Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
Software Strings
Japanese translation:
進む(&F) / 名前を付けて保存(&A)
English term
Japan
At your Service, Always on Time
Native in: English 
, Japanese
Works in: Japanese to English, English to Japanese
Software Strings
&Forward
&Remove
Save &as...
Open frame in new &tab
| 4 +3 | 進む(&F) / 名前を付けて保存(&A) |
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PRO (2): sigmalanguage, Katalin Horváth McClure
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Proposed translations
Japan
Broad knowledge base
Native in: Japanese
Works in: English to Japanese, Japanese to English, German to Japanese
進む(&F) / 名前を付けて保存(&A)
The Japanese convention is to add these at the end of the phrases like:
ファイル(&F) for &File
編集(&E) for &Edit
Your examples should be translated as:
進む(&F)
消去(&R)
名前を付けて保存(&A)...
Please use your own translation for Forward, Remove, and Save as. I cannot assure you that these are suitable for your software.
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Note added at 14 hrs (2010-02-09 22:44:42 GMT)
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Remove might better be translated as 削除(&R) rather than 消去(R), but in any case this is nothing more than guesswork.
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Katalin Horváth McClure
: It is customary to use the standard Microsoft translations for such menu items.
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Yes. Good point.
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Minoru Kuwahara
: Exactly the point I conveyed. Thanks, sigmalanguage-san. :-) -
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Thanks to you, too. :-) You deserve credit for the shortcut explanation.
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htake1
: totally agree to the "cap letter in parentesis at the end" format. I'd vote for "削除" for "Remove" btw.
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Thanks. Yes, 削除 is better if this is the removal of a page or something.
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