Technical tips, articles and workflows for translators

When you copy words and phrases inside the same Word document or from other applications, most often the text is pasted with its formatting. This formatting may be different from the formatting of the surrounding text, so the pasted text will contrast with the text around it. To avoid this, you need to paste text without formatting. Here is how to do this...

If you need to run complex find and replace operations using Word's Find & Replace dialogue, you need to clear the parameters before the next operation. Here is how to do this...

Sometimes, especially in Word documents that were produced by converting PDFs, rows do not expand to fit the text as it expands during translation, or, if the text shrinks after translation, they remain too tall for the text...