how to recover multiterm 2007 after change of PC

Question

Hello, 
 
 I bought some weeks ago a new PC and installed on it Trados Studio (which I did not own before) as well as Trados 8.0 (which I deactivated on my old PC in order to activate it on the new PC). 
 So far, so good. 
 Both Trados versions work fine. 
 
 It was only today that I noticed that I do no longer have Multiterm for Trados 8.0. To be honest, I don't even rembember if Multiterm is automatically installed togehter with Trados 8.0 or if it requires a separate installation. Anyway, I do not longer have my old PC. And on my SDL account, I only see the licence for Trados but not for Multiterm. So how can I recover my good old Multiterm? 
 
 Thank you very much in advance for your help. 
 
 Kind regards, 
 Lucia

Paul · Answer

Hi Lucia, 
 
If you have installed Studio then you must work with the latest version of Multiterm too and not the old version you have there. So you need MultiTerm 12. You may have a lot of problems if you use Multiterm 8 as the changes between these versions are significant. 
 
If you look in the downloads section of your account (I'm looking in your account right now) you'll see this is available: 
 
SDL MultiTerm 2015 SR-2 Desktop Installer 
 
Download and install this version and then you're good to go. 
 
Regards 
 
Paul

Paul · Answer

Hi Lu&ccedil;ia, 
 No you can't. But you can handle the bilingual doc files in Studio if you like? All you need to do is convert the source file to a Bilingual DOC file first and then translate the Bilingual DOC file in Studio. The final target file will be a Bilingual DOC. 
 You can use Workbench to create a fully segmented Bilingual DOC, or use SDL Legit! which is a free OpenExchange application that makes this simple. This article might be useful for you: 
 
 Regards 
 Paul

Paul · Answer

Hi Lucia, 
 I guess part of your problem is that Workbench would not convert a DOCX to Bilingual DOC either, it would convert to a TTX. Perhaps you should be using this workflow? I think it's really crazy that a company working with the newer DOCX formats would want to have a Bilingual DOC. 
 They asked you for a bilingual file. This means, most likely, it could be Bilingual DOC, TTX or SDLXLIFF if the files comes from SDL Trados. The fact it was a DOCX means you can probably rule out Bilingual DOC, so I'd ask your client what format they are looking for? 
 There is another option that might work if they actually ask you for a Bilingual DOCX. Some clients seem happy with this approach. There is another tool available that allows you to just translate the DOCX as a DOCX and then convert it to either a bilingual DOC, DOCX, TTX or TMX from the SDLXLIFF you have in Studio: 
 
 Perhaps this would help you? 
 Regards 
 Paul

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how to recover multiterm 2007 after change of PC