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Translation segments are too long
Thread poster: Justine Sherwood
Justine Sherwood
Justine Sherwood  Identity Verified
Italy
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Dutch to English
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Jul 30, 2014

Hi,

I am trying to save a file in Wordfast Pro as an Excel file but it says three of the segments are too long. However, they are not. One of them contains the amazingly long text of "7." for example. All three are very short segments and I cannot find any way of saving the file and getting it out of WF!

Any help appreciated! Thanks.

Justine
 
Dominique Pivard
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Local time: 07:22
Finnish to French
Sheet names? Jul 30, 2014

Just an idea: could these overly long segments be sheet names (= the texts displayed in the tabs at the bottom of the sheets)?
 
Justine Sherwood
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Italy
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No Jul 30, 2014

thanks, but no, they're cells in the Excel file.
 
Dominique Pivard
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Local time: 07:22
Finnish to French
XLS -> XLSX Jul 30, 2014

If your original Excel file was an XLS, you could try saving it as XLSX. Then, open it in Wordfast Pro, retranslate it (should be very fast) and see if you can save the translated file.
 
Justine Sherwood
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Italy
Local time: 06:22
Dutch to English
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XLSX Jul 30, 2014

It's an XLSX. I'll try it the other way around.
 
John Daniel
John Daniel
Local time: 22:22
Screenshot Jul 30, 2014

Hi Justine,

Can you attach the screenshot of this error message?

Thank you,

John
 
Justine Sherwood
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Problem resolved Jul 31, 2014

Problem did turn out to be the sheet names - sorry for the confusion!
 


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