Whether you’re a translator or reviewer involved directly with translations, or a company regularly seeking translation services, I bet you’ve wondered—at one point or another—how translation companies manage to deliver their services.
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A nice feature of Google Search is the ability to quickly look up a term. With a single—and simple—keyword search pattern you can obtain a term’s definition as well as its synonyms/antonyms.
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When font in your CAT Tool’s Editor window is too small, or varies in size/color hindering your work (i.e. when dealing with PowerPoint or Excel files in SDL Trados Studio) you have the ability to adjust it from within the CAT Tool’s preferences.
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In some cases, especially with new, unknown clients, it doesn’t hurt to check their payment credibility online. Though this tip isn’t fail-safe, any information you can obtain from it will further help you decide whether it’s worth collaborating with this client.
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Here’s a quick hack that I’ve put together to help Translation Project Managers (TPMs) figure out quickly the number of resources (translators and reviewers) they’ll need for a project’s given deadline and word count.
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