3.2.1 - eXercise

IDevice Icon Activity 1

To start an alignment project in SDL Trados WinAlign take the following steps:

 

1. Switch to the Home view of SDL Trados Studio 2009 and click the toolbar button "Align Translated Documents". This will open the SDL Trados WinAlign application, in which the alignment project will be set up.

2. In WinAlign select the menu command File -> New.

3. In the New WinAlign Project dialog box make sure that English (UK) is selected as source language.

4. Click the Target Language button to select your preferred target language (Czech).

5. From the File Type dropdown list select Microsoft Word Documents (*.doc).

6. Check the option TRADOStag XML Workflow for Word .doc files.

7. The dialog box should now look as shown below. Click the Files tab to proceed.

 

 

8. On the Files tab click the Add button on the bottom left. Then browse to your sample files location and select the source document.

9. Repeat this procedure to select the target file.

10. Then click the Align File Names button.

 

11. Click the Export tab and select the option Translation Memory Exchange Format (TMX).

Make sure the check box Export as TMX 1.4 is activated.*

 

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* As the WinAlign application was originally developed for SDL Trados 2007 that used an older version of TMX, this option has to be checked to ensure compatibility with the current version of SDL Trados Studio 2009.