Hello!
I am working on a regular Word file and, at some point, "behind" a table, Trados must have seen a lot of HIDDEN TEXT, which is not visible in the Word file but is shown in the Trados Editor.
In fact, there is a great word count difference between Word and Trados. Obviously this text should NOT be translated.
How can I remove it, so that Trados does not include it in the view and word count?
Thanks for help!
Valeria
Hi Valeria Maria Tafel ,
If it is only one chunk of text, in Trados Studio I’d select the segments corresponding to the chunk you don’t want to translate and lock them. Then run Batch Tasks > Analyse excluding Locked segments. I think this is fastest way.
Another way: In Word select the text you don’t want to be extracted, and format it as hidden. Then you need to re-open the updated Word file in Trados Studio (by default, hidden text is not extracted). Translate as usual and don’t forget to unhide the text in Word after generating the target document.
Hidden text is set in Word on the Font dialog box. It may be shown in Word with this underline format:
Has your hidden text in Word this formatting? If so, it’s hidden text. Another possibility is that the text is not really hidden, but has white colour or is behind an image (in these 2 cases you don’t really see the text in Word unless you select it or delete temporarily the image). You have de final say…
Now, by default, hidden text it’s not extracted by Trados Studio. You can check your Project Settings here (if it’s a DOCX file, or under Microsoft Word 97-2003 if it's a DOC file):
If this check box is ticked, your hidden text will be extracted by Trados Studio.
Hidden text is set in Word on the Font dialog box. It may be shown in Word with this underline format:
Has your hidden text in Word this formatting? If so, it’s hidden text. Another possibility is that the text is not really hidden, but has white colour or is behind an image (in these 2 cases you don’t really see the text in Word unless you select it or delete temporarily the image). You have de final say…
Now, by default, hidden text it’s not extracted by Trados Studio. You can check your Project Settings here (if it’s a DOCX file, or under Microsoft Word 97-2003 if it's a DOC file):
If this check box is ticked, your hidden text will be extracted by Trados Studio.
Ok it's certainly behind an image. I identified the segments that are not shown in the Word file and all the text is certainly somehow "behind" a couple of images. But the absurd thing is that the images are 2 quite small and very normal charts, but they correspond to ... 2,800 segments in Trados!!!
How is that possible???
2,800 segments is indeed a big number... If you post the document (or part of the document with that text behind images) I can have a look at it.
Hi Jesùs, I prepared a small file with the strange tables included, but I would prefer to send it to you through a private email for your check. Can you provide one? Thank you. I would really like to understand what is happening with these 2 tables...
@Hi Valeria Maria Tafel ,
I’ve sent you my email on a private message to you. I think you need to click on this icon at the top of the Community web pae:
Do you see it?
Just to close off this:
I checked the files Valeria Maria Tafel sent, and I confirm that the text was included in Excel Charts embedded in the Word document. This text was extracted by Trados Studio because the Extract contents of embedded Excel charts and sheets checkbox was ticked in Project Settings.
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