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Convert Excel to TMX

Summary:

  • Input: a spreadsheet containing source text in one column and at least one more column with the translation.
  • Expected output: a TMX file for each language pair

Approaches

We have different ways to conduct this task:

Bilingual input

If the spreadsheet contains one language pair, then it's okay to do in TMX Editor:

  • Go to File > Convert Excel file to TMX

Multilingual input

If the spreadsheet contains many language pairs, then it's more efficient to use this script.

This approach requires running a Python script, if you're not comfortable with that, do not hesitate to ask the TTT to do this conversion for you.

In this case, attention must be paid to the configuration (either with a config.json file or in the first worksheet, called config, of the spreadsheet -- example provided here).