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Translate in Word 2003 from English to Spanish?
I have several documents and signs in English that I have created for
customers. The customers are now requesting that I make them documents & signs in both English & Spanish. Is there a way to select the text that I have, and translate it to Spanish? |
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RobinB wrote:
I have several documents and signs in English that I have created for customers. The customers are now requesting that I make them documents & signs in both English & Spanish. Is there a way to select the text that I have, and translate it to Spanish? Yes, you can do that... Select the text, hold the Alt key, and click on the selection. The Research task pane opens. The first time, you'll have to set the search type to "Translation" and set the from/to languages. For some reason, the results are below a very large blank space, so you have to scroll down to see them. This may work well enough for the short phrases on the average sign. Still, you'll want to have the results checked by someone who is familiar with the particular dialect(s) spoken by your customers. Words that are perfectly ordinary in, say, Castilian Spanish may have unsavory connotations in, say, Mexican or Cuban Spanish. The machine translation in Word won't tell you any of that. But if you have to have a person check the translations, why not just have that person write the translations in the first place? -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org |
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Jay,
Thank you for the info. The only problem I have is that the users that need to do the translation does not have internet access, therefore, they can not access the wordlingo site. I need to know if there is something internal in Office that will allow this to be done. "Jay Freedman" wrote: RobinB wrote: I have several documents and signs in English that I have created for customers. The customers are now requesting that I make them documents & signs in both English & Spanish. Is there a way to select the text that I have, and translate it to Spanish? Yes, you can do that... Select the text, hold the Alt key, and click on the selection. The Research task pane opens. The first time, you'll have to set the search type to "Translation" and set the from/to languages. For some reason, the results are below a very large blank space, so you have to scroll down to see them. This may work well enough for the short phrases on the average sign. Still, you'll want to have the results checked by someone who is familiar with the particular dialect(s) spoken by your customers. Words that are perfectly ordinary in, say, Castilian Spanish may have unsavory connotations in, say, Mexican or Cuban Spanish. The machine translation in Word won't tell you any of that. But if you have to have a person check the translations, why not just have that person write the translations in the first place? -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org |
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No, there isn't. The translation feature is provided by a web service only.
-- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Robinb wrote: Jay, Thank you for the info. The only problem I have is that the users that need to do the translation does not have internet access, therefore, they can not access the wordlingo site. I need to know if there is something internal in Office that will allow this to be done. "Jay Freedman" wrote: RobinB wrote: I have several documents and signs in English that I have created for customers. The customers are now requesting that I make them documents & signs in both English & Spanish. Is there a way to select the text that I have, and translate it to Spanish? Yes, you can do that... Select the text, hold the Alt key, and click on the selection. The Research task pane opens. The first time, you'll have to set the search type to "Translation" and set the from/to languages. For some reason, the results are below a very large blank space, so you have to scroll down to see them. This may work well enough for the short phrases on the average sign. Still, you'll want to have the results checked by someone who is familiar with the particular dialect(s) spoken by your customers. Words that are perfectly ordinary in, say, Castilian Spanish may have unsavory connotations in, say, Mexican or Cuban Spanish. The machine translation in Word won't tell you any of that. But if you have to have a person check the translations, why not just have that person write the translations in the first place? -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org |
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Actually, Jay, I think the French and Spanish translations are available
offline (but only for one word at a time). And note that you can select the "flavor" of Spanish you want. Not that I wouldn't still caution users about the use of any kind of machine translation, and especially of word-for-word translation, which would probably be worse than useless for most phrases. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... No, there isn't. The translation feature is provided by a web service only. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Robinb wrote: Jay, Thank you for the info. The only problem I have is that the users that need to do the translation does not have internet access, therefore, they can not access the wordlingo site. I need to know if there is something internal in Office that will allow this to be done. "Jay Freedman" wrote: RobinB wrote: I have several documents and signs in English that I have created for customers. The customers are now requesting that I make them documents & signs in both English & Spanish. Is there a way to select the text that I have, and translate it to Spanish? Yes, you can do that... Select the text, hold the Alt key, and click on the selection. The Research task pane opens. The first time, you'll have to set the search type to "Translation" and set the from/to languages. For some reason, the results are below a very large blank space, so you have to scroll down to see them. This may work well enough for the short phrases on the average sign. Still, you'll want to have the results checked by someone who is familiar with the particular dialect(s) spoken by your customers. Words that are perfectly ordinary in, say, Castilian Spanish may have unsavory connotations in, say, Mexican or Cuban Spanish. The machine translation in Word won't tell you any of that. But if you have to have a person check the translations, why not just have that person write the translations in the first place? -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org |
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On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 15:58:18 -0500, "Suzanne S. Barnhill"
wrote: Actually, Jay, I think the French and Spanish translations are available offline (but only for one word at a time). And note that you can select the "flavor" of Spanish you want. Not that I wouldn't still caution users about the use of any kind of machine translation, and especially of word-for-word translation, which would probably be worse than useless for most phrases. Yes, I see that now (hadn't played with the off-line version and remembered what we were shown before Word 2003 shipped). But the "flavors" I see are Modern Sort vs. Traditional Sort, which IIRC refers to where letters such as ñ appear in alphabetic ordering. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org |
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Okay, hadn't tried it recently, but you'd think if the proofing tools have
all those flavors they'd offer them in translation as well. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 15:58:18 -0500, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Actually, Jay, I think the French and Spanish translations are available offline (but only for one word at a time). And note that you can select the "flavor" of Spanish you want. Not that I wouldn't still caution users about the use of any kind of machine translation, and especially of word-for-word translation, which would probably be worse than useless for most phrases. Yes, I see that now (hadn't played with the off-line version and remembered what we were shown before Word 2003 shipped). But the "flavors" I see are Modern Sort vs. Traditional Sort, which IIRC refers to where letters such as ñ appear in alphabetic ordering. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org |
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