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Apostrophes appear in different font and size font in Word document generated by Trados 2015.

Paul Rooke

When I convert my English to French Canada translations back to Word, the apostrophes appear with a space and in New Times Roman 14 pt, even though everything else is in Arial 10 pt. What is causing this problem? Thanks
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    Were there any tags in the file?
    Which Word file type did you use? Using the new WordprocessingML (Word 2007-2016) file type is preferred.

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  • 0 in reply to Jerzy Czopik
    Hi, I use Word 2007. No tags in the file.
  • 0 in reply to Paul Rooke
    Please recreate the project, using the file type for Word 2007-2016, NOT Word 2007-2013.
    I have had seen some apostroph problems recently with the latter one.

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  • 0 in reply to Jerzy Czopik
    Just noticed that the last document I was translating that was causing the problem was in Word 2003. To export it from Trados, I can only save it as a Document Microsoft Word 2000-2003.
    I did a test by converting the original Word 2003 document to Word 2007 before importing it in Trados. When I exported it in Word 2007, the apostrophes are ok.
    The problem only seems to appears with Word 2003 documents.
  • 0 in reply to Paul Rooke
    Good you could solve it.
    But I think you misunderstood my previous messages.
    I do not refer to saving format, but to the file type, which is the definition BEFORE the file is being imported into Studio.
    Please refer to kb.sdl.com/.../ - maybe that clarifies a bit.
    In a nutshell: BEFORE you add a file to the project, go to File Types and deselect the Word 2007-2013, leaving only Word 2007-2016 selected.

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  • 0 in reply to Jerzy Czopik
    I selected Word 2007-2016 only in File Types as you suggested, and deselected all other versions of Word.
    When I export the translation back to Word 2003, the apostrophes appear in Arial 14 pt, while everything else is in Arial 10 pt.
  • 0 in reply to Paul Rooke
    Thanks :)
    I am not aware of such problem in doc files, but maybe some from SDL will be able to look at this.

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  • 0 in reply to Paul Rooke
    Hi Paul,

    Forgive me for trying something simple first. If you press Ctrl+Shift+H in the Studio editor so you see any formatting tags around the apostrophes? Maybe you just need to apply some formatting if it's important to have them in a different font. I must admit it sounds like a PDF conversion issue that makes them different in the first place and this may be unnecessary work on your part to apply formatting to them all separately.

    Regards

    Paul

    Paul Filkin | RWS Group

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  • 0 in reply to Paul
    Hi Paul,
    There are no formating tags appearing around the apostrophes in my Trados 2015.
    I want everything in the same font, and not have the apostrophes in Arial 14 pt and everything else in Arial 10 pt..
    It's a Word 2003 document, and not a pdf conversion.
  • 0 in reply to Paul Rooke
    Hi Paul,

    ok - would you be able to share the source DOC and also your translated sdlxliff? If so you can email them to pfilkin@sdl.com

    Regards

    Paul

    Paul Filkin | RWS Group

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