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Wordfast support Wordfast Pro and TWS - compatible? I ask because a couple of large jobs have recently
come up, both requiring TWS. I have used TWS
before and hated it - it caused me all sorts of
problems and I refused to take on any more j
Gerry Vickers May 29, 2018
Wordfast support Number formatting in WF pro . I downloaded the latest version of WF last night
in the hope that this might have an
effect. 'Have you turned ON Number Extraction
from Preferences > Filters? Once you turn this ON
Gerry Vickers Jul 21, 2014
Wordfast support Number formatting in WF pro same problem It has come up again - I can't be the only user
that has experienced this, or maybe I am the only
user that doesn't know how to resolve the issue
... The word file is fine, nothing hid
Gerry Vickers Jul 20, 2014
Wordfast support Number formatting in WF pro Thank you, but I need to explain differently Thank you for your suggestions, however the
problem is not with word - I can handle that bit.
The problem is with wordfast as all the numbers
in the tables are hidden somewhere in the
Gerry Vickers May 16, 2013
Wordfast support Number formatting in WF pro I have a file which contains several graphs and
tables. All of the numbers use a comma as a
decimal separator. When I export the file to
Word, the commas are all still in place but I want
Gerry Vickers May 15, 2013
Wordfast support Sending a Translation Memory to a Trados client Returning to this problem After months of success using the above procedure,
I am having problems with my current job.
There are 1374 lines, yet when I try to export
a tmx file there are only about 320. I have
Gerry Vickers Jan 31, 2013
Wordfast support URGENT! could not create the java virtual machine Memory Hi Alex As you can probably tell, my IT expertise
is not that in-depth so if any memory settings
were changed this would have happened
spontaneously. I am frequently getting messages
Gerry Vickers Jan 6, 2013
Wordfast support URGENT! could not create the java virtual machine Thanks - I think I have sorted it I uninstalled WF and re-uploaded it and it seems
to work now. 'you can always use Wordfast
Anywhere to translate your TXML's' I tried that
too, but I couldn't get my head around it - i
Gerry Vickers Jan 4, 2013
Wordfast support URGENT! could not create the java virtual machine I keep getting this message when I try to open WF
- it was working fine yesterday. I have
re-installed Java, but it still doesn't
work. Please help as I have a few urgent jobs to
do!
Gerry Vickers Jan 4, 2013
Wordfast support Cleanup - what is it for? . ... I was giving it another go last night, but
annoyingly I ran out of demo credits. I see
where the cleanup function comes into play with
this version, whereas I still don't understan
Gerry Vickers Nov 2, 2012
Wordfast support Cleanup - what is it for? Better the devil you know ... Well I have been trying to get my head around
Classic for a while today, and it is ringing some
distant bells, but I am 99% certain that I wasn't
using it 'correctly' before. As I have qui
Gerry Vickers Nov 2, 2012
Wordfast support Cleanup - what is it for? . You're right. I was using a different version
beforehand - that must have been Classic, and the
demo version at that, and sparingly. I seem to
remember that it was quite good. I'll cont
Gerry Vickers Nov 1, 2012
Wordfast support Cleanup - what is it for? Classic Do you know if it is possible to transfer a
licence for Pro to Classic? If so, I might give it
a try.
Gerry Vickers Nov 1, 2012
Wordfast support Cleanup - what is it for? Thank you You’re confused – not as much as I am :) By
'at a basic level', I mean that my knowledge of
what it can do is basic - but I don't need to tell
you that. Whatever I have been usin
Gerry Vickers Nov 1, 2012
Wordfast support Cleanup - what is it for? I have used WF for about 7 years at a basic level
- it does what I need it to do and it has served
me well. Cleanup is a function that somebody
pointed out to me recently, however, I can't
Gerry Vickers Nov 1, 2012
Wordfast support TXML to bilingual ("uncleaned") DOC with Wordfast Pro 3.0 & PlusToyz Yahoo groups So I thought I would give it a shot as I have a
client who wants this. It was all going
swimmingly following the youtube video until it
got to the bit about the 'free utility available<
Gerry Vickers May 22, 2012
Wordfast support Transcheck I'm suitably confused now so I'll go and look at the link you posted,
Yasmin. However I somehow suspect that this is not
one that I will make much use of ... Thank you
as always!
Gerry Vickers Apr 13, 2012
Wordfast support Transcheck That might be an idea Thanks! Gerry Vickers Apr 13, 2012
Wordfast support Transcheck Yes - Wordfast 'Pro', although as I do more research it
seems that 'Classic' might have more
functionality, at least for my purposes, and I
chose the wrong version.
Gerry Vickers Apr 12, 2012
Wordfast support Transcheck Thank you for replying, Silvia. As I thought, it is probably
more for long technical files containing lots of
numbers - I try to avoid those as a
rule. However, it might be useful to have a
s
Gerry Vickers Apr 12, 2012
Wordfast support Transcheck In the past I have tried to understand what the
transcheck function is actually for and how to use
it, as it surely serves a useful function, but I
haven't been able to work it out. Are th
Gerry Vickers Apr 12, 2012
Wordfast support Spaces in Wordfast pro I thought it might be something like that Thanks. I tried the transcheck that you
mention, however all it seems to do is to tell me
where they are which doesn't actually help :)
Gerry Vickers Apr 12, 2012
Wordfast support Spaces in Wordfast pro OK - another thing that is probably really easy to
solve! How do I stop spaces being generated in
the target where they are not needed after the
{ut1} (whatever they are called) or afte
Gerry Vickers Apr 12, 2012
Wordfast support Sending a Translation Memory to a Trados client . Perfect! I knew it would be something easy. I'm
afraid I will have a few more seemingly obvious
and simple queries - I am just getting around to
addressing them after these years! You h
Gerry Vickers Apr 10, 2012
Wordfast support Sending a Translation Memory to a Trados client With reference to
http://www.wordfast.net/wiki/Exchanging_TMs_with_N
on-Wordfast_Users I am having problems with
this bit: 'Make sure that all your translated
segments are committed
Gerry Vickers Apr 10, 2012
Wordfast support TXML to bilingual ("uncleaned") DOC with Wordfast Pro 3.0 & PlusToyz It lost me Why can't they just incorporate a button that does
all this - or am I just being naive? It would
be great if there could be something that is built
into Word that could just do all this
Gerry Vickers Apr 10, 2012
Money matters Geoworkz Just cancelled I have recently been contacted by Lionbridge with
quite an interesting job which seemingly involved
quite a large amount of work. However, now it is
all starting to come through the enormo
Gerry Vickers Oct 25, 2011
KudoZ Am I right to be angry if an asker selects an answer without considering peer comments? Their problem, not yours 'and would never dare to translate INTO
Czech.' Yet you dare to translate INTO English
? :) I also lived and studied in Brno (my
favourite place in the world) for many years, and<
Gerry Vickers Jun 10, 2011
Wordfast support WFP does not connect to TM TM Lookup I don't know if my query is related, but it would
be really great feature in Wordfast if when I
click on 'TM lookup' and it finds the matching
entry in the TM, I could copy and paste that<
Gerry Vickers Apr 24, 2011
Wordfast support how to create a Wordfast Pro unclean file Unclean files I use Wordfast Pro, but I probably only use about
5% of its functions having read through some of
the forums. I don't use Microsoft Word, so
apparently Wordfast Classic is not an option a
Gerry Vickers Dec 2, 2009
Trados support What means a "cleaned" and "uncleaned" file? Similar problem I use Wordfast, but I probably only use about 5%
of its functions :) I don't use Microsoft
Word. On querying a request to send an
'unclean' file, I got the response 'It is an
unclea
Gerry Vickers Dec 2, 2009
Poll Discussion Poll: How do you prefer your clients to contact you? E-mail I have a mobile telephone, but it is certainly not
used for its primary purpose! I must make or
receive about 3 minutes of calls per week (if
that), and maybe 1 SMS per month - e-mail is t
Gerry Vickers Oct 8, 2009
Czech Britske sazby That is too low i know, I'm joining in at a late stage, but I have
just discovered this forum. You have to
remember that there are very few native speakers
of English out there working with this langua
Gerry Vickers Sep 11, 2008
Lighter side of trans/interp Why do labels often have such hilariously bad translations? Czech/Slovak howlers The Czech and Slovak Republics are possibly two of
the worst offenders in this respect in my
experience. The 'English' sections of city
websites (even the larger cities, who should know
Gerry Vickers Jul 31, 2007


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