Hi Paul,

I recently bought Studio 2021 and am having a similar problem: I'm translating a long German lawsuit that involves in a trial in England so it's full of millions of individual English terms, all of which are italicized in the original and none of which should be italicized in the English translation..Unlike the previous versions of Studio, I can't just use Remove formatting or Ctrl+i to get rid of them. I'm also unable to display the formatting tags so I can't remove the formatting tags that are the "culprits". Often just one single italicized word in the original will convert the entire target section to iitalics! Also when I try to overtype the first word in the segment everything appears in italics so I have to start overtyping in the middle of the first to avoid the invisible tags. I'm having the same problem with unwanted highlighting. This is a very serious problem since I'm  supposed to deliver perfectly formatted sdlxliff files. I suspect the idea is to simplify things for beginners somehow but it's really a giant step backwards. Can you please tell me how to get rid of the unwanted formatting? 

Hi Paul,

I recently bought Studio 2021 and am having a similar problem: I'm translating a long German lawsuit that involves in a trial in England so it's full of millions of individual English terms, all of which are italicized in the original and none of which should be italicized in the English translation..Unlike the previous versions of Studio, I can't just use Remove formatting or Ctrl+i to get rid of them. I'm also unable to display the formatting tags so I can't remove the formatting tags that are the "culprits". Often just one single italicized word in the original will convert the entire target section to iitalics! Also when I try to overtype the first word in the segment everything appears in italics so I have to start overtyping in the middle of the first to avoid the invisible tags. I'm having the same problem with unwanted highlighting. This is a very serious problem since I'm  supposed to deliver perfectly formatted sdlxliff files. I suspect the idea is to simplify things for beginners somehow but it's really a giant step backwards. Can you please tell me how to get rid of the unwanted formatting? 

William Stein

The most easy way will be to open the file in Word, run a search and replace for italics and replace it with no italics.

Otherwise go to File -> Options -> Editor and chose to display only tags, no formatting. To remove existing formatting from a target segment, press CTRL+A and CTRL+Space bar. It does the same as in Word, all formatting will be resetted to what is in the style.

Hello William,

This happens when Studio leaves out the formatting tags for all-italics segment.

I am not on Studio 2021, but I strongly suggest you follow these instructions (as I already posted here 3 years ago) :

In Editior view, select the text you want to remove the italics. Then, under the "Home" tab, go to the QuickInsert section and click on the little button on the bottom right corner of the section.

When the Insert Tag window appears, all you have left to do is select "No Italics" to force the italics off by inserting the appropriate tag.

Let me know if it works!

Unfortunately, the client sends me xliff files instead of the original Word files but "Ctrl+A" followed by "Ctrl+Spacebar" works perfectly, thanks a lot Jerzy, Maybe this should be a separate question, but can you tell me how to add highlighting to the relevant words?

Thanks, I saw your message but I couldn't find QuickInsert in Studio 2021, at least it's not on the Home menu anymore. That looks like a brilliant feature, why would anybody eliminate that? . 

It depends on the source format. In certain formats you cannot add any formatting. For Word, use this:

You can find much more useful information here: https://multifarious.filkin.com/2012/10/17/colouredworld/ and here multifarious.filkin.com/.../

You guys are fantastic, thanks again!

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