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

Damián Santilli

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!

Damián
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    Hi ,

    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

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  • 0 in reply to Paul
    Thank you for your answer, Paul.
    I'm afraid there's no Word shortcut for applying normal text that I know of. In Word, if a part of the text is in italics, you just hit Ctrl+I and the italics is removed. In the example above, I cannot do that in Trados. 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. Where can I find it? That would solve my problem with this Word file.
    Nonetheless, thanks for letting me know there's another way with the Display filter. The problem is that I have to remove the format for the whole paragraph (font type and italics) to then re-apply italics to everything but the word that doesn't need italics ("paper"). But for now I think it'll work.
    Thanks again!

    Damián
  • 0 in reply to Damián Santilli

    Hi  

    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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  • 0 in reply to Paul
    Thank you again for your answer, Paul.
    I don't know if this is the case for other languages, but in Spanish if you're using a word from another language into your text, you should write it in italics. That's the norm. Now, if the whole text is in italics, you need to write the word in normal text since you need to make it stand out.
    I've been testing the option of deleting the tags that are outside the segment, but it's too complicated because, as you know, the tags also include font type, size, and other formatting in addition to italics. So I'll stick to changing from italics to normal text after exporting the translation.
    Thanks a bunch!

    Damián
  • 0 in reply to Damián Santilli
    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
  • 0 in reply to Antonie Pluk

    Thanks from me too! So easy when you know how.
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