TransTools

Set of translation productivity plug-ins for Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, AutoCAD and BricsCAD

TransTools includes 50+ tools for Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, AutoCAD and BricsCAD to increase your productivity during translation and editing.


TransTools features

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Partial (selective) translation

Document formatting, preparation before/after translation

Quality assurance (QA)

Dual-language translation

Batch tools

Wordfast Classic / Trados 2007

Useful tools for editing text

Miscellaneous tools

Document formatting, preparation before/after translation

Quality assurance (QA)

Glossaries

File translation in any CAT tool

Document formatting, preparation before/after translation

Quality assurance (QA)

File translation in any CAT tool

 

File translation in any CAT tool

 

File translation in any CAT tool

 

Useful tools for editing text

Auxiliary tools


Microsoft Word Tools for Word

Partial (selective) translation

Hide / Unhide Text tool icon Hide / Unhide Text
  • Hide colored text from your CAT tool.
  • Hide all text except text marked in a specific font color or highlight color.
  • Unhide all text after translation in a CAT tool.
Hide / Unhide Text tool screenshot

Also see Dual-Language Document Assistant.

Document formatting, preparation before/after translation

Document Cleaner icon Document Cleaner
  • Remove excessive tags from Word documents.
  • Fix various formatting issues after PDF conversion or OCR, esp. prior to translation in a CAT tool.
Document Cleaner screenshot
Unbreaker icon Unbreaker

Find and remove incorrect paragraph and line breaks to prevent segmentation issues in CAT tools.

Unbreaker screenshot
Find & Replace Excessive Spaces tool icon Find & Replace Excessive Spaces

Find and replace excessive spaces to improve TM leverage and improve formatting.

Find & Replace Excessive Spaces screenshot
Collect All Graphics From Active Document tool icon Collect all graphics from active document

Extract graphical objects from the current document into a new document.

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Set Variable Row Height command icon Set variable row height

Ensure that table text is fully visible by clearing fixed row height setting.

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Quality assurance (QA)

Correctomatic icon Correctomatic
  • Create custom correction lists and use them to correct common translation errors, style guide inconsistencies, misspellings that are not detected by the spellchecker, etc.
  • Use predefined correction lists to convert a document from one language dialect to another one (e.g. British to American English), or create your own list for this.
Correctomatic screenshot
Quotation Magic icon Quotation Magic

Improve document formatting and punctuation by using typographically correct quotation marks, apostrophes and similar symbols.

Quotation Magic screenshot
Non-breaking Space Checker icon Non-breaking Space Checker

Improve document formatting by using non-breaking spaces where necessary.

Non-breaking Space Checker screenshot
Spellcheck Assistant icon Spellcheck Assistant

Quickly look through all spellchecking errors in the document, process spelling errors, change the spellchecking language, and recheck document with modified custom spellchecking dictionaries.

Spellcheck Assistant screenshot
Multiple Replace tool icon Multiple Replace

Save time during text replacement: replace several words or phrases simultaneously across a document or selection.

Multiple Replace tool screenshot
Language Check tool icon Language Check

Check whether text is fully translated from one language to another.

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Remove Highlight tool icon Remove Highlight

Clear color highlighting from text.

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Find Highlight tool icon Find Highlight

Navigate between text highlighted with certain highlight colors.

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Find Multiple Text tool icon Find Multiple Text

Find words and phrases defined in your search-replace list for manual correction.

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Dual-language translation

Dual-Language Document Assistant icon Dual-Language Document Assistant

Prepare source documents for translation in dual-language (source+target language) format.

Dual-Language Document Assistant screenshot

Also see Hide / Unhide Text tool.

Batch tools

Document Format Convertor icon Document Format Convertor

Convert several Word documents to another format (DOCX, DOC, RTF, PDF).

Document Format Convertor screenshot

Wordfast Classic / Trados 2007

Segmented Text Coloring Tool icon Segmented Text Coloring Tool

Colorize tag-delimited segmented text (used by Wordfast Classic and Trados 2007) for easier editing/proofreading.

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Check for clean document command icon Check for clean document

Check whether the document was completely cleaned by Trados 2007 or Wordfast Classic.

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Quick-clean the document

Clean a document quickly without using Translator's Workbench (Trados 2007) or Wordfast Classic add-in.

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Configure clean-up/restore rule

Configure Find/Replace dialogue for manual clean-up, restoring of source text, or swapping source and target text in WFC/Trados 2007 segmented documents.

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Apply & remove Marching Ants formatting command icon Apply & remove Marching Ants formatting

Apply or remove Marching Red Ants and Marching Black Ants formatting.

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Apply Trados 2007 / Wordfast Classic internal / external styles command icon Apply Trados 2007 / Wordfast Classic internal / external styles

Apply Trados 2007 / Wordfast Classic internal and external non-translatable styles to text.

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Internal copy/paste commands icon Internal text copy&paste commands

Copy and paste text inside the same Word document without using the clipboard.

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Useful tools for editing text

Insert Symbol / Quotes tool icon Insert Symbol / Quotes

Insert a predefined symbol or quotation marks.

Insert Symbol / Quotes tool screenshot
Paste unformatted text command icon Paste unformatted text

Paste text without formatting.

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What Is This Text Symbol tool icon What Is This Text Symbol?

Identify text symbols in the selected text.

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Bookmark commands icon Bookmark commands

Bookmark the current selection and quickly return to it.

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Copy all selected text command icon Copy all selected text (clipboard)

Copy selected text (including hidden text) to clipboard.

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To-Do tool icon To-Do

Keep important notes related to the current document.

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Miscellaneous tools

Localization tools icon Automatic Localization and Manual Localization tools

Localize numbers, adapting the decimal point and the thousand separator to the target language requirements.

Automatic Localization tool screenshot
Revisions accept command icon Accept all revisions and turn 'Track Changes' off

Accept all revisions in the document and deactivate Track Changes mode.

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Quick Workspaces tool icon Quick Workspaces

Save the visual (display) settings of Word under “profiles” and restore these profiles when needed.

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Reset Find/Replace dialogue box

Restore the default settings of Word's Find & Replace dialogue.

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Microsoft Excel Tools for Excel

Document formatting, preparation before/after translation

Cell Resize Wizard icon Cell Resize Wizard

Resize cells in order to make cell text fully visible.

Cell Resize Wizard screenshot
Merge Cell Contents tool icon Merge Cell Contents

Merge cells and their contents when sentences are split among several cells.

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Remove Excessive Spaces tool icon Remove Excessive Spaces

Replace excessive spaces used to wrap text to another line with line breaks.

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Find Excessive Spaces

Highlight cells that contain excessive spaces used instead of line breaks.

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Quality assurance (QA)

Language Check tool icon Language Check

Check whether text is fully translated from one language to another.

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Remove Highlight tool icon Remove Highlight

Clear fill color from cells.

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Glossaries

Glossary Search tool icon Glossary Search

Turn your Excel glossaries into powerful searchable dictionaries.

Glossary Search tool screenshot
Find Duplicates tool icon Find Duplicates

Remove duplicate entries from your glossary files.

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File translation in any CAT tool

Excel spreadsheet translation tools icon Excel spreadsheet translation tools

Extract translatable text for external translation, and translate the spreadsheet with the resulting translation table once it is translated.

Glossary Search tool screenshot
Microsoft PowerPoint Tools for PowerPoint

Document formatting, preparation before/after translation

Unbreaker icon Unbreaker for PowerPoint

Remove incorrect paragraph and line breaks from PowerPoint presentations.

Unbreaker for PowerPoint screenshot
Tag Cleaner icon Tag Cleaner for PowerPoint

Remove incorrect paragraph and line breaks from PowerPoint presentations.

Tag Cleaner for PowerPoint screenshot

Quality assurance (QA)

Change Language tool icon Change Language

Change spellchecking language for proper review of a PowerPoint presentation.

Change Language tool screenshot
Microsoft Visio Tools for Visio

File translation in any CAT tool

Visio drawing translation tools icon Visio drawing translation tools

Extract translatable text for external translation, and translate Visio drawings with the resulting translation table once it has been translated.

Visio drawing translation tools screenshot
Autodesk AutoCAD Tools for AutoCAD

File translation in any CAT tool

AutoCAD drawing translation tools icon AutoCAD drawing translation tools

Extract translatable text for external translation, and translate CAD drawing with the resulting translation table once it has been translated.

AutoCAD drawing translation tools screenshot
BricsCAD Tools for BricsCAD

File translation in any CAT tool

BricsCAD drawing translation tools icon BricsCAD drawing translation tools

Extract translatable text for external translation, and translate CAD drawing with the resulting translation table once it has been translated.

BricsCAD drawing translation tools screenshot
Standalone tools Standalone tools

Useful tools for editing text

TransTools Utilities icon TransTools Utilities

Useful commands that can be used in a multitude of Windows programs: paste unformatted text or insert symbols into any application, look up terms using Glossary Search tool from any program, etc.

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Extra tools included in TransTools package

TransTools Migration Utility TransTools Migration Utility

Copy the settings and configuration files of TransTools / TransTools+ between computers or user profiles.

TransTools Migration Utility window

  • What our users are saying
    TransTools has saved me a lot of time and headache dealing with poorly-made documents.

    “TransTools is an incredibly useful suite of tools that I'm glad exists. It has saved me so much time and headache dealing with poorly-made documents imported to memoQ, which is why I'm proud to have sponsored the development of one of its features. Thank you!”

    Érico Carvalho, English-Portuguese and Spanish-Portuguese translator, BNN Medical & Pharmaceutical Translations

  • What our users are saying
    As a CAT tool trainer and mentor, I regularly recommend TransTools.

    “I regularly recommend TransTools to individual translators in my role as a CAT tool trainer and mentor.”

    Jacqui Birnie, MITI, technical translator, memoQ trainer

  • What our users are saying
    TransTools paid for itself the very first time I used it.

    “I started off with TransTools and it paid for itself the very first time I used it. I can only imagine how many hours TransTools+ is going to save me.”

    SafeTex, Freelancer

  • What our users are saying
    Great Swiss knife of handy tools, worth every cent I paid for them.

    “TransTools is a great Swiss knife of handy tools, worth every cent I paid for them. Correctomatic and Document Cleaner save my ass when I make "my favorite" typos, and my time when I have to translate an OCRed document. TransTools for Visio lets me unleash the power of CAT tools and my TMs on Visio files, and TransTools for AutoCAD helps me translate more than a hundred of AutoCAD files per week.”

    Vatslav Yehurnov, freelance translator

  • What our users are saying
    I can’t imagine my everyday work without TransTools.

    “Almost 10 years ago I started using TransTools: first for AutoCAD and Visio to extract text from drawings, later for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint to format the source and the target files. Since then, I can’t imagine my everyday work without TransTools. It’s a real productivity booster!”

    Iryna Lebedyeva, ILTech Translations, Owner and Founder

  • What our users are saying
    TransTools saves enormous amounts of time and money, and is a must for every translator.

    “I've been extensively using TransTools since 2016. It is a great piece of software. First, TransTools for Office is a blessing that saves from the dreadful "tag soup". It saves enormous amounts of time and money, and is a must for every translator. Second, as a technical translator I really appreciate TransTools for AutoCAD. With it, translating dwg files cannot be easier! It extracts all the text into a CAT-compatible file, and then puts the resulting translation back into the drawing. My 2+ years experience with TransTools clearly shows that it is a stable, user-friendly, and very useful system for every translator. Thanks for such a wonderful productivity tool!”

    Dr. Dmitry Troitsky, Director, Technical Translation & Software Agency


TransTools benefits

Best solution for preparing documents converted with PDF converters and OCR applications before importing into your CAT tool

TransTools is an ultimate solution for preparing documents produced from PDFs or scans. It helps you clean tags, remove redundant breaks, fix various layout issues, prevent partially invisible text, and do a lot of other things.

Improve efficiency of translation using your CAT tool

TransTools complements your CAT tool with special tools for document formatting before and after translation, tools for double-checking text in final documents and improving document appearance, etc.

Do you have a problem translating a file in your CAT tool? TransTools can help you!

TransTools allows you to translate some formats that lack support in modern CAT tools (e.g. AutoCAD, Visio), can help translate localization formats, huge Excel files, etc.

Improve document appearance

TransTools helps you improve final document's appearance and readability: insert non-breaking spaces, fix quotation mark styles, remove redundant spaces, check visibilty issues.
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