strange..
If I were You, I just delete Tags (head tag and tail tag) part only at target segment

Hi Hoon,

That's exactly what I was looking to get (not by changing the formatting in the source file but by using the available functions in Studio), but my Studio 2017 wouldn't let me do that.  This is what mine looks like if I remove the tags in the target segment.

If yours works and mine doesn't, then maybe I need to change my current settings.  The problem is I don't know which one to change, if there is one.

Thank you for all of your input:)

Chunyi

I guess You do not know what the "Tag" means.
If I wrong. Sorry, Your post is beyond my knowledge.

Unknown said:

This is what mine looks like if I remove the tags in the target segment.

This is because in your case the entire segment is italicized, so Studio moved the italic tags outside the segment. Change your editor view to "All Content" and you will see the tags in the 'inter-segment' rows.

You can try to remove the italic tags in this view, but I'm not sure if Studio will let you. The possibility to do such special operations depends on the source format, perhaps for Word files and such kind of edits it's possible.

sounds plausible
because, it reminds me the pseudo_stupido Error when using DisplayFilter to fiter out/in Colors (whole segment colors)

but, on second thought
nah, neegative

the above main post screenshot, you can see italic tags
if the italic is applied to whole segement, you can not see italic tags
so, the owner of this post does not have whole formatiing of it
(unless (s)he mixed something with screenshots)

how many is it ?
if it is less then a dozen, i'd recommend you to handle .sdlxliff directly
if it is over several dozens, you'd better use PlugIns
PlugIns is nothing else just doing the same thing easily and fastly using codes - in one single Click.

regards

Unknown said:

If yours works and mine doesn't, then maybe I need to change my current settings.  The problem is I don't know which one to change, if there is one.

Hi Chunyi Chen 

It does not work for Hoon Kim either, he's misunderstood the point.  Evzen was correct in that your tags are externalised so the only way to remove them would be to delete them in the All Content filtered view.  This would be a lot more work than doing it in the target file where you might be able to do a search & replace of the formatting.

Unknown said:

If yours works and mine doesn't, then maybe I need to change my current settings.  The problem is I don't know which one to change, if there is one.

Hi Chunyi Chen 

It does not work for Hoon Kim either, he's misunderstood the point.  Evzen was correct in that your tags are externalised so the only way to remove them would be to delete them in the All Content filtered view.  This would be a lot more work than doing it in the target file where you might be able to do a search & replace of the formatting.

Unknown said:

Does Studio 2019 handle these formatting matters differently?

No... exactly the same.