I have this bilingual .doc from Trados (Computer Assisted Translation tool)
which contains a segmented text in two languages: the source and target
languages. Now, before I send it to the client, I need to find all the
hidden segments, which are put between tags and have been formatted as
Hidden in Word/Trados.
To explain it a bit better: if I go to View > Nonprinting Characters and
deselect the option, this is what I see in my text window:
HTPC BULLETIN October 2009 ISSUE Νo 22
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*But if I go to View > Nonprinting Characters and select it, then I get all
this:
{0>ΕΝΗΜΕΡΩΤΙΚΟ ΔΕΛΤΙΟ ΤΗΣ ΕΕΤΤ ● Οκτώβριος 2009 ● ΤΕΥΧΟΣ Νο 22<}95{>HTPC
BULLETIN October 2009 ISSUE Νo 22<0}
All the extra text which you see in the 2nd sample (but not in the 1st) have
been designated as "Hidden".
Here's what I need to do: to select ALL text throughout my document which
has been marked as Hidden, and replace it with ... nothing. To delete it. To
end up with a 'clean' document in just the target language.
In M$ Word I was told to do the following, which worked: Invoke the Search
and Replace dialog by pressing CTRL+H, then put my cursor in the Search box
but leave it empty, and just press CTRL+SHIFT+H, which will instruct Word to
find everything that's HIDDEN. Then, with the Replace field also empty,
click on OK. This does delete all hidden text (i.e. it replaces it with
nothing), leaving a clean, target language file behind.
The problem: I can't for the life of me figure out how to select text that's
hidden in OpenOffice. I seem to remember something like Regular Expressions
(or something to this effect), which basically allows you to select, say
Carriage Returns and other special characters, but nothing that I've tried
has helped me select all text hidden.
And to manually find it and delete it is just out of the question. So, what
you say guys, give a little help? Surely OOo can do it!
Many thanks, as always.
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