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Is there a plug-in for Word, other than Wordfast that links to an existing glossary?
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George Rabel
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Dec 15, 2021

I have a client with a very comprehensive glossary, which makes it very time-consuming, since you need to constantly check to ensure glossary compliance. Sometimes I have to translate and other times I have to proof translations. Can't use Wordfast Classic on my Mac and it is not practical to start a Wordfast Pro project for every document.
Is there a some plug-in that I can install that links to the glossary, so glossary items are automatically highlighted?
 
Michael Beijer
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tlTerm? Dec 15, 2021

Probably overkill for your particular situation, but tlTerm has a feature where it can show any matches from your termbase inside Word.

See: http://tshwanedje.com/terminology/#word

"Integration with Word dramatically improves the productivity of translators and terminology practitioners by performing continuous instant lookups of the word at the current cursor position.<... See more
Probably overkill for your particular situation, but tlTerm has a feature where it can show any matches from your termbase inside Word.

See: http://tshwanedje.com/terminology/#word

"Integration with Word dramatically improves the productivity of translators and terminology practitioners by performing continuous instant lookups of the word at the current cursor position.

This also helps ensure the appropriate and consistent use of standardised terminology. The overlay window includes shortcuts for adding new terms (when not found) or editing existing terms."

terminology_word

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Hans Lenting
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Macro Dec 15, 2021

George Rabel wrote:

Is there a some plug-in that I can install that links to the glossary, so glossary items are automatically highlighted?


https://wordribbon.tips.net/T001173_Highlight_Words_from_a_Word_List.html

Has to be adapted for the path and use of highlighting instead of bold.

The macro could be enhanced to display the target terms in subscript after the source terms, or in foot notes or revision comments. Or in {fields} that can be displayed individually or all together. Or a blue hyperlink to the glossary entry.

BTW: Which version of Ms Word are you using, since I understood that Yves got Wfc working again on Mac?


[Edited at 2021-12-16 04:13 GMT]
 
Hans Lenting
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Tool Dec 16, 2021

https://acolada.de/en/home/velingua-overview/velingua-terminology-check/
 
Hans Lenting
Hans Lenting
Netherlands
Member (2006)
German to Dutch
Windows and Mac version of the highlighting macro Dec 16, 2021

Glossary contains:

document
macro
word


Windows version of the macro:


Sub CompareWordList()
Dim sCheckDoc As String
Dim docRef As Document
Dim docCurrent As Document
Dim wrdRef As Object

sCheckDoc = "c:\werk\glossary.docx"
Set docCurrent = Selection.Document
Set docRef = Documents.Open(sCheckDoc)
docCurrent.Activate

With Selection.Find
.ClearFormatting
.Replacement.ClearFormatting
.Replacement.Highlight = True
.Replacement.Text = "^&"
.Forward = True
.Format = True
.MatchWholeWord = True
.MatchCase = True
.MatchWildcards = False
End With

For Each wrdRef In docRef.Words
If Asc(Left(wrdRef, 1)) > 32 Then
With Selection.Find
.Wrap = wdFindContinue
.Text = wrdRef
.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
End With
End If
Next wrdRef

docRef.Close
docCurrent.Activate
End Sub


Result:

Screen Shot 2021-12-16 at 08.06.39

Mac version:

I had to use the font colour bright green to mark the words, since for some obscure reason, highlighting didn't work.

Available text colours:

wdBlue
wdBrightGreen
wdDarkBlue
wdDarkRed
wdDarkYellow
wdGray25
wdGray50
wdGreen
wdPink
wdRed
wdTeal
wdTurquoise
wdViolet
wdWhite
wdYellow


You have to place the glossary in the Documents folder.


Sub CompareWordList()
Dim sCheckDoc As String
Dim docRef As Document
Dim docCurrent As Document
Dim wrdRef As Object

sCheckDoc = "glossary.docx"
Set docCurrent = Selection.Document
Set docRef = Documents.Open(sCheckDoc)
docCurrent.Activate

With Selection.Find
.ClearFormatting
.Replacement.ClearFormatting
.Replacement.Font.ColorIndex = wdBrightGreen
.Replacement.Text = "^&"
.Forward = True
.Format = True
.MatchWholeWord = True
.MatchCase = True
.MatchWildcards = False
End With

For Each wrdRef In docRef.Words
If Asc(Left(wrdRef, 1)) > 32 Then
With Selection.Find
.Wrap = wdFindContinue
.Text = wrdRef
.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
End With
End If
Next wrdRef

docRef.Close
docCurrent.Activate
End Sub


Result:

Screen Shot 2021-12-16 at 09.51.25



[Edited at 2021-12-16 09:20 GMT]
 


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