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I'm a beginner and I'm translating English file into Japanese.

Sourse file is a pdf file.

I converted it to ms word 2010.

I made a project English to Japanese from the docx file.

There are many tags like

in the left pane (English sourse)

But when I preview Japanese MS word, Japanese characters are pretty big and it didn't show fully.

For example, Arigato -> Ariga (they are Japanese letters)

So I want to make their font size smaller.

(Question 1)

There are <cf size=7></cf> in the left pane (English sourse), I tried to copy and edit them to <cf size=6></cf>.

But I didn't know how I can edit the tag.

Can I edit the tags?

(Question 2)

Or, if I could extend text box size of MS word, I may not have to make letters smaller.

But I don't know if I can change the MS word file's attribute like text box position, text box size, colour and so on.

Are there any way to edit the object layout, object size, attribute of objects and so on?

Paul Filkin · Answer

Hi Junji Mori 
 
You cannot change the attributes in Studio. The best approach is to clean up the DOCX you converted and then translate it. You'd probably have to clean up the target file anyway so you might as well do this at the start and make the translation easier. 
 
There some nice tools for this, for example: 
 
 appstore.sdl.com/.../

Paul Filkin · Answer

Junji Mori 
 Junji Mori said: By the way, when i translate English pdf file to Japanese which has a lot of charts, which way do you recommend? English source is (1) pdf (2) docx converted from pdf by MS Word The main problem is Japanese is run over the text boxes and so on. 
 I think you really need to to do a good job of the conversion and make sure the DOCX is a proper, and clean table/chart, before you translate the DOCX (not the PDF). Maybe even replace the converted charts with clean images in the DOCX that you created from the original PDF. 
 PDF conversion is sometimes so complex that recreating the file in a more translatable format is the best way to go.

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