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Translating Think-cell content

Zora Schneider

Hi

I recently had the following problem: A powerpoint presentation included some tables from excel which where connected through Think-cell. The tables were editable in powerpoint, so I assumed it would be no problem to translate them.

When I received the translated file and generated the target text I saw that the tables were still in their source language. Apparently, Trados doesn't recognize the cells as text, but as either a picture or a date.

It seemed to include the text in the cell in the tag "datetime".

Screenshot of Trados Studio showing a field tag labeled as 'datetime' instead of text within a PowerPoint table.

Now I'm wondering if anyone has ever had the same problem and how to solve this?

The manual way is too cumbersome when there are several tables in a file.

Thanks in advance!

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    I had to do some research into this Think-cell as I had never heard of it before.
    As this a not a standard feature of Excel/Powerpoint and it requires the Think-cell plugin to install, our file type processors would not know how to handle the content as you would expect.

    I assume you have both the PowerPoint and the Excel available to you?

    While I love the feature it supports you with, a quick look does not suggest they have API's by which we can develop a sensible file type for you.
    But I will keep looking out and in the meantime if you have any information that may be helpful for the AppStore Team, please do share. 

    If possible I would also love to see your file(s)

    Lyds

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    I had to do some research into this Think-cell as I had never heard of it before.
    As this a not a standard feature of Excel/Powerpoint and it requires the Think-cell plugin to install, our file type processors would not know how to handle the content as you would expect.

    I assume you have both the PowerPoint and the Excel available to you?

    While I love the feature it supports you with, a quick look does not suggest they have API's by which we can develop a sensible file type for you.
    But I will keep looking out and in the meantime if you have any information that may be helpful for the AppStore Team, please do share. 

    If possible I would also love to see your file(s)

    Lyds

    Lydia Simplicio | RWS Group

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    You've done the courses and still need to go a little further, or still not clear? 
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