Project - Export

The Export page opens when you export one or more documents in memoQweb.

How to get here

  1. Log in to memoQweb as an administrator or a project manager.

  2. On the Active projects list, in a project's row, click the Export  button.

    The Export page opens.

OR

  1. Log in to memoQweb as an administrator or a project manager.

  2. On the Active projects list, click a project.

  3. At the top of the screen, click the Translations tab.

  4. In the document list, check the checkboxes of one or more documents.

  5. Above the list, click the Export link. The Export page opens.

What can you do?

Choose an export format

In the File type section, choose a format. If you choose the original format (Translated document) or plain XLIFF, memoQweb saves the document in a ZIP file. Else, the Settings section opens.

Choose settings for exporting MQXLIFF files

  • Include data needed for export and preview saves data needed for exporting and previewing the translated document.
  • Include current and previous versions saves current and previous versions of the document.
  • Save a compressed file (.mqxlz) saves your documents as a zipped .mqxlz file.

Choose settings for exporting table RTF files

  • Export comments: Check this to create an extra column in the table. It will contain the comments from the document. This option is checked by default.

  • Export segment status: Check this to add an extra column that shows the segment status (both the color and the match rate). This option is checked by default.

  • Two target columns in table: Check this to export the target column twice. Usually, both target columns contain the translation. In such a case, the reviewer should leave the first target column and modify only the second one.

    If you want to add an empty second target column, check the Leave second target column empty check box. memoQ adds another column named Comments to your file.

    RTF table exported and opened in Word. At the top of the table are the file's name and information not to change segment ID or source text. Below there are 6 columns: ID, source language (English), target language (Hungarian), a second column with the target language (Hungarian), Comments, and Status.

  • Format tags with the "mqInternal" style: In the exported file, the characters in formatting tags will be formatted with the mqInternal style. For memoQ, importing or updating documents with this style is easier, so make sure this check box stays checked.
  • Export the full text of inline tags: memoQ exports every attribute in inline tags. Don't use this option, unless you absolutely need to. This makes the document extremely difficult to read in Word.

  • Export all selected documents in a single RTF file: Check this check box to export several documents, and save them in a single RTF file. Exported table has multiple headers, so that you can identify each memoQ document.

    RTF table exported and opened in Word. At the top of the table is the header with the file's name and information to not to change the segment ID or source text. Below are 5 columns: ID, source language (English), target language (Hungarian), Comments, and Status. Under the first header, there's a second header and 5 columns for the second document exported in this file.

  • Include locked segments in export: Check this check box if you don't want to include locked segments in your RTF file. The reviewer won't be able to accidentally change the text that should not be changed, but it's difficult to review text if you can't see the whole of it. memoQ exports locked segments by default.

Be careful when editing your document: The RTF file contains identifiers (long numbers) for each document and segment. The document ID appears below the document title. The segment IDs appear next to the segment numbers in a font size of 1 point (unreadable). These identifiers must not be changed or deleted in Word because memoQ won't be able to update the project from the RTF file without them.

If Track changes is turned on: Tracked changes in the document are exported to the RTF file as proper tracked changes (both from target and source text). They will appear in Microsoft Word as tracked changes. This works for every source document format, even if the final export format can't handle tracked changes.tracked-changes-in-word