Part one

Introduction to Project Management

• Translation Technology concepts
• Familiarisation with the SDL Trados Studio User Interface
• Preparing the project management environment
  • Adding users
  • Adding customers
• Opening and handling a project package (an overview of how a translator works)
• Translating in the translation editor and navigating in your project
  • Using predictive typing resources: AutoSuggest dictionaries
  • Editing fuzzy matches
  • Automatic number substitution
  • Applying character formatting
  • Using Active terminology recognition
  • Using the Real-time preview
  • Handling tags
  • Performing Concordance searches
  • Tracking your translation progress
  • Finishing and saving your translation
• Configuring your spellchecker
  • Running the spellcheck
• Creating and sending the return package

Summary

Creating a multilingual project

• Entering the project details
  • Selecting source language and target languages
  • Adding the project files and selecting usage
  • Alternatively, merge files
  • Add translation memories and AutoSuggest dictionary
  • Adding termbases
  • Automatic project preparation
  • Saving the project as a template, thereby streamlining the creation of future projects
  • Project statistics and reports
  • Configuring the QA (Quality Assurance) settings
  • Assigning the package to a translator
  • Specifying a deadline
  • Creating a translation project package

Importing the translated return package

• Opening the master project, you created the project package from
• Importing the return package from the translator into the original project
• Creating a bilingual table for proofreading and/or spellchecking in Word
• Importing the reviewed translation
• Signing off reviewed documents as a project manager
• Filtering for segments that have been changed or have comments attached
• Accepting or rejecting the suggested changes
• Running a QA (Quality Assurance)
• Checking and correcting any errors
• Finalising the project
• Updating your TM
• Generating the target files
• Exporting the target files

Summary

Part two

SDL PerfectMatch

• Maximising the benefits by utilising signed-off translations (legacy bilingual SDLXLIFF files from the past) instead of the legacy TM

Aligning legacy files

• Creating TMs from legacy source and corresponding target files

Generating AutoSuggest dictionaries

• Enabling your translators to work faster and more error-free using predictive typing.

Creating termbases from Excel glossaries

• Using SDL MultiTerm Convert for the conversion of Excel glossaries
• Importing the converted files into a SDL MultiTerm termbase

Questions and answers session

NB: There will be several breaks during an onsite course. On online courses, there will be one break halfway through the 2.5 hours’ session.