Hi Tomas,

Assuming you have to show the changes as tracked changes in the translation of File C then you are best tackling this as a docx because doc will not support the track changes options.

My suggestion, and it may not be the only one would be this.  First open File A with your new TM and make sure this is translated fully.  This way you'll have the correct TM for File A (in the event the alignment wasn't too successful) and you need this in order to translate File C reflecting the changes.

Then open File C, showing the track changes, and with track change mode on use your TM and only translate the changes.  The target word file will be a DOCX with the translated changes showing as tracked changes.

Make sense?

Regards

Paul

Hi Tomas,

Assuming you have to show the changes as tracked changes in the translation of File C then you are best tackling this as a docx because doc will not support the track changes options.

My suggestion, and it may not be the only one would be this.  First open File A with your new TM and make sure this is translated fully.  This way you'll have the correct TM for File A (in the event the alignment wasn't too successful) and you need this in order to translate File C reflecting the changes.

Then open File C, showing the track changes, and with track change mode on use your TM and only translate the changes.  The target word file will be a DOCX with the translated changes showing as tracked changes.

Make sense?

Regards

Paul

Many thanks for your answer, Paul! You're so helpful, as usual!

So I've followed your advice and after opening File A (which I'd saved as a *.docx in the interim) with my newly-created TM (based on the alignment of A and B, that is) I realised that it was mainly the tag-free segments that were pre-translated and populated just fine. In other words, wherever there's a tag in a segment (which is the case with roughly half of the segments), I only get a context match at best and have to insert plenty of tags manually.

Here's hoping that once I'm done with this part and I open the updated File C, the tags will be populated by themselves and I'll only have to take care of the updated bits.

Mind you, if I eventually need to revert from the .*docx file back to a target *.doc file, will it be free from any problems?

Tomas

Hi Tomas,

Just another thought that I think may also work.

If you have the "Professional" version of Trados you could also look at the PerfectMatch functions in Studio which allow you to pre-translate a new version of the document against a previous version of the document and then work on the changed elements.

Unfortunately though this is not available in the Freelance version if you have that.

Best regards,

Phil.

Hi Phil,

Many thanks for your answer. Unfortunately, I do have the Freelance version only, so I won't be able to make use of this function. Thanks anyway, though!

Tomas

Just a quick note to say thank you for your assistance!

Tomas