Hello I.G.T.U. 

You should be able to process this file type-

so maybe first check your Project Settings/File/File Types/Word and ensure 'Process files with tw4winMark style is not enabled (this should be disabled by default).

Studio should now handle the RTF as a bilingual file.

Does this help.

Hello I.G.T.U. (IgorUszczapowski),

Sorry-

I was meant to post the following screen shot to help you-

Thank you, Steven, for the quick response and the very useful screenshot. The function is disabled, and - as I strongly suspect - had been disabled when I encountered my difficulties. I shall rerun the attempt, however, and might come back to you, if my suspicion is confirmed, i. e. the problem persists despite the correct default.

Hi I.G.T.U.

Steven Whale, this is a total guess but should that same setting then be ticked in the RTF filetype settings so that the file is then recognised as bilingual RTF rather than Word?

It is also unticked by default.

All the best,

Ali

Hi I.G.T.U.

Have you seen the last 2 posts from me and from  ??

All the best,

Ali [:)]

Hello Alli,

you write

" ... should that same setting then be ticked in the RTF filetype settings so that the file is then recognised as bilingual RTF rather than Word?"

I take this to mean "should then NOT be ticked" - right? If this is what you meant, 'Process files with tw4winMark style' is unticked and had been unticked.

Hi I.G.T.U.

Actually, I was wondering if this box was unticked in the Word filetype settings but TICKED in the RTF file settings, whether the RTF file would then be converted correctly to SDLXLIFF.

However, I found the following on the SDL Studio Help pages:

Process files with tw4winMark
...if you want SDL Trados Studio to use the Word 2000-2003 file type or the Word 2007-2010 file type for these files instead of using the Bilingual Workbench file type. Usually, the twin4winMark style indicates that the file is bilingual and that it was produced from Trados Translator's Workbench. Note that if you disable this option, the Bilingual Workbench filter processes a non-bilingual file which has this style defined, the file type produces an empty *sdlxliff file with no segments.

Trados Translator's Workbench filetype
...file type for processing bilingual documents created in SDL Trados Translator's Workbench using Microsoft Word as a translation editor. ( *.doc; *.docx files).

The Trados Translator's Workbench filetype is actually an old filetype that was used to translate with a Trados toolbar but in Word itself. The resulting bilingual Word files usually open fine as a bilingual SDLXLIFF with the default Word filtype settings.

So, how about trying another workaround: open the file in Word, save it to to '.doc' or '.docx' then try adding that file to a new project and see if it works.

Might that work, Steven Whale?

All the best,

Ali

Hi I.G.T.U.

Actually, I was wondering if this box was unticked in the Word filetype settings but TICKED in the RTF file settings, whether the RTF file would then be converted correctly to SDLXLIFF.

However, I found the following on the SDL Studio Help pages:

Process files with tw4winMark
...if you want SDL Trados Studio to use the Word 2000-2003 file type or the Word 2007-2010 file type for these files instead of using the Bilingual Workbench file type. Usually, the twin4winMark style indicates that the file is bilingual and that it was produced from Trados Translator's Workbench. Note that if you disable this option, the Bilingual Workbench filter processes a non-bilingual file which has this style defined, the file type produces an empty *sdlxliff file with no segments.

Trados Translator's Workbench filetype
...file type for processing bilingual documents created in SDL Trados Translator's Workbench using Microsoft Word as a translation editor. ( *.doc; *.docx files).

The Trados Translator's Workbench filetype is actually an old filetype that was used to translate with a Trados toolbar but in Word itself. The resulting bilingual Word files usually open fine as a bilingual SDLXLIFF with the default Word filtype settings.

So, how about trying another workaround: open the file in Word, save it to to '.doc' or '.docx' then try adding that file to a new project and see if it works.

Might that work, Steven Whale?

All the best,

Ali