SDL Trados Studio - Translate Single Document

Open Studio from your desktop.

1. Go to the Welcome view
2. Make sure you’re in the Home tab
3. Click Translate Single Document

Browse to your Word file. Click “open”.

1. Check that your source and target languages are correct.
2. Click create to set up a new Translation Memory (TM). Select New File-Based Translation Memory.

1. Give your new TM a name. As this is going to be a test, you could just write “Test”.
2. Browse to the place where you want to store the TM. I use a single folder for all my TMs, but you can store TMs in client, subject or job folders.

1. Check that you’ve got the right source and target languages and variants (they have to match the languages you chose in the Open Document window).
2. Tick the character-based concordance search if you want to search your TM by groups of characters. It’s useful for small TMs but results can get fuzzy if your TM grows very big. Unfortunately you can’t change this setting later.
3. Now click Finish. In the next window click Close.

The Open Document window returns and you’ll see the new TM has been added and all the boxes to the right have been ticked. Click OK.

The file opens in the Editor window.

1. Start translating! Click in the first segment in the target column and type in your translation.
2. Click Ctrl+Enter.(*) This will confirm the first segment, send it to the TM and move the cursor to the next segment.
3. Translate the other segments.
4. Save the bilingual .sdlxliff file (Ctrl+S). I suggest you save it in the same folder as your source file.
5. Save the target file (Shift+F12). Add a suffix to the file name to distinguish it from the source file.
6. Finished! Close Studio by clicking Alt+F4.