Forum: CAT Tools Technical Help
Topic: Alternative CAT tools that work directly with Office files
Poster: Philippe Locquet
Post title: Heartsome ?
[quote]AaronArthur wrote:
Hi Philippe, thanks for the suggestions. I'll definitely check them out. Unfortunately I don't have any non-sensitive examples, but after some experimenting I found out that Excel can open the FTMs and create an XML file automatically, so I was able to extract the text. I now just have to figure out how to automate stripping the formatting tags and I can then create SDLTMs for Trados. So all is not lost! [/quote]
Hi Aaron,
If you can open with Excel, you'll be able to solve this quite easily. Just make sure you end up with a two-columns file with source and target language code on top of columns. Then you can use that file for conversion in Heartsome TMX editor and strip tags.
Topic: Alternative CAT tools that work directly with Office files
Poster: Philippe Locquet
Post title: Heartsome ?
[quote]AaronArthur wrote:
Hi Philippe, thanks for the suggestions. I'll definitely check them out. Unfortunately I don't have any non-sensitive examples, but after some experimenting I found out that Excel can open the FTMs and create an XML file automatically, so I was able to extract the text. I now just have to figure out how to automate stripping the formatting tags and I can then create SDLTMs for Trados. So all is not lost! [/quote]
Hi Aaron,
If you can open with Excel, you'll be able to solve this quite easily. Just make sure you end up with a two-columns file with source and target language code on top of columns. Then you can use that file for conversion in Heartsome TMX editor and strip tags.