Stefanie Roth

If you show the hidden chars can you see the BiDi controls?  If you can perhaps you can remove them in the original word file?

Another alternative would be to allow Studio do do what it wants so the values are correct and then search and replace afterwards using a little regex.

Dear Paul,

Thanks for your help ... again ...

When you say hidden chars, do you mean hidden characters? I think there are no hidden characters in this particular doc because in Word, there are dotted lines below any hidden text so you can see any hidden text?

Terribly sorry but what are BiDi controls? Where are they, and what do they do?

BiDi - does that perhaps stand for bi-directional? If yes, then this would sound very promising but I have no idea what this is, what it does, nor where to find it.

Allowing Studio to do whatever it wants to do sounds great because it is more important that the values and the decimal points / commas are correct, yes this definitely is a good idea, but unfortunately, I feel unable use regex to rectify the wrong ones afterwards. A while ago, I did a Studio webinar with Jerzey Czopik (on a different topic), and he mentioned regex, and it sounded awfully complicated. After all, I am a translator, so my knowledge of programming or code-writing is rather limited (i.e. non-existent) .... 

Or is there any easy way of using regex in this case?

I would even be willing to correct the wrong ones manually if only Word would let me do that. Like I said, it keeps “jumping” back to the wrong direction once I touch a table cell.

I managed to correct some of them manually “by force“ (i.e. typing the whole thing again from scratch, including the figures) but there is still a problem. What I need in German is the figure, then a blank space, and then the percentage sign. And even if I manage to correct the direction by re-tying absolutely everything, Word will not let me insert the blank space. Once I insert the required blank space, it “jumps” back to the Hebrew direction again.

Oh and, did I mention that in the Studio Editor window, while I am translating, everything looks totally fine! The problem only occurs after I have used the Save target as function ...

Am feeling totally bewildered ...

Thanks again for any help,

Stef

Dear Paul,

Thanks for your help ... again ...

When you say hidden chars, do you mean hidden characters? I think there are no hidden characters in this particular doc because in Word, there are dotted lines below any hidden text so you can see any hidden text?

Terribly sorry but what are BiDi controls? Where are they, and what do they do?

BiDi - does that perhaps stand for bi-directional? If yes, then this would sound very promising but I have no idea what this is, what it does, nor where to find it.

Allowing Studio to do whatever it wants to do sounds great because it is more important that the values and the decimal points / commas are correct, yes this definitely is a good idea, but unfortunately, I feel unable use regex to rectify the wrong ones afterwards. A while ago, I did a Studio webinar with Jerzey Czopik (on a different topic), and he mentioned regex, and it sounded awfully complicated. After all, I am a translator, so my knowledge of programming or code-writing is rather limited (i.e. non-existent) .... 

Or is there any easy way of using regex in this case?

I would even be willing to correct the wrong ones manually if only Word would let me do that. Like I said, it keeps “jumping” back to the wrong direction once I touch a table cell.

I managed to correct some of them manually “by force“ (i.e. typing the whole thing again from scratch, including the figures) but there is still a problem. What I need in German is the figure, then a blank space, and then the percentage sign. And even if I manage to correct the direction by re-tying absolutely everything, Word will not let me insert the blank space. Once I insert the required blank space, it “jumps” back to the Hebrew direction again.

Oh and, did I mention that in the Studio Editor window, while I am translating, everything looks totally fine! The problem only occurs after I have used the Save target as function ...

Am feeling totally bewildered ...

Thanks again for any help,

Stef