Hi

You can use OpenOffice and save the table as Execl, AFAIK this should work.

And this will certainly be less effort, than creating a termbase from scratch and filling it with terms from Word.

There is AFAIK no direct way from Word to MT. So in Word convert the text to table, copy the table to OpenOffice, save as Excel and use the Multiterm Convert process or the open exchange Glossary Converter (the last one works perfectly for termbases with only language data inside, with no additional fields).

ebardoul said:

The document is a small one. What steps do i need to do to create the Termbase on MultiTerm and then add the terms to it on Studio?

What is an easy way to manage this ?

Hi Evelyne,

In this case perhaps all you need to do is create a new termbase in MultiTerm and then open the files you previously translated in Studio and add the terms from there?  So to create a simple termbase in MultiTerm just start MultiTerm and then follow these steps... I created a video as this is the easiest way to show this I think:

You then open Studio and add your termbase in here...

Tools -> Options -> Language Pairs -> All Language pairs -> Translation Memory and Automated Translation -> Termbases

Now whenever you open a file for translation this termbase will automatically be selected for use.  So, I can open a file that I have already translated (I cheated as I used BeGlobal to get the French) and can then add terms like this.  First I select a term in the source and then again in the target, and then I right-click on one of the terms and choose "Add New Term (note that I also set a shortcut for this to avoid needing the mouse)":

This opens the Termbase Viewer where you can edit the words if you like, or just save as shown by clicking on the little blue disk symbol:

Now when you enter that segment you will also see this result showing in the Term Recognition window here:

You then repeat for all the terms you need.  So a little long winded compared to a conversion from excel, but if there are not too many this works and it'll be useful for future documents as you can add the terms as you work.

Regards

Paul