In Powerpoint you do not have such a dot-file. Instead you have
to turn your macro into an little program (add-in) and then add
(activate) that program to the 'mother' program. Your macro will
then be loaded (available) each time you start powerpoint.
To make your macro an add-in you first save the file with the
macro as a normal powerpoint PPT-file. Then you choose 'save as'
and save (without doing anything else) the PPT-file as an PPA-file.
And viola, you have an add-in.
That add-in you then add through Tools -> Add-in -> Add
as explained above.
Often you also would like a button that runs the macro or you
would like to make the macro auto-run every time you start Powerpoint.
See the following link (read to the bottom, then follow the link
there) for more details.
Open the 2-cols document with Word.
Remove all but the source text column. Unhide it. Save
as plain text.
Repeat steps 1-4 for target file.
Align the two text files.
Of course, the solution can be used for other file formats.
OR
Ted
R. Wozniak's suggestion:
Trans
Suite 2000 Align available FREE at http://www.cypresoft.com
aligns PPT files (and lots of others) and produces alignment files
suitable for importing into DV, Trados and other TM programs.
Once I got used to the keyboard commands and interface, I found
it preferable to DV's alignmentfeature.
There is a macro to change all instances (slides, text boxes,
etc.) in a Powerpoint file to your language. The macro was found
at Microsoft's Support page. It normally works pretty well. Click here to download
a PPT file containing the macro. Edit the macro inserting
your language code in it. The number Déjà Vu uses
as a language code is the same number you should insert. Or, click
here to check your language code.
To edit the macro:
Open the file in Powerpoint and go to Tools > Macro > Macros
and select Language_Change. Press Edit. The language code is in
the last "black" line.
Close the Visual Basic Editor screen, and I would suggest to
save the file as an add-in (.ppa).
To load an add-in: Tools > Add-in > Add New...
If you save it as a normal Powerpoint file, to have access to
the macro, leave the file open while working with the other Powerpoint
files.
The subroutine "Multimerge" is probabyl the most well
written and generally useful routine in this group and might work
for you as written. It calls another routine "MergeStep".
To use it, first select the area that includes the cells to be
merged.
This line: ActiveCell.Replace What:="oF", Replacement:="°F",
MatchCase:=True
can probably be deleted. It was added to replace a superscript
letter 'o' with a degree symbol.
Subroutine "MergeGroup5" works differently from "Multimerge".
It assumes that the area to be merged is 5 columns wide, and has
a variable number of rows. It then does the selection for you,
which might save time. But your text area needs to have an empty
cell in the row after the area.
You put the cursor in the left uppermost cell, and the routine
searches down until it finds an empty cell.
Note that "MergeGroup5" calls "MergeGroupVariable"
with an argument of 4. If your text areas are only one column
wide, replace this with 0.
Sometimes you will find a line break (new paragraph/line) inside
a cell in Excel. The problem is that when exporting your translated
file from DV, this hardbreak will make Excell to insert a new
cell. To solve this problem, replace hardbreaks with a flag (e.g.:
<linebreak>); translate; and replace it back after exporting.
To find and replace in Excell, you can use "Alt+0010"
inside the Find & Replace box. You will not see anything in
Excel's F&R box, but the code is there.