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SDL Trados Studio - A Practical Guide

By : Andy Walker
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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

Converting terminology between MultiTerm and Excel


In this section, we show you how to convert a simple Excel glossary into a MultiTerm termbase and vice versa. There are two options for converting terminology from glossaries into MultiTerm. One is the Glossary Converter app that users with a valid SDL Trados Studio license can download from the SDL OpenExchange App Store, and the other is the MultiTerm Convert tool that is included with the standard MultiTerm installation.

Glossary Converter allows you to convert terminology between MultiTerm termbases and Excel glossaries. It creates a new termbase when converting terminology from an Excel glossary, but does not allow you to import term lists to an existing termbase. MultiTerm Convert, on the other hand, allows you to convert glossaries from various formats into MultiTerm, but not to export out of MultiTerm. MultiTerm Convert is arguably more complex to use than Glossary Converter, but gives users correspondingly more control over the import...