The configuration box has five main tabs - "Translation Memory", "Tools", "Quality Check", "Setup" and "?" (question mark). Click on the "f" button to start the configuration. A TM is basically a special word list consisting of source and target text phrases. The first thing to do is to create a translation memory (TM). The registration code will be mailed to you in a day or two.
Go back to the WordFast web site, click on the "Registration" link and complete the form.
#WORDFAST FREE TM SERIAL#
That is where you'll find your serial code. Click on it and then on the little question mark on the far right. The last button on this toolbar looks like an "f". To register, click on the blue, black and green WordFast button to open the WordFast toolbar. The author then mails you a registration code, which you have to type in next to the serial code. When you register, the macro automatically generates a serial code, which you have to fill in on the web site. WordFast currently costs EUR 170, but the unregistered version can translate up to 256 sentences at a time - definitely enough for a test run or two. Once WordFast has been installed, you can set your macro security back to "high". In my version all I had to do was press Ctrl+F2 and it installed itself. Now open the macro file wordfast.dot in Word and follow the instructions. Make sure that MS Word's macro security is set to "low". The macro is called wordfast.dot and the guide wordfast.doc. The WordFast macro and user's guide can both be downloaded from.
#WORDFAST FREE TM HOW TO#
Let's have a look at how to download and install WordFast and with a minimum of effort set it up for a test run. The best way to find out whether WordFast will meet your needs is to install an unregistered copy and to do a few test translations. WordFast was until recently available free of charge, but now costs EUR 170. WordFast is an affordable macro that runs within MS Word and it undertakes a series of convenient machine-assisted translation functions.
If you haven't yet emptied your wallet to buy Trados of Déjà Vu yet, why not try the macroprogram WordFast. The original article was written in Afrikaans, and this translation was done by the editor of the Muratho.
This short article was written for a special Muratho issue on CAT/MAT, although in the end the promised article about Trados (not by me) was never published. Samuel Murray, Translator - English into Afrikaans | Article index INTRODUCTION TO WORDFAST Introduction to WordFast - Personal pages of Samuel Murray, translator in Afrikaans and English
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