How to keep captial letters of Word 2010 in Studio 2011

Hello and sorry if that has been answered already - I couldn't find it...

I have a Word document with all words written in captial letters. When I open it in Studio, some segments are written all in captial letters, others in a mixture of capital and lowercase letters. It does not really matter in my case, as I know I have to write everything in capitals in the target language. But it might be important in other documents - where some lines of the source are in captials and others not. Where is the option for case sensitive import of documents in Studio? Is there one?

Many thanks,

Anne

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  • Check the style in Word, where the letters appear to be capital there, but are not capital in Studio.

    You can define a style to use capital letters regardless the real case used. Studio will however usually show what was typed there.

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  • Many thanks, Jerzy. Your post made me think and play around with the Word document a bit. It turned out that the style was +headings and under effects the box for capital letters was ticked. When I unchecked it I got the same lines in captials (or not) in Word as in Studio. Which means Studio ignores the style settings under effects. Interesting. Many thanks again! Anne

  • Gladly :)

    Studio does not ignore the settings of the style, but keeps the style tags outside the text. As you say: in Word some letters appear in capitals, while others don't. In a "clean" Word file all letters should have been written in a normal case and only the style would then change them. In real life many users do not even bother the existence of styles and write however they want. overriding the style settings - this is the case in your document. Studio (and I think most if not all other modern CAT tools) will show you however exactly how the text has been written and keep the styles as tags outside. In fact this is the way I expect such tool to behave.

    Enjoy you day

    Best regards, Jerzy

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  • Gladly :)

    Studio does not ignore the settings of the style, but keeps the style tags outside the text. As you say: in Word some letters appear in capitals, while others don't. In a "clean" Word file all letters should have been written in a normal case and only the style would then change them. In real life many users do not even bother the existence of styles and write however they want. overriding the style settings - this is the case in your document. Studio (and I think most if not all other modern CAT tools) will show you however exactly how the text has been written and keep the styles as tags outside. In fact this is the way I expect such tool to behave.

    Enjoy you day

    Best regards, Jerzy

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    Want to learn more about Trados Studio? Visit the Community Hub. Have a good idea to make Trados Studio better? Publish it here.

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