Author Archives: Emma Goldsmith

Endometriosis: disease, disorder or condition?

Posted on 28 January 2021 by Emma Goldsmith

Last week a colleague asked the Twittersphere whether endometriosis is a disease, disorder or condition. Always keen to accept a challenge, I went off to investigate. Join me on my journey down the rabbit hole!

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SDL Trados Live

Posted on 17 August 2020 by Emma Goldsmith

Continuing from last week’s blog post about the new Studio 2021, here’s a post all about SDL Trados Live (Essential edition), a system for translating files in your browser that comes bundled as a 12-month package with your perpetual Studio … Continue reading →

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SDL Trados Studio 2021: Minor improvements and a game changer

Posted on 12 August 2020 by Emma Goldsmith

SDL Trados Studio 2021 has arrived! As a beta team member, I’ve spent almost three months testing new features, catching bugs and suggesting improvements. Here’s my low-down on the new SDL Trados Studio 2021.

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Photo highlights of my METM19 experience

Posted on 18 October 2019 by Emma Goldsmith

Here’s my review of METM19, the 15th Mediterranean Editors & Translators Meeting, held 26-28 September in Split, Croatia. Attendees chose which workshops and talks to attend and which social activities to take part in. We made some choices months in … Continue reading →

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Switching from science to translation?

Posted on 6 September 2019 by Emma Goldsmith

I often receive emails from aspiring translators who are switching from a career in the fields of science or healthcare and are seeking advice from someone with the same language combination who made a similar change, albeit several decades ago. … Continue reading →

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Counting and extracting track changes in Word

Posted on 20 August 2019 by Emma Goldsmith

Two of my favourite Word macros are counting words inserted with track changes and extracting those words to translate them in SDL Trados Studio (or other CAT tool). I mentioned the first macro in a blog post seven years ago … Continue reading →

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BaccS joins forces with SDL

Posted on 3 June 2019 by Emma Goldsmith

How to switch from BaccS version 4 to the newly licensed BaccS version 5, now owned by SDL. Continue reading →

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Handling highlighted Excel cells in Studio

Posted on 15 May 2019 by Emma Goldsmith

How to filter colour-filled cells and use AutoHotkey to save a few thousand clicks in a questionnaire Continue reading →

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MET workshop day in Pisa

Posted on 16 April 2019 by Emma Goldsmith

News of CPD for translators and editors in Pisa, Italy, on 8 June Continue reading →

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Three terms in clinical trial documentation

Posted on 4 March 2019 by Emma Goldsmith

Three terms unravelled and a shout-out to the Cosnautas clinical trials dictionary. Continue reading →

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