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What's the best way to prepare .doc/docx dubbing scripts?
Thread poster: Pedro Ribeiro
Pedro Ribeiro
Pedro Ribeiro
Portugal
Local time: 20:29
English to Portuguese
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Sep 22, 2023

Hi everyone!

So I have these dubbing scripts I need to translate. They're .doc and .docx Word files that consist in table with three columns: character, timecode and dialogue.
Currently, I open them in MS Word, hide the "Character" and the "Timecode" column and just import it into MemoQ. I could just copy it to an Excel, yeah, and use the Excel filter, but some words are (and need to be) highlighted and Excel doesn't support word highlighting.

Could there be a sim... See more
Hi everyone!

So I have these dubbing scripts I need to translate. They're .doc and .docx Word files that consist in table with three columns: character, timecode and dialogue.
Currently, I open them in MS Word, hide the "Character" and the "Timecode" column and just import it into MemoQ. I could just copy it to an Excel, yeah, and use the Excel filter, but some words are (and need to be) highlighted and Excel doesn't support word highlighting.

Could there be a simpler way to do it, messing around with the Word filter and not having to hide text? How would you do it?

Thank you!

EDIT: I also wanted MemoQ to segment each cell as a segment

[Edited at 2023-09-22 18:16 GMT] ▲ Collapse
 
Stepan Konev
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Russian Federation
Local time: 22:29
English to Russian
Add column 4 Sep 23, 2023

In your 3-column table copy and paste the source text column so that you have a 4-column table with two identical columns. Hide the first three columns and import the file as you did with 3 columns. Now you can apply formatting to your translation.
For paragraph based segmentation you need to remove all segmentation rules for your project, or even better create a new "segmentation rule" containing no segmentation rules. Try this video:
... See more
In your 3-column table copy and paste the source text column so that you have a 4-column table with two identical columns. Hide the first three columns and import the file as you did with 3 columns. Now you can apply formatting to your translation.
For paragraph based segmentation you need to remove all segmentation rules for your project, or even better create a new "segmentation rule" containing no segmentation rules. Try this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vm0__FN83L0 ▲ Collapse
 


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What's the best way to prepare .doc/docx dubbing scripts?






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