Simple docx editing for subtitling - combining source and target to single document
Thread poster: Laura Brown
Laura Brown
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Chinese to English
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Nov 4, 2016

This seems like a pretty ridiculous question, but I've racked my brain and I can't figure out how to do it.
I'm usually given a docx file in Word with source language subtitles. I then need to add the target language subtitles below each line, leaving both source and target text within a single document (this formatting is required). With the type of materials I'm working on (news summaries, documentary), I've found enough repetition that I would like to use some CAT software to assist -
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This seems like a pretty ridiculous question, but I've racked my brain and I can't figure out how to do it.
I'm usually given a docx file in Word with source language subtitles. I then need to add the target language subtitles below each line, leaving both source and target text within a single document (this formatting is required). With the type of materials I'm working on (news summaries, documentary), I've found enough repetition that I would like to use some CAT software to assist - I can use the software to translate the source document easily enough, but the document that is produced only has the target language. Does anyone know how I could create a document with both source and target language on it (with formatting as listed above) via CAT tools or some clever Word maneuvering without manually entering each line of target language into the source document?

Thanks in advance.
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Simple docx editing for subtitling - combining source and target to single document







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