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Is it possible to get WF to match CAPS and small letters automatically?
Thread poster: Marie-Hélène Hayles
Marie-Hélène Hayles
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Dec 7, 2005

I've set Pandora's box to Different case = 99, but is there anyway to make Wordfast automatically *match* the case in the translation? I translate a lot of very similar contracts where the only difference between a given segment is the use of words in caps or small letters. It would save me a lot of time if Wordfast would just match the original instead of making me do it manually every time.
 
Samuel Murray
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Write your own macro Dec 8, 2005

Marie-Helene Hayles wrote:
I translate a lot of very similar contracts where the only difference between a given segment is the use of words in caps or small letters.


I recorded a macro for that. My TM contains TUs in all uppercase, but sometimes I get segments in new texts in sentence case. So I recorded a macro that responds to Alt+Num5 to change the uppercase into sentence case. Very useful and not complicated.
 
Marie-Hélène Hayles
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A very belated thanks to Samuel Feb 17, 2006

So basically the answer is no

I'll have to go to the macro-writing session at the next Proz conference...
 
Jaroslav Tomiczek
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Shift+F3 Feb 23, 2006

Samuel Murray wrote:
I recorded a macro for that. My TM contains TUs in all uppercase, but sometimes I get segments in new texts in sentence case. So I recorded a macro that responds to Alt+Num5 to change the uppercase into sentence case. Very useful and not complicated.


Isn't this function already included in Word? (Shift+F3)
Jaro
 


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