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Creation of TB from glossary

Marchitan Irina, Senior lecturer, MA

Dep.Translation, Interpreting and Applied Linguistics

Creation of terminological glossary in

MS Excel
There

are 2 options:
1. Create a table in MS Word with
several columns:
1) term in English
2) definition in English
3) equivalent term in Romanian/Russian
4) definition in Romanian/Russian
5) notes

Creation of terminological glossary in

MS Excel
You

can use more columns with

terms in other languages for
creating multilingual Term Base.
The second option is to create a
table directly in MS Excel.

If the original table was created using

MS Word:
Copy

the table to MS Excel book

using Select all Copy &
Paste in cell 2.

Ctrl+A,

Ctrl+C,

Ctrl+V

 Give

the headings to the columns (in

cells 1, 1, 1):
1) TermEng cell A 1
2) DefinitionEng cell B 1
3) TermRus/Rom - cell C 1
4) DefinitionRus/Rom - cell D 1
5) Notes
Save MS Excel table in MS Excel 972003 format .

Conversion of MS Excel table

using MultiTerm Convert

component

- Create folder in Disk D /

Terminological Base.

- Launch MultiTerm Convert

component.

Select New conversion session and

press Next.

In this window select the option

Microsoft Excel format.

Select MS Excel table with terms using

Browse button on the right from the button
Input file, the other field are filled in
automatically.

Select Index field and identify SL.

Repeat the procedure for TL.

For column 2 (DefinitionEng) select option

Descriptive field, select Text or other
options.

 For

column 4 (DefinitionRom)
also select option Descriptive
field.
For column Notes you can select
option Descriptive field or
Multimedia.
Multimedia option allows you to
add photos or audio file to the
terminological record.

Use Add button to add descriptive fields to

the TB structure (select Term under
TermEng and press Add).

Use the same procedure to add Notes

field

This is the last window where you can return

back and modify settings in case you made
any mistakes.

The conversion process is launched

Importing converted MS Excel

table in Multiterm
Launch
In

MultiTerm.

Termbase menu select

Create termbase or press
shortcut Ctrl+Alt+T.

Select folder for TB - MultiTerm

Bases and press Open.

Give name to it and

press Save

Termbase Wizard is launched.

Tick Load an existing termbase

definition file and press Browse. Select
converted Excel file (.xdt) and open it using
Open.

 Create

a new termbase definition from

scratch select this option to create a
completely new termbase definition,
specifying termbase fields and settings that
suit your requirements.
Use a predefined termbase template
MultiTerm iX ships with two predefined
termbase templates. Each template contains
a complete range of termbase fields and
settings which can be used as the basis for a
new termbase definition. You can use these
templates as they are or you can customise
them to suit your own requirements.

 Load

an existing termbase
definition file select this option to
load an existing termbase definition
file from your hard disk, such as the
one that was created during the
process of conversion by Multiterm
Convert.

Write the name of TB in the field

Name.

 As

a result you have a new TB

but it is empty and does not
contain terms.

You

have to import the terms into

the created TB.

Double-click menu Catalogue.

Open
Import
menu

Open Import menu (right-click) and

select Process.

Select the file you wish to import

Using Browse select the file with terms

to be imported to the new TB (.mtf)
and press Open.

Save the file named excluded terms. It

will contain terms excluded from
import process due to different
mistakes.

As a result you have TB with terms

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