Wordfast manual eng
Online Help for Project Managers and Translators
Copyright © Wordfast, LLC 2009. All rights reserved.
Contents
About Wordfast help 7
Purpose 7
Audience 7
Organization 7
Conventions 7
Abbreviations and Acronyms 8
About Wordfast 9
Overview 9
Key advantages 9
Project Manager plug-in workflow 9
TXML editor workflow 10
Getting started with Wordfast 11
Opening Wordfast 11
Wordfast homepage 11
PM perspective 12
TXML editor perspective 13
Installing and activating Wordfast 15
Using PM plug-in 17
Receiving files and conversion rules 17
Setting up formats 17
Viewing default file formats 17 Adding new file formats 19 Adding an Excel file format 21
Analyzing files 29
Selecting Analysis output option 30 Analyzing files 31
Extracting frequents 35
Cleaning up and updating translation memory 38
TXML editor menu options 43
File 43
Edit 44
Translation Memory 45
Terminology 46
Window 47
Help 47
Managing projects 49
Creating or opening a project 49
Creating a project 49 Opening a project 52
Creating or opening a TM 53
Selecting translation memory settings 54 Creating a local TM 55 Opening a local TM 58
Importing and exporting terminology lists 61
Importing a terminology list 61 Exporting a terminology list 64
Defining penalties 65
Defining color codes 67
Enabling spell check 69
Translating in a project 70
Opening a file 71 Translating a file 73 Leveraging repetitive content 75 Working with Translation Memory 77 Working with terminology 81 Working with placeables 85 Using Transcheck 86 Confirming or Unconfirming segments 89 Using Outline window 90 Viewing TXML Context 91 Saving a file 91 Closing a file 92 Using shortcut icons 92
Deleting a project 94
Working with advanced options 97