Under normal circumstances, numbers (thousads- and decimal separator) should be localized automatically:

Dear Even Polenka

Thanks for your very kind suggestion.

My Trados Studio 2017 SR1 is configured using the Auto-Substitution (on both Project Settings and Options), including numbers, as shown on your message, but such setting is not working correctly.

I am translating a very big Chemical Patent Text (Project with 270 pages), that was sent by an USA-Customer as a "Project Package".

The said Project Package contains the "Project.docx.sdlxlift" file that was first submitted to  "Automatic Translation".

Unfortunately the "Automatic Translation", based on the USA-Customer's Translation Memory database, does not copy accurately each Source Segment containing ¹H NMR number data to the respective Target Segment, and does not replace a dot (.) in each number with a comma (,). Thus, it is necessary to copy each Source Segment containing the ¹H NMR number data to the respective Target Segment, and, then, to replace manually each dot (.) in each number with a comma (,), which is a very laborious and tiresome work, because the said Project has a huge number of Organic Compound Synthesis Examples containing ¹H NMR number data.

Perhaps I could use the "Advanced Display Filter" in order to show only the non-Translated Target Segments (containing the ¹H NMR number data) and, then, replace each dot in each number with a comma, using "Find and replace".

Do you have another suggestion?

Thank you very much for your kind attention,

Best regards,

Renato Colonna Rosman

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Dear Jerzy Czopik

Thank you very much for your suggestion. I will try it, as soon as possible.

Using your suggestion on a non-Target Segment as, for example." ¹H-NMR-number-data as, for example: "¹H NMR (400 MHz, CDCl₃): δ 8.38 (d, J = 4.6 Hz, 1H), 8.00 (dd, J = 8.8, 5.5 Hz, 2H), 7.44 (d, J = 4.6 Hz, 1H), 7.09 (t, J = 8.8 Hz, 2H), 4.41 – 4.14 (m, 4H), 4.05 – 3.75 (m, 4H), 1.37 (s, 9H)."- will replace the dot (in each number) with a comma, as shown below?

 "¹H NMR (400 MHz, CDCl₃): δ 8,38 (d, J = 4,6 Hz, 1H), 8,00 (dd, J = 8,8, 5,5 Hz, 2H), 7,44 (d, J = 4,6 Hz, 1H), 7,09 (t, J = 8,8 Hz, 2H), 4,41 – 4,14 (m, 4H), 4,05 – 3,75 (m, 4H), 1,37 (s, 9H)."

Thanks.

Renato Rosman

Dear Jerzy Czopik

Thank you very much for your kind attention and suggestion!

The suggestion (regular expression) of Paul Filkin, as shown below, works perfectly:

"Paul Filkin:

Hi Renato Colonna Rosman ,

I'm wondering if I missed the requirement. Can't you use this?

Search:
([0-9])\.([0-9])

Replace:
$1,$2

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Again, thank you very much for your kind attention,
Best regards,
Renato Colonna Rosman

Dear Paul Filkin

Your suggestion (regular expression) works perfectly!

For example on the Target Segment containing " ¹H NMR (500 MHz, CDCl₃) d 8.04 (s, 1H), 7.69-7.58 (m, 2H), 7.40 (d, J = 4.5 Hz, 1H), 7.35 (d, J = 4.5 Hz, 1H), 7.25 (s, 2H), 7.03 (dd, J = 7.8, 0.6 Hz, 1H), 6.97 (t, J = 8.7 Hz, 2H), 4.39 (t, J = 4.9 Hz, 2H), 4.06 (t, J = 4.9 Hz, 2H), 3.62 (s, 2H), 3.56 (s, 2H), 1.58 (s, 6H).", each dot (.) in each number (and inside parentheses) is replaced with a comma (,) using your regular expression, and the Target Segment is modified to:  "¹H NMR (500 MHz, CDCl₃) d 8,04 (s, 1H), 7,69-7,58 (m, 2H), 7,40 (d, J = 4,5 Hz, 1H), 7,35 (d, J = 4,5 Hz, 1H), 7,25 (s, 2H), 7,03 (dd, J = 7,8, 0,6 Hz, 1H), 6,97 (t, J = 8,7 Hz, 2H), 4,39 (t, J = 4,9 Hz, 2H), 4,06 (t, J = 4,9 Hz, 2H), 3,62 (s, 2H), 3,56 (s, 2H), 1,58 (s, 6H)".

Thank you very much for your kind attention and suggestion!

Best regards,

Renato Colonna Rosman

Unknown said:

This is of course correct, if you just need to change 9.1 to 9,1
But should you have 1,000,000.0 and like to change to 1.000.000,0 - then this won't work.

Of course.  But the original question already did this very replacement in Word, so I think all that was required was an explanation of how to do the same thing in Studio.