I am translating a package using SDL Trados 2019 and I want to unbold the target segment from a bold source. Is it possible to do that?

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I want to know is it possible to unbold the target segment from a bold source. Trados only allows to make bold target from non bold source. Can i do the other way around?

Nabil Bakri · Accepted Answer

thank you very much for your help, i managed to un-bold the target using this method. my friend suggested me to use QuickInsert, so i also tried using QuickInsert and that works as well. Once again, thank you very much...

Trados Studio interface showing the QuickInsert feature with a list of formatting options, highlighting the 'No Bold' option to force bold off in the target text.

Kelly Edward · Answer

just delete bold "Tag" 
 should a whole line is bolded - usually, Tag is hidden between lines firstly, use "Review > Display Filter > General > All content" then you see it now, delete it it could be combined with others..

Paul · Answer

Nabil Bakri 
 Just to add to what Kelly suggested, which is correct when the whole sentence is bold because Trados Studio will externalise the control tags for bold so you don't have to worry about them. This is normally because you would not unbold a sentence that was bold in the source as the idea is to mirror the source. Note that both opening and closing tags need to be deleted and this would mean you might have to then add back tags if only one sentence in a paragaph like this should be bold instead of the whole thing. So you can also drag the tags into the target segment to bold only the bits you want. 
 
 Also, if your problem is that you just don't see how to unbold something you have bolded because you don't see the tags then press Ctrl+Shift+H and this will display formatting tags (if they are not externalised as in the example above) and then you can simply delete the tags that bold the words you want unbolded.

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I am translating a package using SDL Trados 2019 and I want to unbold the target segment from a bold source. Is it possible to do that?

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