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Configuring settings for the Language Weaver add-in for Microsoft Office

In the various Microsoft Office products, you can configure various add-in settings. Some settings are applied across all Office products to which you have added add-ins; others apply to the current Office product only.

Procedure

  1. Open one of the Office products to which you added your Microsoft Office add-in.
  2. Depending on the application you have open, do one of the following:
    • For Word, Excel, PowerPoint, select the TRANSLATE tab.
    • For Outlook, open the email you want to translate in a separate tab/window and select the TRANSLATE tab.
  3. In the Language Weaver group:
    • Select Log in, if you are accessing the application for the first time. Select the Sign in tab and choose whether you want to sign in with:
      • Language Weaver Edge User and Password and then fill in the fields with your Language Weaver Edge credentials :
        • Server: the URL used to access the Language Weaver Edge Server API, with the following format: https://server .
        • Port: the port where the Language Weaver Edge API is published. The default value is 8001, unless it was configured differently, based on customer requirements.
        • User (username) and Password.
        Select Log in.
      • API Key and then fill in the fields with your Language Weaver Edge credentials: Server, Port and API Key. Select Log in.
      • Single Sign-On
    • Select Add-in Options, if you have previously accessed the application.
  4. Select the Settings tab:
    • By default, a keyboard shortcut is enabled for you to quickly enable translation. Clear the option Enable translation keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+Shift+T) if you already use this keyboard shortcut for some other purpose, or if you want to disable the shortcut altogether (for all Office products).
    • If your Office products are in a different language than English, select that language from the Display Language dropdown. Both the current dialog and the controls in the ribbon toolbar, in this Office product and in other Office products, will be displayed in the language you select.
  5. Select the tab with settings for this specific Office product:
    • Word Options if you are in Word
    • Excel Options if you are in Excel
    • PowerPoint Options if you are in PowerPoint
    • Outlook Options if you are in Outlook
  6. In Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Outlook, select how you would like the translation of a selection to work:
    • Select Replace the selected text with the translation to lose your original text.
    • Select Paste the translation after the selected text to see your original text alongside its translation.
  7. In Word, PowerPoint and Excel, select how you would like the translation of an entire document to work:
    • Select Replace the whole document with the translation to lose your original document.
    • Select Open a new document for the translation to create a separate document for your translation, and select the View side-by-side option to see your original document alongside its translation.
  8. Close your Office product.