SDL Trados Studio Training for Translators
Training courses designed by translators for translators
The following courses have been specifically designed to help you translate faster, more easily and efficiently. They have been developed in conjunction with our extensive network of SDL Approved Trainers who are themselves translators and work with our products on a day to day basis.
All of our courses can be taken in either a classroom environment or via a live WebEx training session.
SDL Trados Studio 2011 New Features and Concepts
Key topics covered:
- Track changes
- Enhanced review processes
- Handling update projects and mid-project updates more effectively through PerfectMatch
- Enhanced automatic quality assurance and spell check
- Leveraging SDL Trados Studio even further through OpenExchange extensions
- Identifying common localization problems with automated pseudo-translation.
This course is designed to familiarize attendees that are currently using of SDL Trados Studio 2009 with all the new features of SDL Trados Studio 2011.
SDL Trados Studio 2011 – New Features (
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Upgrade from SDL Trados 2007 to SDL Trados Studio 2011
Key topics covered:
- SDL Trados 2007 vs. SDL Trados Studio 2011 - overview
- Upgrading translation memories, termbases, and tag settings files
- AutoSuggest™ dictionary generation
- Translating files in SDL Trados Studio 2011
- Processing legacy files in SDL Trados Studio 2011 (TTX, ITD, bilingual MS Word files)
- Seamless integration of SDL Trados Studio 2011 users into SDL Trados 2007/SDLX 2007 based supply chains.
This course is designed for existing users of SDL Trados 2007 and will teach attendees how to use the new features and functionality of SDL Trados Studio 2011. Attendees will also learn the most efficient ways to upgrade their existing SDL Trados 2007 resources, i.e. upgrading translation memories, termbases, and tag settings files to the new format.
It’s also the first step in understanding how to leverage the full power of SDL Trados Studio 2011 to increase your productivity. The course also shows attendees how to handle scenarios that involve both users of SDL Trados Studio 2011 and user of SDL Trados 2007.
Translators and Project Managers who are upgrading from SDL Trados 2007 to SDL Trados Studio 2011 should attend this course.
SDL Trados Studio 2011 - Upgrading from SDL Trados 2007 ( 123.9 KB)
SDL Trados Studio 2011 Getting Started
Key topics covered:
- Introduction to CAT technologies: what is a translation memory (TM), termbase, AutoSuggest dictionary?
- Overview of the application
- Translating files in SDL Trados Studio making use of the most common features
- Delivering the finished translation
- Creating TMs and termbases using legacy content (e.g. Excel glossaries and already translated documents).
This course is the first step in understanding how to leverage the full power of SDL Trados Studio 2011 to increase your productivity.
At the end of this course attendees will be able to open, translate and review documents.
SDL Trados Studio 2011 - Getting Started ( 106.7 KB)
SDL Trados Studio 2011 Intermediate
Key topics covered:
- Effectively processing multiple files through projects
- Batch tasks, e.g. document pre-translation
- Project statistics and reports
- Advanced editor features
- Automated quality assurance
- Review processes.
This course is for Translators who have already started to work with SDL Trados Studio 2011 and may have already attended the SDL Trados Studio 2011 Getting Started or the Upgrade from SDL Trados 2007 to SDL Trados Studio 2011 course.
SDL Trados Studio 2011 - Intermediate ( 113.4 KB)
SDL Trados Studio 2011 Advanced
Key topics covered:
- Translation memory maintenance – keeping your TM resources lean and efficient
- Localization of XML content
- Customized automatic quality assurance rules
- Enhanced workflows for different file types: Word, PowerPoint, Excel, InDesign
- Identifying common localization problems with automated pseudo-translation.
This course is designed to deepen attendees’ knowledge of SDL Trados Studio 2011 and provide them with strong technical knowledge of the features used as part of their daily tasks including translation memory maintenance, Localization of XML content and enhance workflows for different file types: Word, PowerPoint, Excel, InDesign.
It is also for translators who have already attended either the SDL Trados Studio 2011 Getting Started or Upgrade course as well as the Intermediate course.
SDL Trados Studio 2011 - Advanced ( 114.3 KB)
SDL MultiTerm
Key topics covered:
- Introduction to basic terminology concepts
- Overview of the application
- Performing look up operations in a termbase
- Defining filters
- Creating termbases from scratch
- Converting existing glossaries in MS Excel format for use in SDL MultiTerm
- Adding entries to the termbase
- Creating input models
- Leveraging legacy documents to fill your termbase using terminology extraction
- Accessing termbases from SDL Trados Studio
- Exporting termbase content to tables and printable dictionaries
- Overview of SDL MultiTerm Online.
SDL MultiTerm Desktop is the desktop terminology management tool from SDL. This course is designed to give Translators and project managers a good understanding of the features and functionality within SDL MultiTerm to manage clients’ terminology and how its power can be enhanced in the translation and project management environment through integration with SDL Trados Studio.
