do exactly the same manœuvre, only going via Word, using a table structure. This is what I do all the time — in fact, if I get an Excel file in, I convert it to Word first!
Also, there's no reason why you can't start off with 2 columns with your source text in, and simply set the left-hand ('source') column with the 'don't translate' attribute, so that Wordfast will simply translate the right-hand 'target' column and leave your original untouched; this saves you one step, and has the advantage of always presenting the columns 'in step'.
I have no idea if this would help, but I'd have thought that generally Word was more likely to preserve you attributes better than Excel ;-)
Topic: Retaining tags/attributes when converting TMX to Excel and back
Poster: Tony M
Post title: No expert, but...
I work with Wordfast Classic only — and the thought that immediately springs to my mind is "why are you going via Excel at all?"
I can't see why you can't do exactly the same manœuvre, only going via Word, using a table structure. This is what I do all the time — in fact, if I get an Excel file in, I convert it to Word first!
Also, there's no reason why you can't start off with 2 columns with your source text in, and simply set the left-hand ('source') column with the 'don't translate' attribute, so that Wordfast will simply translate the right-hand 'target' column and leave your original untouched; this saves you one step, and has the advantage of always presenting the columns 'in step'.
I have no idea if this would help, but I'd have thought that generally Word was more likely to preserve you attributes better than Excel ;-)