6 reasons to upgrade to memoQ 2014

Over the next month we will be introducing you to some of the functionality within memoQ 2014.
 
There are many reasons why you might want to switch to memoQ or have already done this. Here are six reasons why you might want to use memoQ 2014. If you want to know more,  get in touch. 

Project Templates

Whether you are a translator or a project manager you are likely to be creating projects which are similar to each other. You probably use the same naming convention for your LiveDocs corpus, your TMs and your termbases. You may also perform the same workflow steps each time you create a project. 
 

Project Templates in memoQ 2014 automates project creation. 
 
If you usually created a new TM which included the client and project name this will also be created automatically. memoQ 2014 can even automatically add other TMs for that customer. It can also do this for other resources such as LiveDocs or Termbases. You can also assign workflow steps at particular points in the project. For example memoQ could always run x-translate when files are updated.

A project manager can easily spend 45 minutes creating a project, assigning resources, creating and adding TMs, LiveDocs corpus and termbases and doing all the other things they need to do to create a project. With memoQ 2014 they do that once, create a template and then it takes them a few minutes to add files and give the project a name.
 
Language Terminal
Language Terminal is a portal for language workers. It is a tool independent platform and can be used by translators to advertise their services and others to search for them. It also provides an InDesign to XLIFF filter and can be used to archive and retrieve memoQ projects. 

 

Image localization

 

Managing images can be a major headache. They are often embedded within a file and the customer wants you to extract them, localize them and then put them back in the file. All of this is time consuming and prone to errors. memoQ 2014 makes all of this much easier to do. It can extract the images embedded in the file. You can review the images, add a transcription and instructions for the translator, then export all the images and send them for localization. When that is finished you can re-import them into the project and then export the translated document with translated images.
 
Tag management 
 

This functionality has been on the wish list of a number of our translators for some time. They need to be able to manage Tags. Sometimes they want to remove them from a segment a section or a whole document. They want to edit the tag without having to fiddle about the source HTML. They want to insert tags which they previously removed and want to put in the same order as they are in the source segment. memoQ 2014 allows all of this. Tags are managed through the format menu and the toolbar.

Translation Document Tab
 

Need I say more?

Kilgray Support

There used to be a TV ad for Carlsberg beer where a phone was ringing in a large office building. The ringing was tracked to an obviously abandoned room. When the person answered the phone it was a wrong number. They then left the room and we could see the nameplate on the door –  “Carlsberg Customer Complaints Department”. 
 
It would be nice if the same was true for memoQ but it’s not. However, when you do have a problem, our support team are there and get back to you very quickly.