Mark text not for translation | Interesting solution

Forum: XTM Cloud support
Topic: Mark text not for translation
Poster: QUOI
Post title: Interesting solution

A bit mad but I shall try. Thanks.
Translation will be regarded as changes and if you reject all changes, doesn't that mean your translation is also rejected?

[quote]Meta Arkadia wrote:

This may sound very strange, but it's based on the fact that the Track Changes feature of MS Office (and only MS Office, it seems) doesn't track changes if those changes were made outside the program. And it just works, as we say.

- Open the spreadsheet.
- Set Track Changes.
- Delete the cells you don't have to translate (Find red text, replace with nothingness)
- Save.
- Translate in your CAT tool
- Export.
- Open in Excel.
- Reject All Changes.

Especially the very last item on the list sounds very counterintuitive, but it's crucial.

Please try on a copy of the Excel file.

Cheers,

Hans

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[Edited at 2014-03-04 09:52 GMT]