When setting up a file format configuration for Microsoft Excel, there are many options to choose from to ensure the translation is successful. This page will explain the most common options for Excel files.
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Please click on a section to see specific information regarding a configuration option:
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To learn more about working with file format configurations, please see the following pages:
- Viewing File Format Configurations
- Modifying Format Configurations
- Creating Format ConfigurationsView file format configurations
- Modify file format configurations
- Create file format configurations
- Test and validate file format configurations
General Tab
The General Tab contains options for choosing what type of content will be translated and what portions of the Excel file will be extracted. For example, a custom configuration would be helpful if you desire to only extract certain columns, rows, or sheets for monolingual content or when the translation will be for a multilingual content.
- Mono or Multilingual Content - The default Excel file format configuration is set up to translate monolingual content. This option may be used to create a custom configuration with specific extraction rules for monolingual content or to translate multilingual files. A custom configuration is necessary to translate multilingual Excel files.
Info title Remember Bring additional metadata to your multilingual configurations by means of custom fields for segments!
- Columns - These options may be used to configure specific columns to extract from the Excel file and for choosing to exclude hidden columns from the translation.
- Rows - These options may be used to configure what row the translation will start on and for choosing to exclude hidden rows from the translation.
- Sheets - These options may be used to cconfigure specific sheets to be translated and for choosing to exclude hidden sheets from the translation.
- Other Content - Extract or exclude document properties, headers, footers, sheet names, and user comments from the translation.
- Text Segmentation - Enable/Disable SRX rules for text segmentation and choose to spilt or not split text at line breaks. By default, the system segments the document by cell, this means that if there are three sentences within a cell, they will be considered one segment. If SRX rules are enabled for text segmentation, the sentences will be segmented at each punctuation mark or line break (as defined by the SRX rules). The default or a customized set of SRX might have splitting text at line breaks disabled. In this instance, you can enable "Always Split Text at Line Breaks" to ensure this portion of segmentation is handled correctly.
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QA
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The QA tab allows to specify minimum and/or maximum lengths for each translation segment. This constraints are applied to the whole segment, for each language available.
Limits can be customized for different source columns with absolute char values, percentages or even from values from a given column in the file.
For a given source column, the system selects by priority the first limit in the list that explicitly refers to this column.
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| View our Microsoft Excel file format Questions and Answers section to learn how to perform common file format customisations. These examples are the most frequently answered by our support team. |
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