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confirming identical source/target segments
Thread poster: simon tanner
simon tanner
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May 3, 2011

Hi everyone,

I am translating a file where a lot of the target segments are identical to the source (company names, website addresses etc.) Each time I go to confirm one of these segments I get the following message:

"The target text is identical to the source text in the segment you are confirming. You might lose your translation if you copied the source text to the target cell accidentally. Are you sure you want to confirm this segment?"

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Hi everyone,

I am translating a file where a lot of the target segments are identical to the source (company names, website addresses etc.) Each time I go to confirm one of these segments I get the following message:

"The target text is identical to the source text in the segment you are confirming. You might lose your translation if you copied the source text to the target cell accidentally. Are you sure you want to confirm this segment?"

Does anyone know if I can tweak the settings in some way to avoid getting this warning every time, which just slows me down?

Thanks

Simon ▲ Collapse
 
Tomás Cano Binder, BA, CT
Tomás Cano Binder, BA, CT  Identity Verified
Spain
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English to Spanish
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Discussed recently May 3, 2011

Check this: http://esl.proz.com/forum/memoq_support/197711-how_to_get_rid_of_warning.html

Good luck!
 
simon tanner
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thanks May 3, 2011

Perfect, Tomás, thanks a lot
 


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