Free Tutorials & Solutions

Free tips, solutions and explanations to problems you can come across as a translator. Some of them are related to software used in the office, other to the most important applications — the computer asisted translation tools. Shortly and clean, just to give you an idea what skills you will need as a professional translator and how you can improve your efficiency.

What are computer assisted translation tools? What benefits do they bring? When to use them and what CAT tool to choose? Shortly explained!

This video presents few most important issues that you as translator cannot ignore before you start to translate documents created in Microsoft Word or a similar text editor.

Translation of an Excel sheet can be problematic. Even more problems we can come across when we copy a table from Excel to Word and then we try to copy it back. But there is a solution.

If you, dear translator, want to get jobs tomorrow you have to learn new tools. Translation tools. Computer assisted translation is translators' today and tomorrow.

Using CAT tools is much easier than people think. Higher accuracy, better quality and efficiency. All that you can have if you want. See how these tools work.

Invisible characters in Microsoft Word documents can be very useful. They make possible to keep maximum control over text formatting. How to show and hide them?

What are repetitions and why computer assisted translation is just better than the traditional way to work. How much more efficient can be translation with a cat tool like Trados.

Side by side translating is the perfect way to go if you do not have any CAT tool but you need a good method to translate a Microsoft Word document. How to do this?