How can I make Studio 2024 extract Word objects embedded in Word files for translation?

We are translating a set of Word documents bearing each quite a few Word objects embedded.

An example is the screenshot below:

Screenshot of a Word document showing the title 'Overview of Operation Procedure' and a section titled 'Overview of Software System' with a diagram comparing MCOSMOS and VISIONPAK-PRO.

Unfortunately, none of the embedded object is extracted for translation in Studio.

Please find below a screenshot of the Studio file type settings as well as SDLXLIFF preview.

Screenshot of Trados Studio file type settings under 'Common' with options like 'Extract mathematical expressions' and 'Extract contents of embedded Excel charts and sheets' checked.

Screenshot of Trados Studio file type settings under 'Embedded content' with the option 'Enable embedded content processing' unchecked and no tag definition rules added.

Screenshot of SDLXLIFF preview in Trados Studio showing segments 11 to 17, with untranslated content from embedded Word objects missing after segment 15.

In this last screenshot, the text from the Word embedded object should have been inserted after segment 15 (Basic Operation Flow in segment 16 is the subsequent heading).

The option for extracting Excel embedded files is ticked, but of course does not have an impact since the object is a Word object.

We also try to tick "Enable embedded content processing" but with no further rule added (since we have no clue of what rule we could add), and the result is the same.

We have found a kind of manual workaround (extracting the embedded items from the unzipped Word assets) but of course this takes time to reinject the embedded files back. On top of this, with very big files it may happen that you do not realize that there is embedded content until you finalize the file ending up with a lot of untranslated content and no time left to translate it.

Can anyone from RWS get back to me with some tips and tricks?

Thanks a lot,

Alessia



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[edited by: RWS Community AI at 3:02 PM (GMT 1) on 15 May 2025]
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