Apply a "Do Not Translate" style to a Word document without changing the primary style

Dear community members,

The MS Word file types offer the possibility to define styles which should not be translated. I have added in the list a style called "DoNotTranslate". If this is style is applied to some  text in a document, this portion is indeed not displayed in the Editor and not taken into account for the Word count (at least in SDL WorldServer).

My question is the following. Let's say I have a document with the following structure:

Heading1
Paragraph1
Bulleted list1
Paragraph2
Heading2
Paragraph3
Paragraph4

Where Heading, Paragraph and Bulleted list have their own style applying a specific formatting.
My "DoNotTranslate" style applies the same formatting as the Paragraph style.

Now, I only want to translate:
Heading2
Paragraph3
Paragraph4

So I apply the style "DoNoTranslate" to the following sections:
Heading1
Paragraph1
Bulleted list1
Paragraph2

Which will automatically exclude them from the translation and Word account.

But applying the "DoNotTranslate" style has changed the formatting of my heading and my bulleted list and applied the formatting of the "DoNotTranslate".

My question is now: is it possible to apply a style a portion of a Word document without changing the underlying formatting? How should the style be configured?
Was anyone ever confronted to this situation?

Thanks in advance for your advices and replies.

Regards,

Laurent

Parents Reply
  • I like both examples, Paul. With the first one, I prefer modifying our source documents over making changes to the project settings, but maybe I should rethink that. With the second suggestion, I'm always uneasy with marking text as hidden, because we have to ensure that it becomes unhidden before delivering to client. My go-to process is to change all non-translatable text to DO NOT TRANSLATE style, but it is sometimes cumbersome, like Laurent describes.
    Laurent, have you tried to Modify the Style "Heading 1" by renaming it to "DO NOT TRANSLATE + Heading 1"? I'm not able to test this right now. I've noticed that once I apply "DO NOT TRANSLATE" to my document and then add bold, I get "DO NOT TRANSLATE + bold" and Studio respects this as non-translatable. That said, I'm not sure if Studio just reads the style name and will accept anything that starts with "DO NOT TRANSLATE + ...." as non-translatable or whether it goes by which style it is based on.
Children
No Data