Creating a Monolingual Glossary in English for Consistent Translation Notes

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Hi Trados Community Team, 
 I have a question regarding the creation of a monolingual glossary for English. Specifically, I would like to create a glossary with English as the only language to be used consistently when setting up projects in Trados Studio 2022. 
 The source language is always English, and the client typically provides clarification notes on how the English text should be translated&mdash;or if it shoul remain in English&mdash;along with screenshots, etc.. I want to compile this information into a glossary, ensuring it can be used each time I create a project. Is it possible to create such a glossary within Trados, and can I use it across different projects, especially those with various target languages like Spanish, French, Arabic, Portuguese, and German? 
 I&rsquo;d like to work from an Excel file containing the following columns: 
 English (the text to be translated), Notes (clarification or instructions), Files (file name where this term appears), Product (specic product name), Screenshot I'll create the .sdltb file with the Glossary Converter tool. 
 Looking forward to your guidance. 
 Thank you!

Paul · Accepted Answer

Virginia Seggiaro 
 Yes, this is perfectly possible.:

My settings in Studio are these:

But that alone isn't enough, I also need to make sure I show terms with no translation in the settings:

My Glossary Converter settings were these: 
 
 And my Excel file was like this:

The images in the spreadsheet need to be in a media folder with the same name as the spreadsheet you convert prefixed with media_ like this: 
 
 emptyLangs - Glossary.xlsx 
 media_emptyLangs - Glossary 
 
 They should be in the same folder together when you run the conversion. 
 
 That should give you some idea of how that works.

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Creating a Monolingual Glossary in English for Consistent Translation Notes

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