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If you are talking literally about a CAT tool, then it will translate into any language variant you choose — since in essences it is only a system for breaking down the text into chucnk
Con-fid-ent Latin 'cum' = 'with' + the stem 'fid-' = 'faith, trust'
So all the meanings are related by this notion of 'having trust / faith'
In the older uses you mention, one might<
Forget the sites where you have to pay to APPLY for jobs —the likelihood of actually GETTING one is pretty low, especially for a beginner.
I have been a member of ProZ.com for many ye
I can imagine the only people who could possibly have the authorization to post using your profile might be site staff — though that would clearly have been an error in this instance!
F
[quote]Jenny Duthie wrote:
Hello everyone,
I received the same email a few days ago, I'm sure it's a scam. I replied, asking for further info, company details, etc. Needless to say,
Copies and pastes fine for me, seems to be just a standard hyphen character?
Do you have an issue with fonts, perhaps? Maybe try again, changing the font before you copy and paste?
Sadly, this useful resource is no longer available on the original page.
Does anyone know where it can be found now — or might anyone by chance have ever downloaded it?
Thanks!
The ProZ.com site truncates longer links, you see the ... at the end, but this doesn't usually stop them working. You can check by hovering over them to see the full URL.
HOWEVER, if you
I got the same message, and read it with the same reservations.
The 'reply to' e-mail address is [email protected] — so a legitimate-looking domaine name.
Note that th
I have never bought a PC in the UK, so can't comment on that point.
For historical reasons, I have for some years now run both an office and a laptop computer; the laptop was actually a
[quote]mariealpilles wrote:
I never read any further when an email starts with 'Hi' - we are supposed to be entering a business relationship... [/quote]
You're quite right that
Some time back, I decided to move over to OpenOffice, but got masses of complaints from my customers about file incompatibilities once returned, so i had to give up.
In one instance,
[quote]Dinorah Maria Tijerino-Acosta wrote:
I still do not understand how does the scam function.[/quote]
They deliberately send you too much money, and then very quickly come up wit
I don't know if one of these might help you? They are really intended for splitting very large files into smaller chunks, but would probably do what you need — except for the fact that o
...such a feature, for splitting a document (and then reassembling it later!); there is also the 'master document' function which may be what you need; however, I don't know if these same<
Hello Dinorah!
There is no doubt at all this is a scam! Please don't waste any more of your time working on thie fake translation job; stop right away!
Your post shows all of the war
[quote]Maija Cirule wrote:
[quote]Maija Cirule wrote:
that 6 independent users have logged in the same forum from the same IP address in London or vicinity. [/quote]
Like I said,
[quote]Maija Cirule wrote:
[Yesterday] a logged in freelancer with IP adress in London or its vicinity has visited my profile 6 times. He/she came from the forum about incentives to sta
[quote]Shouguang Cao wrote:
F8 doesn't seem to work that way. Press F8 will select the word under cursor.
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That's odd, it does here! Maybe it's changed on more recent versio
...maybe?
If you press F8 before you start typing, and then F8 at the end of the part you want, it should let you select it in that way; PROVIDED you don't in the interim select anything<
I gave up trying to translate directly in Excel a long time ago!
I don't know whether my workflow would work for your particualr document, but I find this works very well for me.
In
[quote]Nor Afizah Thalhan wrote:
Always ensure the agency is listed in Blue Board! As simple as that. [/quote]
Certainly a good starting point; BUT... other agencies do exist outsid
Unlike factors relating to difficulty of text, experience (and quality!) of translator, supply-&-demand vs. availability of resources in a particular language pair, which all have a le
[quote]Tomás Cano Binder, BA, CT wrote:
Wow. I did not know this! In this case, Microsoft's designers were not too intuitive. In the Find/Replace box ... the pop-up list contains G
[quote]Georgi Kovachev wrote:
How could I remove the text from a certain point of the file to the end of the document?
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I don't know about the latest versions, but in older ve
[quote]Manuela Junghans wrote:
...there´s no "open and repair" option in the dropdown menu... [/quote]
That's funny, what version of Word are you using? Perhaps this very useful featu
I believe I remember seeing mention of a utility that will extract all images from a doc and then put them back in place (if you want!)
But our colleague's suggestion sounds even simple
If you haven't already tried it, if you use File > Open to select your file (assuming you can see it?), the 'Open' button then has a dropdwon that includes the option 'open and repair', wh
For PPT, I use a little utility called Werecat (search and download) (no longer supported by developer, but works OK with older versions of Word / PPT)
This extracts ALL text from text<
If you have inadvertently accepted a job outside your fields of expertise, the sensible — and in my view, only honest — thing to do is to post this as a proofing job and hope a colleag
As Walter syas, that is not a reputable agency, full stop!
Any reputable agency would volunteer verifiable information about the company; if you have to go and search for it yourself, t
[quote]Charles Stanford wrote:
11 years on but I think Tony has been done a major injustice in this thread. [/quote]
How kind of you to notice, Charles!
I was merely trying to g
Sadly, I'm afraid you're on a hiding to nothing here!
By their very nature, PDF files are intended to be non-editable, and all the systems I've ever seen for editing them are nothing mo
This has been going around for several years already.
1) Too much unnecessary info
2) Coming on holiday for specific dates — yet alternative dates are invited?
3) The offer of a
Is the file size similar, or much-reduced? I.e. has data actually been lost?
I would start by using "Select all..." to see if there is anything there? Try highighting and/or changing the
It seems as if your machine may be for SORTING (vegetables?) according to their SIZE — many markets require them to be 'graded' into certain size bands, either by dimensions or weight.
As a senior translator, I am often asked to assess test translations.
Generally speaking, the fee paid and the time allocated do not allow a detailed report of each test to be given —
I understand your frustration, but you need to get your head round the notion that NOTHING you do can stop these people — so for your own sanity, the best thing to do is to filter the me
John's suggestion works, but for a better result in some documents, you can do it in 2 stages. If you FIRST OF ALL do a search-&-replace all for 2 successive ¶ marks, repalcing them this
I have to sat that the opinions expressed by our colleagues above are not always entirely the case.
Some translation agencies ask you to "do a test translation to see if you can work fo
In any case, Lenart, if this IS a feature for paying members only, and if you don't happen to be a paying member, then there is of course another, more long winded way of doing it, which w
[quote]Alison MacG wrote:
I seem to recall being informed that this feature is only available to paying members.[/quote]
I wondered about that myself; but almost everywhere else on t
I think there is a simpler way.
Using the Windows 'Capture' tool (in 'Windows accessories'), just select the part of the screen you wish to show, then use the 'save as' command to save
No seriously, though...
I have had a vaguely similar problem under W7, but not using Dragon.
Just sometimes, for no discernable reason, it fails to recognize various audio devices
[quote]PREAULT JY wrote:
...But honestly, a paying member ?
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It is amazing, isn't it? Yet it has happened countless times before — a sheer loss for them, since of course th
A few years ago, I was having quite serious eyesight problems, and tried all sort of solutions to see if anything helped.
My eye muscles are fully relaxed when my eyes are focused on
For various historical reasons, I am working on a laptop (for my sins!), and I use it with the desktop extended onto a second, external monitor. This suits me just fine: I use the larger,
[quote]William Pairman wrote:
They're physical specks on the surface of the screen, like little hard blobs of plastic, or "chips"[/quote]
I have a similar problem — although your pho
1) There are various utilities such as Merge-Split, some paid, some free, that would enable you to combine all the doc files into a single file first, and THEN convert this to PDF usin
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