Forum: CAT Tools Technical Help
Topic: the best and easiest CAT for the newbie
Poster: John Fossey
Post title: Wordfast Classic
If you are mainly working in Word documents, I would suggest Wordfast Classic to start with, for several reasons:
- it integrates directly inside MS Word
- since you are translating within the Word document there are no formatting tags like most other CAT tools, which can be confusing until you get used to them. Word takes care of formatting itself
- the free trial allows up to 500 segments in your translation memory, which is probably quite a few jobs. The free trial can be used to a point where the volume makes it worthwhile to purchase, but not necessary before that.
While I don't use Wordfast Classic myself any more, I used it for quite a few years when I first started translating professionally and recommend it for starting.
Even though I'm recommending it for a starting CAT tool it is nonetheless a powerful tool.
Topic: the best and easiest CAT for the newbie
Poster: John Fossey
Post title: Wordfast Classic
If you are mainly working in Word documents, I would suggest Wordfast Classic to start with, for several reasons:
- it integrates directly inside MS Word
- since you are translating within the Word document there are no formatting tags like most other CAT tools, which can be confusing until you get used to them. Word takes care of formatting itself
- the free trial allows up to 500 segments in your translation memory, which is probably quite a few jobs. The free trial can be used to a point where the volume makes it worthwhile to purchase, but not necessary before that.
While I don't use Wordfast Classic myself any more, I used it for quite a few years when I first started translating professionally and recommend it for starting.
Even though I'm recommending it for a starting CAT tool it is nonetheless a powerful tool.
