How to create a Bilingual excel sheet after translation is done?

Hi,

I usually receive an excel file to work on Trados and I need to create a English-Japanese bilingual excel file for delivery.

Below is what I want looks like , but

text_id value Target Language
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most of the case what I get looks like below;

text_id value Target Language
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Could you kindly advise me what to do and if I give you more information, just let me know.

Kind regards,

Shihoko Sato

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  • Hi Shihoko,

    Based on what you've said you could always save it as xlsx... but if you don't want to do that you could use this approach:

    This would require you downsaving to CSV though and I reckon upsaving to xlsx would be a better bet.

    If you don't wish to do either of these things then do this:

    1. Copy your source column into the target column in Excel
    2. Hide all columns apart from the target column in Excel
    3. Translate the file in Studio
    4. Save the target file and unhide the columns

    This works fine unless you already have some translated content in the target column.  If you do then you could use Excel to copy source to target unless there is already target there, but it gets messy.  I reckon your best bet is to upsave to xlsx.

    Regards

    Paul

    Paul Filkin | RWS Group

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