I use Studio 2021, and the source file is a ".docx".
When trying to generate the target translation, I got the message "Sequence contains no matching element". I don't have any comment in the project and I have verify that the source file doesn't have any XML hidden tag.
Could you please assist?
Thank you,
Diana
Hello Diana Delgado ,
Please follow the steps from this article and let me know if you could solve your issue:
Ana-Maria Matefi | RWS Group
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Dear Ana-Maria,
Thank you for your answer, but the file is a Word document, not an Excel.
Any other idea?
Thanks,
Diana
the file is a Word document, not an Excel.
Might still work – certainly worth a try! Did you try?
Yes, I tried, but it didn't work. 
If you create a copy of the source Word document in Windows Explorer and pretranslate this copy file against the TM, do you still get the same error?
Hi Jesús,
Yes, I copied as "doc" but I had the same error. I have also cleaned the document of tags and everything...
Try opening the same source file, renamed as you wish, this time don’t pre-translate, and generate the target. Does it work this time?
HI Jesus,
No, it gives the same error
No, it gives the same error
It seems there is an issue with the document itself.
I'd do the following: split the Word document in 2, and open each in Trados Studio (again, without pre-translating) and then generate both targets. My guess is that probably one of them will be OK and the other one will throw the same error. Repeat again the process with the offending half-file, and after some iterations, you’ll find out the paragraph with something weird (a white square, a weird character…). I’ve done that with long documents (over 100-pages long) and it shouldn’t take more than 30 minutes. Then you can edit that paragraph in the source document.
Does the Word document come from a PDF maybe? If so, I’d ask the client for the source file; it’s always better than working with PDFs.
No, it gives the same error
It seems there is an issue with the document itself.
I'd do the following: split the Word document in 2, and open each in Trados Studio (again, without pre-translating) and then generate both targets. My guess is that probably one of them will be OK and the other one will throw the same error. Repeat again the process with the offending half-file, and after some iterations, you’ll find out the paragraph with something weird (a white square, a weird character…). I’ve done that with long documents (over 100-pages long) and it shouldn’t take more than 30 minutes. Then you can edit that paragraph in the source document.
Does the Word document come from a PDF maybe? If so, I’d ask the client for the source file; it’s always better than working with PDFs.
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