Hi Nora,

Here's the process I used:

PART I
1. Open SDL Legit .
2. Mark "Convert to bilingual Doc"
3. Choose the file
4. Choose English as source
5. Choose Croatian as target
6. Click convert, wait.

PART II
1. Open the coverted file
2. Click "Style" (bottom right-hand corner arrow)
3. Look for "TwinMark"
4. Delete it
5. Save file

Part III

1. Open the file in Trados Studio 2015 (translate single file, load related TM)
2. Translate the file
3. Save target as

Part IV

1. Open the file in Word
2. Scream

Any help you could suggest would be really appreciated. If it helps, I could send you the files in question offline to an email address you provide.

Thanks again,

Sanda

P.S.

I hope this answers your question... if not, can you please clarify what you mean by what filter I"m using.

Hi Sanda,

Studio is capable of processing bilingual Word files without the extra steps, and as Paul has explained, the tw4win style is needed to create the structure of the bilingual file, so you shouldn't delete it.

If you really need a bilingual DOC file, try this:

PART I - SDL Legit

1. Open SDL Legit

2. Mark "Convert to bilingual Doc"

3. Choose the file

4. Choose English as source

5. Choose Croatian as target

6. Click convert, wait.

PART II - SDL Trados Studio

First, check if you have the Bilingual Workbench file type (also called a filter) enabled. Do this by going either to Options (for a single file) or Project Settings (if your file is to be part of a project), then File Types and check that you have a file type called SDL Trados Translator's Workbench installed and active. If you don't, you can install it easily by clicking the blue link on the right:

The SDL Trados Translator Workbench file type is the correct filter for files prepared with SDL Legit. If you don't have it installed, Studio will try to open the file with one of the regular Word filters (most likely the Microsoft Word 2000-2003 filter), which will lead to some problems. In other words, SDL Legit files are useless in Studio unless you have the SDL Trados Translator Workbench file type.

In your case I'm going to venture a guess and say that the file type is probably already installed and active, but since you removed the tw4win style that is used for identifying this type of file, the filter simply didn't recognize the file as bilingual, and therefore it was passed on to the Word filter for processing.

So now that you've made sure you have the right filter in Studio, open the converted file without any intermediate steps. Simply open it via the Translate Single Document option or add it to a project (but make sure the project has the correct file type active).

So, to borrow your steps:

1. Open the file in Trados Studio 2015 (translate single file, load related TM). If the correct file type has been used, you will see the below icon and the file type identifier in the Files View:

2. Translate the file. When you open the file for translation, it will be clean of all the Trados codes. That's one of the advantages of using Studio to work on bilingual DOC files:

Note that the 0% matches are populated with the source text. This is the default setting, but if you'd rather have clean segments for 0% matches like I actually do, there's a checkbox in the file type settings called "Clear 0% match segments" that you must check before adding the file to Studio. Click the little arrow next to the file type name to expand the settings.

Translate as usual.

3. Save target. Note that this will produce a bilingual DOC file, with all the Trados codes.

And that's it. So it's really just two steps: prepare the file in SDL LegIt, and open the file for translation in Studio, making sure you have the correct filter installed and enabled.