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How to translate a full excel sheet to another language with the Microsoft Translator

Following the guide at Best Ways to Translate an Excel File - 2021 Update , clicking on the Microsoft Translator ribbon under "Review", I could not find the "insert" button to ...
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How to Access and Inspect `edge://translate-internals` via CMD-Batch or PowerShell?

I've encountered a specific issue with the Microsoft Edge browser, particularly related to its translation feature. Similar to the situation described in this Reddit post, I am trying to find a way to ...
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Email client with language translation support for Mac OS X

I'm looking for an OS X desktop email client that helps me translate my Japanese work emails into English. Any suggestions?
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using tr from coreutils for windows

I have to transform contents of file from \ to \\ on Windows in script. So I got Coreutils and tried to use tr \ \\ < file_in > file_out on Windows CMD, but \ in file_out remainde \ instead of ...
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Excel Formula to Translate Text into Target Language

I'm looking for a built-in Excel Formula Function to translate text into a target language. I see Google has made a function "GoogleTranslate()" available and was wondering if something equivalent ...
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What are "Global Pages" for? (Intel x86 processors)

In Intel Software Developer's Manual (Intel 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer's Manual, June 2023 edit version) Volume 3A Section 4.10.2.4, while explaining TLBs, the following is said ...
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How to apply horizontal and vertical "translation" by ∆x and ∆y pixels to each frame of a video using ffmpeg or other tool

I have a video of a subject that needs to be tracked by an image tracking software. The problem is, at some point in the video, the camera has been moved, so the area of tracking "shifts" at ...
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How does Chrome know what language a page is in?

I just opened a web page in Google Chrome, and it says "This page is in Japanese, would you like to translate it?". Asking for a translation would presumably send the contents to Google, but how is ...
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How can I filter out sites which had been automatically translated? [closed]

often I stumble upon websites which had been automatically translated by some associated or built-in application and badly so. I assume those websites get my language from the browser identification ...
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Open Office is not showing in English, even though the English language is selected

I don't understand what happened with this Open Office installation. It's on a college computer (Linux), so I can't do a reinstallation without admin access. I have English language selected in ...
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How to translate an image?

I have some Chinese documents in PDF format, the pages unfortunately are scanned, so the word-by-word translation no longer become an option :( . Yesterday I came across Microsoft Office Document ...
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Is there a Linux software to spell check .po files?

I am translating some po-files and I would like to run a spell checker over them. I have Ubuntu 10.10 and use gtranslator. As far as I know, gtranslator can't spellcheck the whole file. I tried ...
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How to disable the popup of Google translate in chrome while it still translates

It is very annoying. When browsing a website that I know is not in English and I trust Googles translation the popup some times comes and destroys the layout and it's impossible to work with the ...
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Excluding all domains with a specific beginning from Google search results

I’m using Google to check how a word is used in the websites of a particular language, but results from machine-translated pages lead to lots of low quality translations, so I’d really like to exclude ...
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Need to automatic "translate page" process or fix it. In google chrome

I am aware that question come up few times, but my problem is more specific. In my job in necessary to spend 5-6 hours a day to do website search of various company around the globe. I need to ...
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How to translate a WMP playlist back to English?

I'm using WMP on Windows 10 to manage my .MP3 playlists, and a certain album has gotten itself 'stuck' in a Japanese translation. Presumably it did this after I clicked to update the album info. I ...
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How to add online dictionaries like google translate to GoldenDict?

How to add online dictionaries feature (mainly google translator) for GoldenDict Right now a discussed solution is in html with an iframe. Is there a simple translation script/app that read a sting ...
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How to revert "Never translate this site" in Chrome?

I visited a foreign website and I accidentally clicked "Never translate this site". I want to revert this back to the default behavior of Chrome always asking me what to do. How do I do that? Thanks ...
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Translating in Google Chrome

Sometimes Google will offer to translate a page for me but it seems random when it offers. Is there a way I can force this feature to happen on any page (where I specify the language). :)
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Multiple languages in Apple Numbers

I need to reformat a whole bunch of dates from 1/1 to Wednesday 1/1 in the English column and Mercredi 1/1 in the French. But it seems like in Apple Numbers (version 6.2.1) you can only select one ...
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"Click to translate" for .pdf

Is there a way to be able just click a word and get its translation while reading .pdf files? Google Dictionary is very useful plugin for Chrome but works only for web pages. Does something similar ...
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Quickly translate a word from English

I'm always reading English, but I'm a Spanish native speaker (I'm working on my thesis). Sometimes I need to translate a word into Spanish, and what I do now is to open a new tab and go to Google ...
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Is it possible to translate or convert a VBS script to BAT?

I have a visual basic script I found years ago, I would like to know if it can be entirely or at least roughly translated into batch format. The goal is to convert the script to batch format, so that ...
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Replacing straight quotes with curly quotes as a basic setting in Windows?

I'm doing translation work and I have to use curly quotes because the web developers behind the site I'm working for had some bugs with straight quotes that interfered with their work. Now I could of ...
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Why are there different versions of Bing Translate on Excel 2016/2019?

I using Bing Translate built inside Excel. I am using Excel 2019 at the moment but I think this problem happens in other versions too. In some computers, the interface looks like this: In this ...
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Using Microsoft word for translation

I have thousands of pages translated into English. The translations look like this: Word document 1: Ti amo, un soldo, ti amo, in aria, ti amo, se viene testa vuol dire che basta: lasciamoci. ...
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Visual Studio Code - working with two sub-windows but making them not affect one another?

Visual Studio Code (VSCODE to all you coming here from search engines) allows splitting the current working window into two windows: When I type text in one, it appears in the other. I desire that ...
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Google translate client for OS X [closed]

I'm using Translate Client on Windows. This tool instantly get translation of selected text in any application by double press Ctrl What are alternatives for Mac OS X? Good implementation would be as ...
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How can I prevent trailing whitespace being trimmed when importing a file into MemoQ 8.4?

When importing files into the translation tool "MemoQ (8.4)" in the project manager role, I've found that trailing whitespace in the source data, is trimmed. While this is re-added to the source when ...
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How to translate the selected text in Windows using Google translate?

When I select a text in the Android system, it shows an option to translate the selected text using Google translate (my translation pops up). Now, how to use Google translate service in the same way ...
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Integrate Google translation services in Outlook and Office 2010

I like the fact that MS Office 2010 and Outlook 2010 have translation options, but what I would prefer is to use Google's translation services which are a lot better than Microsoft Translation. Is ...
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How to hide everything except the text between the inner square brackets in Notepad++?

I got xml file in which I need to translate text between the inner square brackets. It's a huge file with thousands of inner square brackets with the texts for translation. Is there a way to hide ...
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How to change default language for different source language in Google Chrome's translate function

By default, Google Chrome's embedded translate function will only default to translate webpages to user's webpage setting. Same for the translate option provided via right click manual In the ...
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How can I disable the automatic translation of MS web pages?

When visiting MS Knowledge base articles many are automatically translated (into Dutch). I prefer the original English texts so that I don't have to second guess which Dutch terms the translator (...
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Translating movie subtitles without srt files

I am downloading torrent movies and need to translate subtitles into different languages, but most of the downloads contain no subtitle files (srt. etc), although the movies do have subtitles. Are ...
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Translation software recommendation for offline use?

I am using Babylon for a while and it is pretty fits often my needs. But I am wondering if exists any good alternatives to it. I specified my needs below: Key features Broad dictionary support: ...
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Edit file side by side for translation in notepad++

I have to translate a lot of files in multiple languages. I would like to use notepad++ with "move to the other view" then "Synchronize Vertical Scrolling". The document is written so that lines are ...
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goldendict XML parse error on Wikipedia and Wiktionary

I get this error on goldendict for English Wikipedia and English Wiktionary: Query error: XML parse error: unexpected end of file at 1,1
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Good translation (manually) software [closed]

I'm looking for a good translation software. i do not mean something that does all the translation automatically for me. But rather something that aids me in translating large pieces of text, since ...
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Change default language in the google chrome translator bar

I am italian, so I have Google Chrome in Italian. When I browse the web in languages that I don't know, I find very useful the auto-translation bar of google chrome. The problem is that it ...
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Remove XML node in Notepad++

I have a large XML with the structure below. Now, I want to get rid of the <tuv xml:lang="en-GB"><seg>CONTENT</seg></tuv> nodes, so for each unit only the de-DE part stays (<...
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translate a webpage and declutter at the same time? how?

Translate: google translate, either with bookmarklet or chrome extension declutter: Instapaper text bookmarklet. They used to work together sequentially, but recently Instapaper changed their ...
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Different values in different editors

I opened same document with OpenOffice and with use of Microsoft Word. Document language is english and I use operating system also with english language. MS Word opens the document correctly, but ...
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Real-Time chat translation on mac using either Skype, Adium or iChat

If you're looking for MSN and / or Windows, just go here. I'm looking for Real-Time chat translation tools for Mac, and preferably using Adium, but it could be for Skype, iChat or maybe another ...
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How to tell service open in a new tab instead of windows - OSX Safari

In this article there's the solution I was looking for, however, I would like to open in a new tab instead of a new window, how should be the text? Google translate client for OS X ... on run argv ...
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Translation comparison tools for PO format?

I am using POEdit to modify the localization file of some projects. Unfortunately it seems not able to do comparisons with different versions. Do you now if it does exists a comparison tool for ...
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How to perform automatic translation browsing on Firefox?

Problem: I'm searching for a (miraculous) way to perform automatic translation browsing, according to following requirements. Mandatory requirements: 1. Translate pages automatically after entering ...
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Software to rename files with Japanese or Korean character/letter filenames to their Romanized (Roman/Latin letters) equivalents [closed]

Is there a program (for Windows) that will rename files with Japanese or Korean characters/letters in their filenames to their Romanized (Roman/Latin letters) equivalents (preferably Hepburn ...
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Port translation and websphere application

I have a java application running in Websphere Application Server (WAS) on port 80 (using IBM HttP server, IHS). Now I need port 80 for other purposes on my external ip. I just setup port translation ...
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Language translation tool [closed]

Does anyone know how I can take an entire PDF and translate it from German to English. I understand that is it not going to be perfect but it will be a start. I am looking for one that keeps the ...