Alignment with Excel Files does not correspond to the Row Numbers.

Question

Hello. 
 
 I have 1 source file (English) and 1 target file (Japanese) to align. 
 Both contain exactly the same number of rows (3159) and columns (1). 
 
 What I am aiming for is to have an alignment result which has a simple 1:1 connection for every row. 
 However, once I put them in Trados to do the alignment, I get a quite messy result (eg. row 1 connected to row 1,2,3) 
 
 I know how to disconnect and connect the segments, but since the file is big, 1 gap creates a tremendous amount of workload to fix the whole alignment file. 
 
 Does anyone know how to make the alignment to correspond to the row numbers of Excel? 
 
 Thank you.

Paul Filkin · Accepted Answer

RM 
 Why align them at all? If you do that you need to address segmentation differences between the languages. If they are as clear as that just do this: 
 
 copy the JP into the EN Excel file so the rows are all aligned 
 convert the Excel into a TM 
 
 You can convert the Excel a number of was: 
 
 open in Studio using the bilingual Excel filetype and then just update into a TM, OR 
 use the Glossary Converter from the AppStore which can convert the Excel directly into an SDLTM, OR 
 ... probably many other ways but the two above are the easiest.

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Alignment with Excel Files does not correspond to the Row Numbers.

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