Forum: CAT Tools Technical Help
Topic: MemSource vs. MemoQ
Poster: Stepan Konev
Post title: Take it easy. We do not blame but compare...
Ok, let me describe my routine tasks I do day to day. I localize game scripts. Usually, it looks like this:
I have an Excel file with 3 to 23 tabs.
Each tab has 10 to 40 columns. Most of those columns are languages of the world. Some are roles, source/target character limits, and other attributes (does not matter). And one column is the source language, which is usually English.
From those 10 to 40 columns, I need to extract the source (English) language and the target (Russian) language columns so that once translated, I have my Russian translation in the relevant column in Excel.
The columns that are required for work may differ from tab to tab. Say I have column "C" for source language and column "AM" for target in tab 1. Then I have column "K" for source language and column "L" for target in tab 2. And so on.
Trados can do it only for one-tab excel files.
Having typed "memsource bilingual excel" in Google, I found this pretty old link to an awkward workaround: [url removed]
Maybe I am missing something about Memsource?
Could you please let me know how can I handle this in Memsource (extract different columns from multitab Excel files for translation purposes and then have them in their places)?
[Edited at 2016-09-28 06:19 GMT]
Topic: MemSource vs. MemoQ
Poster: Stepan Konev
Post title: Take it easy. We do not blame but compare...
Ok, let me describe my routine tasks I do day to day. I localize game scripts. Usually, it looks like this:
I have an Excel file with 3 to 23 tabs.
Each tab has 10 to 40 columns. Most of those columns are languages of the world. Some are roles, source/target character limits, and other attributes (does not matter). And one column is the source language, which is usually English.
From those 10 to 40 columns, I need to extract the source (English) language and the target (Russian) language columns so that once translated, I have my Russian translation in the relevant column in Excel.
The columns that are required for work may differ from tab to tab. Say I have column "C" for source language and column "AM" for target in tab 1. Then I have column "K" for source language and column "L" for target in tab 2. And so on.
Trados can do it only for one-tab excel files.
Having typed "memsource bilingual excel" in Google, I found this pretty old link to an awkward workaround: [url removed]
Maybe I am missing something about Memsource?
Could you please let me know how can I handle this in Memsource (extract different columns from multitab Excel files for translation purposes and then have them in their places)?
[Edited at 2016-09-28 06:19 GMT]