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Suggestion - Flexible multilingual Excel files

Leon Pieters

August 12, 2013 13:07

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Hi,

While it is very useful to be able to setup multilingual Excel files, what would be even better is if Wordbee can do this flexibly.

Like, set up a rule that:

Put English in Column A (or something other), and then the rest of the languages, each in its own column. Maybe also add an option to add a comments column after each language.

This way you don't have to create a separate configuration for each language combination.

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  Sales August 12, 2013 13:32

  Hi Leon,

  We actually do. :) Have you had a look at this video? 

  http://www.wordbee.com/resources/video-tutorials/multilingual-excel-files/

  These types of configuration are easy to set up in "Settings" > "Document formats" > "MS Excel"

   

   

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  Leon Pieters August 12, 2013 14:06

  This configuration I already know.

  What I'm talking about is a development of this capability. So that Wordbee automatically creates a multilingual file, according to the project - without me defining the template beforehand.

  For example, if I have a two projects:

  1. source is French, and the targets are German and Spanish
  2. source is English and the targets are Italian, Portuguese and Arabic

  So, I only create one *flexible* configuration, where I tell:

  1. Put the source language in column A
  2. Put the target language in the columns next to A

  So, for the first project I'd get:

  A - French

  B - German

  B- Spanish

  And for the second one:

  A - English

  B - Italian

  C - Portuguese

  D - Arabic

  And all this using one configuration.

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  Electronic Arts February 17, 2017 16:01

  Hi,

  Adding something else to Leon's suggestion... The Document Format Configuration would ask... 

  • for the Column to read the Source Text
  • the starting Column to write the Target Languages text
  • (if defined) row to place the language code for source and target languages defined above.

  This is much elegant than reserving a specific column for each language, where Client should have the source text in Column J and Target Languages in Columns F, Z and AC, meanwhile comments could be in Column B.

   

  Regards,

  Antonio