Forum: MemoQ support
Topic: How to count words only for one language in a multilingual document
Poster: Carl Carter
Post title: Ask the customer to do it or ask for an Excel file
If you're going to be working on a multilingual project and translating software strings, then the customer might have sent you an Excel file containing the source-language strings in one column and additional columns for each target language. If that's the case, open it in Excel, mark the whole source column and copy it into a blank TXT or Word file and count it there. (One text editor you might use is Notepad++, which comes with a word counter under TextFX > TextFX Tools.)
Another way of doing it would be to mark all the text you don't want to measure, hide it or save it in another format that memoQ can ignore, and then import the file into memoQ and measure it there (under "Statistics"). (See the help documentation - press F1 - for more details.)
If the source file is another format and the various languages are mixed up, then it will probably be very fiddly and time-consuming to measure the number of words in the source language. You could either do it manually after arranging to charge a special price for making the quotation or get the customer to do it him/herself if he/she doesn't wish to pay for the service.
It doesn't sound as though you should make a free quotation in this case as there may not be a quick way of measuring the file.
Another idea would be to get the customer to produce a new source file which only contains the original source language. That ought to be relatively easy to measure and quote for. It all depends on the file format.
Regards
Carl
Topic: How to count words only for one language in a multilingual document
Poster: Carl Carter
Post title: Ask the customer to do it or ask for an Excel file
If you're going to be working on a multilingual project and translating software strings, then the customer might have sent you an Excel file containing the source-language strings in one column and additional columns for each target language. If that's the case, open it in Excel, mark the whole source column and copy it into a blank TXT or Word file and count it there. (One text editor you might use is Notepad++, which comes with a word counter under TextFX > TextFX Tools.)
Another way of doing it would be to mark all the text you don't want to measure, hide it or save it in another format that memoQ can ignore, and then import the file into memoQ and measure it there (under "Statistics"). (See the help documentation - press F1 - for more details.)
If the source file is another format and the various languages are mixed up, then it will probably be very fiddly and time-consuming to measure the number of words in the source language. You could either do it manually after arranging to charge a special price for making the quotation or get the customer to do it him/herself if he/she doesn't wish to pay for the service.
It doesn't sound as though you should make a free quotation in this case as there may not be a quick way of measuring the file.
Another idea would be to get the customer to produce a new source file which only contains the original source language. That ought to be relatively easy to measure and quote for. It all depends on the file format.
Regards
Carl