MS Word 2007 / prevent translating comments

Hello, we are importing Word 2017 files into Trados 19. In the import options the "extract comments" is activatet.
My problem is that the comments (German) are also translated into English by deepl. Is it possible to prevent this?

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  • Hi

    I assume you have COM on the right hand side of your file, as I do in my example screen print?

    1. What you can do is use the advanced display filter
    2. Filter for all COM segments
    3. Batch Lock (Ctrl+Shift) them and by right clicking on the segment numbers select lock
    Once locked, you can then run your pre-translations and perform your other linguistic tasks without disrupting these COM segments

    Screenshot of Trados Studio interface showing the advanced display filter option highlighted and a red arrow pointing to the 'Filter for all COM segments' option.
    I hope this helps

    Lyds

     

    Oana Nagy | Developer Experience | QA Engineer | RWS Group

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    [edited by: Trados AI at 4:49 AM (GMT 0) on 29 Feb 2024]
  • Thank you for your tip. It works like you explained.
    But there is no way to filter just for the "COM" parts? So we could "block segment" much more easily?

    Maybe possible in Studio 2021?

    Michael

  • Thank you for confirming it worked.
    I don't know in what way we can make this more user friendly, given the display filter already does most of all the hard work?

    If you have a think, do post it to your ideas group so it can be taken into consideration. You can do this here: https://community.rws.com/ideas/translation-productivity-ideas/

    Have a good day 

     

    Oana Nagy | Developer Experience | QA Engineer | RWS Group

  • It can't be easier. Just filter out all segments as Lydia has shown above in the screenshot. When you have all COM segments displayed, select them all, then press Ctrl + Insert, then press Ctrl + L to lock all segments as is.

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  • It can't be easier. Just filter out all segments as Lydia has shown above in the screenshot. When you have all COM segments displayed, select them all, then press Ctrl + Insert, then press Ctrl + L to lock all segments as is.

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