Forum: CAT Tools Technical Help
Topic: MemSource vs. MemoQ
Poster: Javier Fain
Post title: Turnaround for Excel concern
Stepan,
I've read your case thoroughly and I think I help you (though I have some questions as well). First of all, let's agree that your problem is beyond CAT Tools: there is not way to tell Memsource, MemoQ, Trados or whatever "OK. I want these columns from these tabs all translatable, but please do not touch the others...". There is neither a logic nor a pattern that can think of.
Given that said, there are a couple of alternatives you can regard. You said that you only need two columns for each tab, the English source and Russian, as a target. I'm not sure whether there is some already translated content in that Russian column, or if all the text in that column must be deleted completed, or there are empty cells which you would need to focus on, etc. Let's assume they are empty. This would be my approach:
1) Select all the columns of each tab except the ones you need (English and Russian).
2) Right-click on those and hit "Hide".
3) Select the rows where there are Russian translations and hide them. In doing so, there would only be empty cells in the Russian columns.
4) Copy the content of the English column into the Russian one.
5) Hide the English column.
6) Repet all the steps for each tab.
7) Process the pre-processed Excel file in Memsource (or your preferred CAT tool) and translate as usual. You will only see the segmented text which wasn't hidden.
8) Cleanup the file and unhide all the colums of each tab you have hidden at the beginning of the process.
You will see that your translation will be placed in the relevant columns and the rest of the document will remain unmodified. I know it can be a little tedious if you have fourty tabs, you would end up in hidding lots of columns. However, it might not take you more than 5-7 minutes.
Depending on how frequently you receive this kind of documents, you can contemplate other options, like a script which would extract the columns you would indicate (by their column name), but that's another story for now... :).
Hope this is useful. Let me know if it works.
[Edited at 2016-09-29 03:53 GMT]
[Edited at 2016-09-29 11:22 GMT]
Topic: MemSource vs. MemoQ
Poster: Javier Fain
Post title: Turnaround for Excel concern
Stepan,
I've read your case thoroughly and I think I help you (though I have some questions as well). First of all, let's agree that your problem is beyond CAT Tools: there is not way to tell Memsource, MemoQ, Trados or whatever "OK. I want these columns from these tabs all translatable, but please do not touch the others...". There is neither a logic nor a pattern that can think of.
Given that said, there are a couple of alternatives you can regard. You said that you only need two columns for each tab, the English source and Russian, as a target. I'm not sure whether there is some already translated content in that Russian column, or if all the text in that column must be deleted completed, or there are empty cells which you would need to focus on, etc. Let's assume they are empty. This would be my approach:
1) Select all the columns of each tab except the ones you need (English and Russian).
2) Right-click on those and hit "Hide".
3) Select the rows where there are Russian translations and hide them. In doing so, there would only be empty cells in the Russian columns.
4) Copy the content of the English column into the Russian one.
5) Hide the English column.
6) Repet all the steps for each tab.
7) Process the pre-processed Excel file in Memsource (or your preferred CAT tool) and translate as usual. You will only see the segmented text which wasn't hidden.
8) Cleanup the file and unhide all the colums of each tab you have hidden at the beginning of the process.
You will see that your translation will be placed in the relevant columns and the rest of the document will remain unmodified. I know it can be a little tedious if you have fourty tabs, you would end up in hidding lots of columns. However, it might not take you more than 5-7 minutes.
Depending on how frequently you receive this kind of documents, you can contemplate other options, like a script which would extract the columns you would indicate (by their column name), but that's another story for now... :).
Hope this is useful. Let me know if it works.
[Edited at 2016-09-29 03:53 GMT]
[Edited at 2016-09-29 11:22 GMT]