Tuesday, November 23, 2010

How to run Trados 2007 with Word 2010

Supposedly, Trados 2007 (the last "classic" version of Trados) does not work with Word 2010: since Office 2010 was released after Trados 2007, Trados does not detect the new version of Office.

SDL, however, provides a workaround. I have tested the fix with Word 2010 on a Windows 7 64-bit Ultimate machine, and it does work, as you can see from this screenshot.


The workaround is neither guaranteed nor supported (as the SDL article makes clear). But since it seems to work, it might extend Trados "classic" usefulness on newer machines.

For detailed instructions, see the following instructions (suggested by SDL's original article: "SDL Trados 2007 Suite toolbar compatibility with Microsoft Office 2010", article # 3359):

To use Trados 2007 toolbar with Microsoft Office 2010, hook up Word 2010 with SDL Trados Translator's Workbench 2007, as follows:

  1. Make sure that Trados, MultiTerm and Microsoft Office (Word, Outlook, etc.).
    are not running
  2. Find the file Trados8.dotm in the folder C:\Program Files\SDL International\T2007\TT\Templates.
  3. Copy Trados8.dotm into the following folder:
    • Windows XP: C:\Documents and Settings\[USERNAME]\Application Data\Microsoft\Word\Startup\
    • Windows Vista or Windows 7: C:\Users\[USERNAME]\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Word\Startup\
    • If the folder already contains a Trados8.dotm file, overwrite it
  4. Find the file MultiTerm8.dotm in the folder C:\Program Files\SDL\SDL Multiterm\Multiterm8\Templates\.
  5. Copy MultiTerm8.dotm into the following folder:
    • Windows XP: C:\Documents and Settings\[USERNAME]\Application Data\Microsoft\Word\Startup\
    • Windows Vista or Windows 7: C:\Users\[USERNAME]\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Word\Startup\
    • If the folder already contains a MultiTerm8.dotm file, overwrite it. 
Start Microsoft Word 2010. You should now see, and be able to use, Trados's Workbench or MultiTerm from Microsoft Word 2010.

Update


I've updated this post, adding the above detailed instructions, since the link to SDL's article was not working properly.
Posted by Riccardo at 4:31 PM
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31 comments:

  1. Thanks for the post. I recently download the trial version of Trados, still in the process of discovering the software feature.

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  2. Hi Riccardo,

    Thanks for the suggestion. However, when I click on the link, I get an empty page and the URL in the address bar changes to "http://talisma.sdl.com/sessiontimeout.aspx". Could you please check?

    Cheers,
    Pablo

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  3. Hi Pablo,

    Strange, it was working yesterday... I'll see if I can retrieve the original document and copy here the relevant instructions

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  4. Pablo, Riccardo: go to talisma.sdl.com and in the search field in the upper left corner type 3359 - that opens the article in question.

    I've noticed another issue with SDL Trados 2007 Professional and Microsoft Office 2010 Professional Plus. At the moment, I'm translating fairly simple doc files (doc, not docx). I'm unable to move to the next segment with the standard shortcut of Alt+Num+. It simply does nothing. As a workaround, I use Alt+End, Alt+Home, but that's rather inconvenient. Have you encountered such a behaviour or have any idea how to ger rid of it? I checked the keyboard shortcuts in Microsoft Word, and Alt+Num+ is assigned to the appropriate Trados function - but it doesn't work.

    Take care,
    Krzysiek

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  5. I've updated the post, with detailed instructions, since the link to SDL's article did not work properly.

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  6. Hi Krzysiek,

    I'm going out on a limb here, but maybe that shortcut is conflicting with some other shortcut. I haven't tested this past seeing that the Trados ribbon worked and that by clcking on the various Trados icons Workbench worked as it should. I haven't, as yet, tested it more throughly.

    A workaround that comes to mind is to remap that function to some other key combination, see if it works with the other key combination, and, if it does, try to remap it back to Alt+Num+.

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  7. Hi Riccardo,

    Thanks a lot for updating the article. Unfortunately, I tried this some time ago and didn't work. :( It gives me a compilation error - I read that this workaround doesn't work if you have the 64-bit version of Word 2010.

    Many thanks in any case!

    Cheers,
    Pablo

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  8. Hi Pablo,

    I am running a 64-bit version Windows, with Office 2010 (32 bit) - and the workaround seems to be working for me. A pity that SDL won't make the effort of ensuring that Workbench works with the latest version of Office, considering that most translation companies still require Trados 2007, and not SDL Studio 2009.

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  9. Hello,

    this solution worked for me on Windows 7 (32 bit) and Office 2010 (32 bit) system.

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  10. My only issue with SDL Trados this software does not have version for Mac users. I am a bit tired of PC.

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  11. The next segment and translate to fuzzy commands have been changed to Ctrl+Num+ and Ctrl+Num* in Word 2007+

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  13. Thank you so much. This worked for me too and saved me many hours of tearing my hair out. Your instructions were very clear and extremely helpful.

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  14. Hi Riccardo,

    Your blog is very helpful to solve the trados toolbar for Ms Word 2010. Really thankful!

    I have a new problem with Ms Word when I hit the Trados Tool for translation.

    > Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications
    > Wrong number of arguments or invalid property assignment.

    Do you have any solution to solve this Ms Visual Basic errors?

    Pls help me if you can. Thank you!
    Summer

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  15. Hi Riccardo,

    I experience the same problem as Jenn here. Would be most thankful for a solution.

    Great blog by the way!

    Cheers!
    Tobias

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  16. Hi Jenn!

    Don't know if this will be of any use to you if you still have this problem. But I opened:

    C:\User\UserName\AppDate\Roaming\Microsoft\Word\STARTUP

    ...and deleted one of the licenses in there. (I had two, which might have caused this issue)

    Good luck!
    Tobias

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  17. But I still see a problem named
    compile error in hidden module: tw4winMain

    could you please help?

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  18. Works perfectly!

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  19. perfect RSchiaffino, you really have Great blog by the way!

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  20. Hi Riccardo,

    I have the same problem as Jenn and Tobias,

    “Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications
    Wrong number of arguments or invalid property assignment”

    Which licence do you mean is to be deleted?

    And I have the feeling that I do not have Visual Basic installed at all?!
    Which versions of Microsoft Visual Basic is the right one for Windows 7 and MS Word 2007 or 2010?

    Thans for your help!!

    Monika

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  21. Thank you. It is really helpful.

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  22. Hi Monika,

    As regards Visual Basic, I think the necessary file should be installed by Trados during installation... but I'm afraid I have no idea how to solve the Visual Basic error message (Office 2010 after all is not officially supported by SDL for Trados 2007).

    I have found something on the Web:

    http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/TW_users/message/58836?var=1

    that seems to mention the issue - but since I have not experienced this particular issue myself, I cannot say if it works in all cases or not.

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  23. Hi Ricardo... it didn't work :-(

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  24. Hi Ricardo,
    it perfectly works for me. Thanks so much for this post!
    Bests,
    Julia

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  25. Thank you for the info. I am trying to get my Traods 2007 and Word 2010 (Windows 7 home edition) to work but I don't seem to have the folder C:\User\UserName\AppDate\Roaming\Microsoft\Word\STARTUP any suggestions? I don't have a roaming folder at all.

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  26. It's clearly explained on SDL tech support, that SDL Trados is uncompatible with 64-bit version of MS Office 2010. The only solution is to reinstall MS Office 2010 using 32-bit version. Then all workarounds for dot/dotm will start working.

    http://kb.sdl.com/article.aspx?article=3393&p=1

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  27. I follow your instruction. But when start Word 2010 (32 bit)and Trados 2007 a window appears: "SDL Trados Translator`s Workbench is not running"(((

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  28. These are excellent instructions. But if this doesn't work for you(and all else fails), just REMOVE Trados completely, then RE-INSTALL again. Be sure to return the license key before you do that, if you have no extra key available(you can check liscense status at 'My account' page at sdl.com).

    In my case, copy & paste Trados file in Word folder worked when I tried on previous Word versions, but not on Word 2010. After getting so many error messages(arrgghh!!), I just removed and reinstall Trados and it worked like a charm!(oh, and after re-installing Trados, make sure to check 'options' - 'show hidden text' so that you wouldn't panic that source text 'disappeared' in unclean file). Good luck, everyone!
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    To answer 'anonymous' above:

    Translator's workbench doesn't start automatically. You have to do it yourself. Just click 'Workbench' icon and it'll appear.

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  29. @ Anonymous:
    Translator's Workbench is the standalone application which you use to open the TM, and that Word interacts with. It needs to be open for you to be able to use the Trados functions in Word. Just open it from the Start menu, and open a TM in it (.tmw file).

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  30. Your post has been so useful for me, thanks a lot!

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  31. this solution worked for me on Windows 7 (32 bit) and Office 2010 (32 bit) system.

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