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Trados 2017 not showing full text after segments merged
Thread poster: John Kingsmore
John Kingsmore
John Kingsmore
English to Portuguese
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Sep 6, 2019

As usual, I end up spending 10 times more trying to figure out Trados than acually translating...

I had to merge segments – and now find that while everything looks good in the source and target in Trados, when I hit preview [source or target] the rest of the sentence – except the first line,[ or the orignal first segment] – has disappeared: any ideas how to fix this?

[IE] 3 merged segemnts, for example, forming one full sentence in both source and target in Trado... See more
As usual, I end up spending 10 times more trying to figure out Trados than acually translating...

I had to merge segments – and now find that while everything looks good in the source and target in Trados, when I hit preview [source or target] the rest of the sentence – except the first line,[ or the orignal first segment] – has disappeared: any ideas how to fix this?

[IE] 3 merged segemnts, for example, forming one full sentence in both source and target in Trados, only display the first line [presumably the initial segment] for both source and target in both html and embedded preview.

EG
- MERGED SOURCE READS:
Darüber hinaus werden in den Unternehmen zunehmend die aufbewahrungspflichtigen Unterlagen in elektronischer Form (z. B. als elektronische Dokumente) aufbewahrt.
- BUT THE EMBEDDED/HTML only shows the first half
- MERGED TARGET READS:
In addition, companies are increasingly storing documents that require retention in electronic form (e.g. as electronic documents).
- BUT THE EMBEDDED/HTML ARGET READS:
In addition, companies are increasingly storing documents that require retention in ....

It's somewhat arbitrary, since it works elsewhere in the file - and it's nothing to do with tags, since the segments merged don't have any tags. Beyond this I have no idea how to fix this. ▲ Collapse
 


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