Wordfast Pro 5 - why is Live Preview not available?
Thread poster: Comunican
Comunican
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Jan 25, 2019

I'm trying out Wordfast Pro 5.8 and am unable to activate the Preview > Live Preview option so that I can see the finished document as I go along. It is greyed out and inactive. Does anyone know why please?
Many thanks


 
Samuel Murray
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Which file format? Jan 25, 2019

Comunican wrote:
I'm trying out Wordfast Pro 5.8 and am unable to activate the Preview > Live Preview option so that I can see the finished document as I go along. It is greyed out and inactive.


According to this web page, Live Preview only works with MS Word and MS Powerpoint files. What kind of a file are you translating?



[Edited at 2019-01-25 18:05 GMT]


 
Comunican
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It's a txml file Jan 25, 2019

Samuel Murray wrote:

According to this web page, Live Preview only works with MS Word and MS Powerpoint files. What kind of a file are you translating?

[Edited at 2019-01-25 18:05 GMT]


Thanks Samuel, that would make perfect sense since it is a TXML file. Of course. I hadn't thought of that.... And I have just tried a normal Word file and Preview works fine. I guess I shouldn't have started my trial with a non-standard file! But so far, aside from these teething troubles, I'm pretty impressed by Wordfast Pro 5.8.
Thank you for your help


[Edited at 2019-01-26 11:13 GMT]


 


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