Issue processing hidden text with hyperlinks in Word

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Hello, 
 I'm hoping someone can help me. 
 I'm trying to prepare a Word doc for translation by hiding lines of text that should not be captured for translation. The issue I'm encountering is that when the hidden text contains a hyperlink, it gets captured in the editor as inline tags, even when there is no translatable text in the segment. 
 I created an example file so you can see what I mean - here is a screenshot from Studio 2019 (I also tested 2022 with the same result). You can see that most of these segments do not contain any translatable text, just tags: 
 
 (BTW I used all of the default file type settings. I tried the "extract hyperlinks" option both enabled and disabled but it doesn't affect the hidden text behavior, either way.) 
 I also ran this exact same file in Studio 2014 and actually got the result that I would expect -- only 2 segments available for translation: 
 
 Am I doing something wrong here? I'd prefer not to use 2014 if I don't have to. 
 There are hundreds of these "hidden hyperlink" segments in my client's project, and relatively few segments that actually need translation. This amounts to a lot of unnecessary busy work for my linguists, on top of the fact that these extra segments are polluting the TMs. 
 Any input would be appreciated. Thank you!

Paul · Accepted Answer

Katherine Losey Jesús Prieto 
 It does feel like a bug to me so I'll log it. 
 In the meantime, you could also try using styles. I added the tw4winExternal style to the links I didn't want and this worked: 
 
 The "Hidden" links show up as you can see but the ones I used the style for produce the desired result. You don't have to use tw4win styles as you can create your own to suit and add them to the filetype. I just used this as it was a predefined style

Jesús Prieto · Answer

Katherine Losey , 
 I can repro your issue in Trados Studio 2022 and I agree that the behaviour is not what I&rsquo;d expect. 
 Let&rsquo;s see if Paul has anything to say here. 
 Meanwhile, this workaround may work for you in order to avoid linguists losing time with these hidden segments: 
 
 In Advanced Filter Display , type Text value in the Target field . 
 Tick Search in tag content check box. 
 Select Search only in tag content radio button. 
 Press Apply Filter button.

Now select all segments in the Editor, right click to Copy Source to Target , set them as Translated and Lock them.

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Issue processing hidden text with hyperlinks in Word

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