can you post a sample MSWord file ?

Hi Kelly,

Sure. This is a test file similar to the documents received from the client.

Ciprian IOVU

How do we know which bits are for translation and which are not?  Is there something in the file that makes this clear?

Hi Paul,

If you download the file, you will see that the last paragraph is yellow highlighted. That is how word office shows nonrestricted text in a restricted file.

Thank you.

as you can see

Trados Studio " Knows " it from top to toe.

The two arrows (two tags) mean "Permisson to edit" Starts and "Permisson to edit" Ends

So, when The company deny or fail to give you nice solution.
I will test it.
Not now.

My idea is quite simple.

Lock segments until it reach "Permission to edit Start" tag
Then stop Lock segment until it reach "Permission to edit End" tag
and do it again and again
-of course, automatiKelly

Too Easy, right ? 

Ciprian IOVU

In this instance I think the solution to "automatiKelly" (I like that Kelly ;-)) handle this is probably your best bet, especially if you have many files like this and many areas of protected text like this.

I could not find a way to easily identify these areas in MS Word using user features and maybe change some to hidden text for example, or apply a specific style we could exclude.  So other than development (as Kelly offers) I don't think there is a simple way to handle this.

Daniel Brockmann might have a suggestion as he's pretty good with the intricacies of MS Word.

yep

I have finished testing, like I said.

I have showed you the way you could handle with yourself, already.

Now, I'm showing you the OneClickWay, all you have to do is click once.

Of course, it is a Paid service.

Regards

Thank you Paul - unfortunately, I have no idea on this either.

I added a style "tw4winInternal" to WordDocument via VBA
But...
This is quite inconvenient than the above.

Kelly Edward

Kelly Edward said:

I added a style "tw4winInternal" to WordDocument via VBA

Indeed, this should have been the easy way to go but tricky without using VBA.  In fact probably not possible unless you are able to unprotect the document first and then manually work your way through it... which could be unworkable depending on the amount of content like this.

Kelly Edward said:

Now, I'm showing you the OneClickWay, all you have to do is click once.

Of course, it is a Paid service.

That seems a neat solution and probably worth paying for if you have a lot of files like this.  I hope you get some interest with that.