AHK script to copy entire source and target into a two column word table from SFO editor even if documents are merged

Before i reinvent the wheel has some one already done this?

Thanks,

Daniel

  • Looks interesting (assuming SFO Editor is the PS3 tool?). How would you get the translations back in afterwards? Would it be better in Excel?  Or did you mean the Word format is from the SFO Editor and you want to get the content out of Studio into this format?

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  • Paul thank you for responding.
    I was literally only looking for a way of copying source text and target text out of the SDL Studio editor with several sdlxliff files open at the same time (visually merged) and posting their contents into a single Word file with two columns without any kind of formatting. I'm keeping myself busy in hospital at the moment, hence the poor expression. I know I can copy the source and target columns from studio manually but I often can't select them properly which is why I wanted to automate this.
    Best,
    Daniel
  • Hi Daniel,

    You might be better off exporting to Excel, then copy in that into Word for your two columns. The Excel export is tag free and you could use the batch export to do all files selected whether they were visually merged or not. Using AHK would be trickier although possible... probably replicating F6, Ctrl+Shift+down, Ctrl+C, switch to Word, Ctrl+V or something like that. I guess it could be useful to go straight from merged files to Word, but it might also be slow on large files.

    Good use of your time though!! Hopefully nothing serious.

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  • Wow. I came across this Excel Addin www.rondebruin.nl/.../rdbmerge.htm to combine masses of Excel files to get round not being able to do that with the XLIFF to Office converter and add the file names, comments, match types etc in one big, searchable file. AHK would have been too completely. Now I just need to get out of here - I hope Monday or Tuesday.
    Thanks so much Paul.