Quick Start Tutorial (MS PowerPoint)

This brief tutorial will help you get up and running with Felix for translating documents in Microsoft® PowerPoint.

  1. Open the document you want to translate in PowerPoint.

    Open your document in MS PowerPoint

  2. From the Felix menu, select "Look up Next", or click the right arrow button on the Felix toolbar.
    Felix menu lookup item
    Menu selection
    Felix toolbar lookup button
    Toolbar button

  3. This will select the first sentence, and look it up in Felix.

    The first sentence is looked up in PowerPoint

    Felix will start automatically; arrange the PowerPoint, memory, and glossary windows to your liking (I prefer making the glossary window long to the side, so I can see lots of glossary matches at once).

    Arrange the PowerPoint, memory, and glossary windows

    Since you won't already have a translation memory loaded, it should show that you have no matches.

    No matches are shown for the first sentence you look up.
    First sentence looked up in Felix

  4. Translate the sentence, overwriting the original.

    After you translate it, put the cursor at the end of the sentence, and from the Felix menu, select "Set" or click the up arrow button on the Felix toolbar.

    Felix menu set item
    Menu selection
    Felix toolbar set button
    Toolbar button

  5. This will register the translation for the current sentence ("query") in the Felix window.

    The first translation is set in PowerPoint
    First translation is set

    The translation is shown in the Felix menu window
    Shown in Felix window

  6. Again select "Look up Next" or click the right arrow to repeat this process.
  7. Translate the next sentence, using the same procedure as in steps 4 and 5, above.

    The translation is added in the Felix menu window
    The second translation is registered

  8. When you translate the last text box on a slide and then click the right arrow or select "Look up Next" from the menu, a dialog box will appear and ask whether you'd like to proceed to the next slide, or go back to the top of the current slide.

    The End of Slide Reached dialog box
    The End of Slide Reached dialog box appears

    If you select Next slide, the first sentence on the next slide will be looked up. Select the "Don't ask me again" checkbox if you want to make this choice automatically from now on.

  9. If you selected "Next slide," the first sentence on the next slide is looked up.

    The first sentence in the second slide is looked up
    First sentence in second slide is looked up

    Carry on translating the document.

You can download the PowerPoint file used for this tutorial.

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