Poll: Do you ever work in Word? Αποστολέας σε συζήτηση: ProZ.com Staff
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| When AI can't read the source and Trados gives up! | Jan 20 |
A little piece of paper, neatly folded in four and placed in an envelope sometime in the last century, with handwritten details and a stamped emblem.
Then photographed with a mobile phone with shadows from folds and reflections - it has nearly all the features of a Captcha 'prove you are human' test!
These are also important documents for many Danes: their birth and baptism certificates. Of course, they are in Danish, and sometimes people need an English version, so I get the... See more A little piece of paper, neatly folded in four and placed in an envelope sometime in the last century, with handwritten details and a stamped emblem.
Then photographed with a mobile phone with shadows from folds and reflections - it has nearly all the features of a Captcha 'prove you are human' test!
These are also important documents for many Danes: their birth and baptism certificates. Of course, they are in Danish, and sometimes people need an English version, so I get them regularly to translate. The same applies to marriage certificates, driving licences and other personal documents, which are not easily read by machines. Machines can pick up bar codes and may recognise a photograph, but not all documents have those.
It is a pity Trados cannot read them, because it could take over the formatting, which I patiently do in Word. The text is limited and often standard, but the names and personal details are not - and anyway, they may be sensitive information subject to GDPR. I delete the details when I have completed the job and sent the translation to the client.
I save templates whenever relevant, but the forms were not always standardised, so I usually end up creating a new document from scratch with tables, tabulations and so on.
The originals were often created in older versions of Word, so it is the logical way to get similar results in the translation. ▲ Collapse
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Liena V. 
Λετονία
Local time: 10:16
Μέλος από 2014
Γαλλικά σε Λετωνικά
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I have cancelled my Microsoft Office subscription (although I still have to pay for another 3 months) and am using LibreOffice instead. I also have a deGoogled phone now and I couldn't be happier. The Big Tech won't be getting a cent from me and I will no longer be volunteering any data to them.
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Sean O'Byrne
Γερμανία
Local time: 09:16
Γερμανικά σε Αγγλικά
| Word in LibreOffice | Jan 20 |
To be precise, I frequently work with Word documents provided by my client, but work on them in LibreOffice. I'm happy to say I'm all but Microshaft-free.
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WolfgangS
Γαλλία
Local time: 09:16
Αγγλικά σε Γερμανικά
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I switched to the Softmaker Office Suite for Mac.
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Philip Lees
Ελλάδα
Local time: 10:16
Ελληνικά σε Αγγλικά
I have a copy of Word 2003 I use for applying formatting templates to documents. It's really slick and easy to use - and free of all the extra junk that Microsoft piled on to later versions of MS Office.
It's great for adding page numbers, too - just two clicks instead of having to navigate all those unnecessary options.
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Alex Lichanow
Γερμανία
Local time: 09:16
Αγγλικά σε Γερμανικά
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I switched to LibreOffice a while back and never regretted it. While I never had any BS subscription, I am pretty sure Microscam also "upgraded" its old-fashioned perpetual Office licenses with AI. Happy to see I'm not alone with this.
Demicrosoft.
Degoogle.
Deamericanize.
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I use Ms Word to create my invoices.
All translation work is done in CafeTran Espresso on Mac.
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Daryo
Local time: 08:16
Σερβικά σε Αγγλικά
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| What do you mean by 'ever'? | Jan 21 |
One could wonder if you're talking of some kind of fossil still miraculously alive!
I have a 'pro version' of Word for Win XP that uses the '.doc' format (not the current '.docX' format).
One that is **in your own computer** for however long you want - no silly MS business of 'subscription' to something floating somewhere in some 'cloud' to be seen anywhere in my computer.
I still haven’t used more than few paltry % of what that 'old version' of Word can... See more One could wonder if you're talking of some kind of fossil still miraculously alive!
I have a 'pro version' of Word for Win XP that uses the '.doc' format (not the current '.docX' format).
One that is **in your own computer** for however long you want - no silly MS business of 'subscription' to something floating somewhere in some 'cloud' to be seen anywhere in my computer.
I still haven’t used more than few paltry % of what that 'old version' of Word can do, and so far I never needed any of the later added 'new features'. Occasionally I need to use a file format converter, but after that I never had any problems working on the converted files.
I also use LibreOffice - the latest version. ▲ Collapse
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