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WFP MAC segmentation question (line breaks in Excel)
Автор темы: Jan Truper
Jan Truper
Jan Truper  Identity Verified
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Local time: 12:05
английский => немецкий
Jan 17, 2012

Setup: WFP (2.4.4 / Build id: 20111209-0930) on a Mac (10.7.2)

I'm dealing with an .xlxs file; some cells contain terms divided by line breaks.
When opening the file in WFP, I'd like each of these terms to appear in an individual segment (currently they are lumped together in one segment with a bunch of tags between them).

(How) can this be accomplished?
 
Lori Cirefice
Lori Cirefice  Identity Verified
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Local time: 12:05
французский => английский
find and replace Jan 17, 2012

I think the best way to achieve what you want is to remove those line breaks from the xlsx file before importing to WFP.

Use excel FR to find ALT + 010 (with the cursor in the "find" field, hold down the 'Alt' button and type the numbers '010'. The field will remain blank, it looks like nothing happened, but in fact, it's there – just blank).

Replace with something like "space" + ":" which should make wordfast recognize those : as the end of a segment.

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I think the best way to achieve what you want is to remove those line breaks from the xlsx file before importing to WFP.

Use excel FR to find ALT + 010 (with the cursor in the "find" field, hold down the 'Alt' button and type the numbers '010'. The field will remain blank, it looks like nothing happened, but in fact, it's there – just blank).

Replace with something like "space" + ":" which should make wordfast recognize those : as the end of a segment.

After translation, you will need to perform the opposite operation to get the cells back the way they should be with, without ":"

Do a short test on a few lines to see if it works for you before doing the operation on a *copy* of your original file. ▲ Collapse
 
Heinrich Pesch
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Local time: 13:05
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финский => немецкий
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I had this problem earlier Jan 17, 2012

But more recently WFP does separate these cases like it should. I don't know why. Perhaps you should re-install in order to get the initial settings back.
 


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