Hi Alireza Nadry 

Generally Evzen is correct about these things... he's not in this case as you can introduce simple formatting into a supported file such as Word.  I tested your file and when I look at the target text that is supposed to be bold it is apparently bold:

This is very odd though because if I make some other text bold you can definitely see the difference.  So I selected the text and "unbolded it" and now it clearly displays as bold even though the control says it is not:

So I went back to Studio and discovered two interesting things:

1. The ability to use these formatting tags only works with Studio under the following conditions:
   • there must either be similar formatting tags in the source file somewhere, or
   • there must be another file open for translation that has formatting tags in it
2. If I use a European target language then the formatting displays perfectly

I'll log this with the development team for investigation as something is not working correctly.

Regards

Paul

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he's not in this case as you can introduce simple formatting into a supported file such as Word.

Hmmm, is this visibly documented somewhere in details? Like what exactly this "simple formatting" is and which exactly the "supported formats" are?
I guess if it would be, we wouldn't see such kind of reports/questions like every month or so.

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So I went back to Studio and discovered two interesting things:

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Hmmm, is this visibly documented somewhere in details? Like what exactly this "simple formatting" is and which exactly the "supported formats" are?
I guess if it would be, we wouldn't see such kind of reports/questions like every month or so.

Interesting question Evzen.  Does this look familiar to you?

Same capability has always been in Trados applications for files that support them.  This mostly applies to Office and predefined ml formats as we don't always know what controls are needed to make a text bold... so in custom XML for example?  You can see in the toolbar what simple formats are available for the filetypes you open.  If they are greyed out then they are not available.

You can read more in the help if you look for Quick Insert which has been sold over and over by our marketing team... so much so it can be quite hard to convince translators to use the tags in the source instead!

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Same capability has always been in Trados applications for files that support them.  This mostly applies to Office and predefined ml formats as we don't always know what controls are needed to make a text bold... so in custom XML for example?  You can see in the toolbar what simple formats are available for the filetypes you open.  If they are greyed out then they are not available.

You can read more in the help if you look for Quick Insert which has been sold over and over by our marketing team... so much so it can be quite hard to convince translators to use the tags in the source instead!

My question was about a clear list of types of formatting and file formats. "Try and see if/what is possible" is not really acceptable answer.

Quick Insert is about inserting tags which are present already in the source segment, it does not apply to this discussed adding of formatting which is not present in source segment.

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Quick Insert is about inserting tags which are present already in the source segment, it does not apply to this discussed adding of formatting which is not present in source segment.

You are confusing QuickInsert with QuickPlace.  Easily done... I did it too!

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My question was about a clear list of types of formatting and file formats. "Try and see if/what is possible" is not really acceptable answer.

ok - I don't think we specifically publish this so I'll ask for the help to be updated.  But I imagine, as I imagine you can too, that it will be:

• All Office formats
• html and derivatives
• InDesign
• PDF
• FrameMaker
• InCopy
• OpenDocument formats

That's probably more or less it (I think) because anything else could have custom controls that we won't know about.  The formatting is usually the same simple options in each one:

• bold
• italic
• underline
• superscript/subscript
• apply small caps

I guess it's helpful to explain as much as we can, so thank you for the prompt Evzen.  We may be missing this sort of info since the Trados days!

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You are confusing QuickInsert with QuickPlace.  Easily done... I did it too!

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I don't think we specifically publish this so I'll ask for the help to be updated

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• InDesign