Microsoft Word documents (DOC and RTF)

Use this dialog to control how memoQ imports Microsoft Word (DOC and RTF) documents.

MemoQ doc rtf import settings dialog Microsoft Word documents (DOC and RTF)

Invoking

In the Translations pane of Project home, click Add document as… below the document list, and in the Open dialog, locate and select a Microsoft Word file (with the .doc, .dot, or the .rtf extension).

Options

Select import type area:

· Import as RTF radio button: When this is selected, memoQ instructs Word to save the document in a Rich Text Format (RTF) file first, and then imports it. This option is available only if Microsoft Office Word 2007 is installed on your computer.
· Import as DOCX radio button: When this is selected, memoQ instructs Word to save the document in a Microsoft Office Word 2007 (DOCX) file first, and then imports it. This option is available only if Microsoft Office Word 2007 is installed on your computer.

Important: If you select Import as DOCX, the options in the dialog change into the DOCX options. For a description of DOCX options, see the Microsoft Word 2007 (DOCX) import settings topic.

The following description corresponds to the Import as RTF setting.

General import options area:

· Import annotations: Check this check box to import the texts of annotations from the document.
· Import footnotes: This check box is checked by default. Uncheck this check box to ignore processing footnotes and endnotes during translation. Footnotes are inserted wherever they appear in the text.
· Import Word index entries: This check box is checked by default. Uncheck this check box to ignore translating index entries.
· Import hidden text: This check box is unchecked by default. Check this check box to include all hidden text in the import.
· Save RTF files with Word: If you check this check box, memoQ will instruct Word to save all Rich Text Format (RTF) files again. This is useful when you receive a Rich Text Format file coming from a third-party tool, and you want to ensure proper Word-compatible export of your document.

Excluded styles area:

Here you can specify both external and internal styles that do not appear in the translation grid. External text will behave as non-movable structural elements while internal text as movable inline tags.

· Excluded styles text box: Enter the name of a style you want to specify as external or internal.
· External: Check this check box to specify the style entered in the style-entry field as external. Uncheck this check box to specify the style as internal.
· Add style: Click this button to add the style entered in the style-entry field to the list of excluded styles.
· Remove style: Click this button to remove the selected style from the list of excluded styles.

Note: If you import a DOC or an RTF document without invoking this dialog, the default options (shown on the screenshot above) are used.

Note: If you import a DOC or an RTF document with track changes, memoQ will import the document as if all the changes were accepted.

Microsoft Word documents (DOC and RTF)