Removing italics in target segment when source segment is completely in italics

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Dear all, 
 As always, I'm sorry if someone already asked about this, but I spent some time looking through the forum and couldn't find the answer. 
 My question is simple: If I have a source segment completely in italics (I cannot see any tags on the segment), how can I change the format of a specific word in the target segment? 
 See this example: 
 
 Is there any way to remove the italics on "paper"? 
 Thanks! 
 Dami&aacute;n

Antonie Pluk · Answer

I know I am replying to this conversation many months late, but I had this issue and I just discovered how to do it. 
 
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 lelect "No Italics" to force the italics off by inserting the appropriate tag. No need to wait to generate the file anymore! 
 
Antonie Pluk

Louis LaBonté · Answer

Merci beaucoup, Antonie! Je sais que cette r&eacute;ponse date de trois ans, mais je ne connaissais pas cette astuce, qui r&eacute;pond parfaitement &agrave; la question de Dami&aacute;n Santilli et m&eacute;riterait d'&ecirc;tre beaucoup mieux connue! Pour les utilisateurs de la version fran&ccedil;aise, je pr&eacute;cise que le chemin &agrave; suivre est le suivant : onglet Accueil > section QuickInsert > ic&ocirc;ne dans le coin inf&eacute;rieur droit &raquo;. On obtient alors la fen&ecirc;tre d'option suivante, o&ugrave; l'on peut choisir &laquo; Aucun gras &raquo;, &laquo; Aucun italique &raquo;, &laquo; Aucun soulignement &raquo;, etc. : 
 
 In English, here is the equivalent screenshot :

Jerzy Czopik · Answer

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.

Paul · Answer

Hi Damián Santilli , 
 
Depends on the type of file it is. Not all filetypes will support you doing things like that. But if it's a word file just select the word and use the normal word shortcuts... or the shortcuts in the ribbon. 
 
You can't remove italics from the entire segment as these have been moved outside the segment so you don't have to deal with them. Although you may find them if you display all the content using the display filter and you may be able to remove them that way. 
 
Regards 
 
Paul

Paul · Answer

Hi Damián Santilli 
 Unknown said: But I didn't know there was a shortcut in Trados's ribbon to apply normal text to a word in italics in a segment completely in italics. 
 I've led you up the garden path here. You cannot do that unfortunately. Even if you do it in word if you look at the tags in Studio afterwards the action is actually performed by making everything apart from the text you want to be in italics. So this: 
 
 Would become this if you highlighted the words "the italics" and pressed Ctrl+I: 
 
 Based on this flimsy investigation there doesn't seem to be a tag for normal text. Studio isn't supposed to be a word processor so I think this action would be very complex to achieve. Interesting though... odd I've never come across this before. 
 Regards 
 Paul

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