Shirley Yeng 

I think the problem is related to the colouring as these are tagged by default and get in the way of the expression matching correctly.  If I remove the highlighting I can exclude the whole sentence without a problem.

Can you remove the highlighting?

Hello Paul,

My project cannot follow your suggestion because besides highlighting text, there are also subscript and superscript text, and there is a lot of content.

In this case, your suggestion may not be practical.

Hello Paul,

My project cannot follow your suggestion because besides highlighting text, there are also subscript and superscript text, and there is a lot of content.

In this case, your suggestion may not be practical.

Shirley Yeng 

Does the highlighting you showed really represent exactly what you see?  For example, is only the first part of the paragraph you should not translate highlighted in yellow, or did you just create something you thought might help you get an answer?  So is this correct and meaning don't translate any of this text that has a highlighted bit at the start:

Or does it just mean don't translate the highlighted part?

If you really meant don't translate the whole paragraph when it starts with this highlighted text then you could do it by running a macro in Word to add the hidden attribute to the entire paragraph when it starts with this formatting.  For example:

Sub HideHighlightedParagraphs()
    Dim oPara As Paragraph

    ' Loop through each paragraph
    For Each oPara In ActiveDocument.Paragraphs
        ' Check if the first character is highlighted
        If oPara.Range.Characters(1).HighlightColorIndex <> wdNoHighlight Then
            ' Hide the paragraph
            oPara.Range.Font.Hidden = True
        End If
    Next
End Sub

Trados Studio will exclude this formatted text from translation by default.

Then when you're done reverse the process to remove the hidden attribute from these same paragraphs with this script:

Sub UnhideHighlightedParagraphs()
    Dim oPara As Paragraph

    ' Loop through each paragraph
    For Each oPara In ActiveDocument.Paragraphs
        ' Check if the first character is highlighted
        If oPara.Range.Characters(1).HighlightColorIndex <> wdNoHighlight Then
            ' Unhide the paragraph
            oPara.Range.Font.Hidden = False
        End If
    Next
End Sub

You can insert these macros as follows:

1. Open your Word document.
2. Press ALT + F11 to open the VBA editor.
3. Click Insert from the menu, then click Module to create a new module.
4. Copy and paste the code into the module
5. Close the VBA editor.
6. Press ALT + F8, select HideHighlightedParagraphs or UnhideHighlightedParagraphs from the list, and click Run as appropriate.

Hello Paul,

Thank you for your help.

In fact, the customer requested that certain words at the beginning of the content should not be translated.
In my example, it can be understood that anything after "Test" in a sentence should not be translated.
However, there may be various special formats following "Test", not just highlighting.

Shirley Yeng 

Shirley Yeng said:

In my example, it can be understood that anything after "Test" in a sentence should not be translated.

In a sentence or a paragraph?  Does this mean you don't translate this... just the highlighted text:

Or this... just the sentence after and including the highlighted text:

Or this... the complete paragraph following the highlighted text:

If there is some sort of clear rule it should be reasonably straightforward to handle with a Word macro.