Benefits of TransTools suite

You can use it to find text that was missed during translation:

1. Overlooked text;
2. Segments accidentally skipped during translation in CAT software;
3. Text in headers / footers (they may not always be visible to a translator or there may be more than one header/footer);
4. Text in comments, footnotes, textboxes which can be hidden in certain document view modes (e.g. Normal view).

This command can be used in the following cases:

1. There was an error cleaning the document and you would like to quickly find the offending segment.
2. Sometimes hidden text may appear in cleaned documents because it was copied from other segments. Most of the time, such text will not appear in print copies or will not be seen by your client. The command identifies such text and allows you to make it visible.

1. Use it to clean up translation of small documents, emails, etc (without saving to the Translation Memory);
2. Clean a document that cannot be cleaned using traditional means (e.g. an error occurs during clean-up)

For those who use Wordfast or SDL Trados directly in Microsoft Word, this command allows a lot of flexibility:

1. Restore source text easily. If you lost the original document or translated over the original text, you can easily restore the original.
2. Swap source and target. If you have a habit of keeping segmented BAK files after clean-up, you can now create a file which you can clean up into a reverse Translation Memory in order to translate text in a different language direction.
3. Advanced Clean-up makes it possible to create bilingual documents from segmented text.

Pre-format documents prior to translating with CAT tools:

1. fix excessive spaces used instead of tabulation, line or paragraph breaks, etc.
   For example, one can use a lot of spaces to wrap text to a new line inside a cell, or to align text to a particular 'tab stop'.
   By replacing these with a single line break or tab character, you will be able to create a well formatted document which will not have to be formatted after clean-up.
2. allow segmentation in text copied from emails or the Internet by replacing 'non breaking space + regular space' with a single space between sentences.
   For example, the following text cannot be segmented, although these are 2 sentences:
   "This is a pen.<non-breaking-space/><space>The pen is red."

1. Return to the exact location where you left off;
2. Jump between two locations within a document for reference purposes.

1. Estimate the amount of translation of graphics and embedded objects;
2. Extract graphics into a separate document to be sent to a translator.

You can use it to find text that was accidentally skipped during translation because of the following:

1. Oversight;
2. Text hidden from view due to cell formatting;
3. Formulas that produce untranslated text.

For those who translate Excel spreadsheets manually (i.e. do not use CAT software), this method provides the following benefits:

1. Translate unique cell text and text shape only once;
2. Better quality control since one can see the original text alongside the translated text;

If you use CAT software, you can still use these commands in a number of scenarios:

1. You are dealing with large or complex Excel spreadsheets and it takes a lot of time to open them or generate a target document. By contrast, Collect & Replace commands are very fast.
2. There are many repetitions in your Excel spreadsheets. Translating such spreadsheets in some CAT software can be a pain because you would need to confirm each segment;
3. There are many text segments which have to be skipped (e.g. equipment numbers, etc). You can easily delete them from the replacement list if you use Collect & Replace commands.
4. A spreadsheet fails to open in your CAT software. You can still use your CAT software to translate the replacement list, so these commands will come to your rescue.

This command has a number of benefits:

• If you use CAT software, you will ensure proper segmentation and cleanliness of your Translation Memory;
• By reformatting the spreadsheet with this command, you will make sure that column resizing, font size changes, etc will not affect the look and feel of your translated document.

These commands provide the following benefits:

1. You can use CAT software to translate Visio drawings, since most CAT software does not open such files;
2. If a Visio drawing contains repetitions, you will cut down the translation time;
3. If you don't use CAT software, you can maintain a single replacement list as a sort of Translation Memory;
4. Better quality control since you can consult the original text.

These commands provide the following benefits:

1. You can use CAT software to translate AutoCAD drawings, since most CAT software does not open such files;
2. If an AutoCAD drawing contains repetitions, you will cut down the translation time;
3. If you don't use CAT software, you can maintain a single replacement list as a sort of Translation Memory;
4. Better quality control since you can consult the original text.