How to exclude master slide from ppt translations?

Hello,

In the Options>File Types>Microsoft PowerPoint 2007-2013 I don't see this option in exclusions... but I thought I'd still ask. Maybe someone knew a way in ppt itself to prevent header/footer text that appears in every slide as part of the master from appearing in Trados. 

Putting one, 7-page ppt into trados produces this:

This goes down to segment 28. It's a Japanese to English translation, so that part would remain the same in the translated English document. Of course, it could be solved quickly by ctrl+ins, confirming then auto-propagating, but I was doing this for money, these repeats would have a nominal fee when I'd prefer them to be excluded. 

Any thoughts?

Best regards,
Keenan

  • Hi Keenan,

    You have two ways to do this if you have the source file to play with.  The first would be to just not use the available Master data in your files.  So If you turn off the options to insert this master slide data in the powerpoint then it will not be brought into the translation at all:

     

    So I get this:

    As opposed to this:

    If you have this and can't get access to the source file for some reason then you can still handle it.  If you look at the DSI (Document Structure Information) column on the right you'll see I have the acronym PHF+.  If I click it I see this:

    I can use the Advanced Display Filter to select all the ones that have the PHF structure like this:

    Then just lock them and they can be excluded from your analysis and from having to deal with them in your translation.  In your file you have TB+ because there are other structure types in there too.  Just use whichever one is appropriate to handle the content in your files.

    Hope that helps?

    Regards

    Paul

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  • Hi Paul Filkin,

    And I wonder how to exclude all the guides in my ppt file, when I want to translate the presentation in Studio 2017? For instance 'Image Placeholder, 'Image area guide' etc.
    I only want to see (and count) the words in the presentation itself. Thank you in advance.

    Mette, Denmark