Trados Studio: Export for Bilingual Review with a right-to-left target language creates a file with reversed order for numbers or other words
000019652|3/14/2024 1:16 PM
Scope/Environment
Trados Studio
Symptoms/Context
You're exporting a file with a right-to-left (RTL) target language (Arabic, Hebrew, etc.) for bilingual review. When checking the file in Microsoft Word you see that some words are not in the expected place.
Resolution
This can be addressed in Microsoft Word by changing the run of the RTL column:
Add LTR run and RTL run buttons to the quick access toolbar in Word
Select the target language column
Click RTL run
The text should show in the correct order now.
Root Cause
This is a defect in Studio reported with ID CRQ-8217.