What is the best way to revert an edited term to the original version without track changes?

Dear Studio 2015 experts,

I made a change to a high frequency term in a project during the editing stage.  Now after discussing the term with the translator, we have decided to change it back to the original version.

Is there a way to quickly do this without manually rejecting the edited version of the term for each occurrence?  Tookkit and Batch find and replace apps seem to be able to do the job (haven't tested it), but I wonder if they work with files with track changes.  Besides, I am hoping that the reversion would also wipe out the track change marks and leave the reverted term look nice and clean.

Do you have any suggestions?  Thanks a lot for saving me from tedious manual work!

Chunyi 

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  • Hi Chunyi,

    That's a usecase I haven't seen before and the only way I could find to tackle this is as follows... note that I am basing this on you wanting to keep other tracked changes in the file so it's only these specific ones you want to change.

    1. I have a test file reviewed like this:


    2. Now, I want to remove only the tracked changes on "exam" and revert back to "test" with no track changes showing for "test".  So first I export for External Review (one of your favourites ;-))  I have this:



    3. Next I turn off Track Changes in Word and search and replace "testexam" with "test", so now it looks like this:


    4. Now I save the review file and Update from External Review.. looks like this:

    Seems to have done the trick.  So maybe you can try something like this?  I'd back up all your files before you mess around with this but it seems to work in principle.

    I tried this in Studio first to see whether it would work there without the export/import but clearly the track changes tags get in the way in this environment.

    Regards

    Paul

    Paul Filkin | RWS Group

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  • Hi Chunyi,

    That's a usecase I haven't seen before and the only way I could find to tackle this is as follows... note that I am basing this on you wanting to keep other tracked changes in the file so it's only these specific ones you want to change.

    1. I have a test file reviewed like this:


    2. Now, I want to remove only the tracked changes on "exam" and revert back to "test" with no track changes showing for "test".  So first I export for External Review (one of your favourites ;-))  I have this:



    3. Next I turn off Track Changes in Word and search and replace "testexam" with "test", so now it looks like this:


    4. Now I save the review file and Update from External Review.. looks like this:

    Seems to have done the trick.  So maybe you can try something like this?  I'd back up all your files before you mess around with this but it seems to work in principle.

    I tried this in Studio first to see whether it would work there without the export/import but clearly the track changes tags get in the way in this environment.

    Regards

    Paul

    Paul Filkin | RWS Group

    ________________________
    Design your own training!

    You've done the courses and still need to go a little further, or still not clear? 
    Tell us what you need in our Community Solutions Hub

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