If I were a programmer and had anything to do with Open Office, I would be embarrassed at having a mailing list that won't let you get off it!!! Surly there is someone in your group that has that ability?????
-----Original Message----- From: JOE Conner [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, November 16, 2009 12:14 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [users] Bilingual file with hidden text-How to replace all hidden with "" (i.e. nothing) Alex Zachopoulos wrote: > 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 > * > * > *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. One suggestion, try printing to a text file, then using that as your translator input. Joe Conner, Poulsbo, WA USA
