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"Compatibility with other versions" by Martine Filiptchenko "TTX Files in SDL Trados Studio 2009" by Barbara Rhoton

To satisfy agency demands for bilingual files that are compatible with pre-Studio translation memories, add the capability to save the bilingual files generated in Studio from Word documents in TTX format.

At present, there are only two options for providing bilingual TTX files and neither is optimal:

1. Converting Word files into TTX format prior to translation in Studio. The problem with this is that it disables the tag-free environment with real-time previews.

2. Continue working in the Word-Workbench environment, with Studio reserved for files originating in non-Word applications. Besides the planned phase-out of Workbench in 2010 that will eliminate this option, it also necessitates maintaining translation memories in duplicate—both in the legacy and Studio format—and performing regular export-import operations to keep the contents of TM pairs identical.