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BigBen - 13 Apr 2005 16:13 GMT

Hi All,

I make a living as a translator, and my usual working procedure is to
open a document in my source language - say, English - format the
whole document as my target language - Portuguese - and start
replacing the English text with my Portuguese translation.

I have no problem at all doing this in fairly small documents, but
when I'm working in a larg document, Word gets to a point where it
tells me there are too many spelling errors to be signaled during my
editing, and stops red underlining the misspelled words ...

Is there any work around this??

I have Office 2003, Windows XP, and I assume enough RAM (1GB).

Regards,
Big Ben.

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Howard Kaikow - 13 Apr 2005 22:07 GMT

Disable the underlining and only run the spell check when you need to do so.

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> Hi All,
>
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> Regards,
> Big Ben.

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BigBen - 14 Apr 2005 20:53 GMT

>Disable the underlining and only run the spell check when you need to do so.

That is what Word is forcing me to do, although it promises to
spellchek as you type, and I'm not at all happy about it - kind of
cheated, instead.

When I get to the botton of a large document, I very much like knowing
that the spellchcking is done, and I can then concentrate on other
matters.

Regards,
Big Ben.

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Cindy M -WordMVP- - 19 Apr 2005 04:25 GMT

Hi BigBen,

> That is what Word is forcing me to do, although it promises to
> spellchek as you type, and I'm not at all happy about it - kind of
> cheated, instead.

Well, the way you're going about working with the document is
"misusing" how spell-check is designed to work...

Perhaps the better approach would be to only change the language
format a section at a time. Then you wouldn't overload the
processing, and could still work reasonably efficiently.

<<I make a living as a translator, and my usual working procedure is
to
open a document in my source language - say, English - format the
whole document as my target language - Portuguese - and start
replacing the English text with my Portuguese translation.

I have no problem at all doing this in fairly small documents, but
when I'm working in a larg document, Word gets to a point where it
tells me there are too many spelling errors to be signaled during my
editing, and stops red underlining the misspelled words ... >>

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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Opinicus - 19 Apr 2005 07:50 GMT

> I make a living as a translator, and my usual working
> procedure is to
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> start
> replacing the English text with my Portuguese translation.

I'm a professional translator too (Turkish > English) and
what I do is to set up a two-column table. I put the Turkish
text in the left column (properly marked as Turkish) and
type my translation in the right column. I find replacing
the source text is a bad idea. Without the source text for
comparison, how can you proof for meaning and be sure you
haven't left something out?

I agree with what others have said about turning off "Check
spelling as you type".

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Kanyak's Doghouse
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BigBen - 21 Apr 2005 21:08 GMT

> I find replacing
>the source text is a bad idea. Without the source text for
>comparison, how can you proof for meaning and be sure you
>haven't left something out?

if I'm using Trados, as I am most of the time, I always have the
original text there.
I've tried hiding hiden text, so that the original text, formated by
Trados, does not show, but this doesn't help much, unfourtunatelly.

Regards,
JBR

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