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SDL Trados Studio - A Practical Guide

By : Andy Walker
Book Image

SDL Trados Studio - A Practical Guide

By: Andy Walker

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (18 chapters)
SDL Trados Studio – A Practical Guide
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Working in a project


As you learned in Chapter 3, Translating a File, when you translate a single file with the Translate Single Document approach and first save the file, thereby creating the SDLXLIFF, SDL Trados Studio automatically creates a project file (with the extension .sdlproj). However, you can also create your own projects to house one or more files for translation. A project acts as a container for the following:

  • All the files that you are translating or using for reference (which we will refer to collectively as project files)

  • Any TMs, termbases, and AutoSuggest dictionaries that you use

  • Any settings that you configure in SDL Trados Studio

This applies irrespective of whether you are translating a single file or several files (except that a single file project cannot contain reference files).

Reasons to use a project

Using the New Project feature to create a project has a number of advantages, some of which are as follows:

  • Projects are a convenient way of translating a group of files...