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    Translate English to French without using Google Translate

    Hello

    I am working on an excel document and I need to be able to translate between English and French. Because the words don't translate very well on Google, I need to create my own translations list.

    Initially I just created two master tabs in my document entitled English and the other French. I just inserted a basic if statement to my working tabs " =IF(A1="English", English!A3,French!A3)". This was a great way to replace all of the headings with either French or English. Now that the document is growing and the tabs are not all the same this is no longer a viable option. I was hoping to find a way to create a list of English and French words and depending on which language is selected, the words would be replaced.

    This is my first post ever so please bear with me if this needs more details.

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    Re: Translate English to French without using Google Translate

    Can you attach a copy of your file and explain in detail what you want to do referring to specific cells, rows, columns and sheets?
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    Re: Translate English to French without using Google Translate

    Wouldn't MSWord be a better alternative?

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    Re: Translate English to French without using Google Translate

    Hi Mumps and Pepe Le Mokko,

    I work in budgets so I have various headings that need to be translated however the bulk of my document is calculations. I agree if it were just writing ms word would be better however, I need all my formulas. I used to work with SharePoint and they had a functionality to allow you to create a translations list and then click the preferred language. Was hoping for something similar here.

    Mumps, I am working to create a similar document that I can post, unfortunately because of the nature of my work I cannot post my doc. Basically, I just have a bunch of headings (Region name, Total, Period, etc.) and I need the heading names to pivot between French and English depending on the user. In my original document, there were 30 tabs that had the exact same headings. Because they all had the same look, wherever there was a title I inserted the IF statement above. Now that I've added in more things, some regions have a different look.

    I was thinking I could do something like : if French is clicked, it would look up the current word and then input the French equivalent. Does this make sense?

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    Re: Translate English to French without using Google Translate

    I was thinking I could do something like : if French is clicked, it would look up the current word and then input the French equivalent. Does this make sense?
    That sounds like a good approach to me. Is there a specific part of implementing something like this that you have trouble with? I would expect to try something like:
    1) Have a cell with a dropdown/data validation that accepts either French or English.
    2) Have a lookup table with the different words. (Being anglocentric, I would put the English word as the lookup value, but there's no reason it could not be the other way around):
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    3) A lookup function like =VLOOKUP(english word,lookup table,IF(language dropdown="French",2,1),False)

    Can you make something like that work for you?
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    Thanks MrShorty!

    That works well with most cells however, with some of the new tabs I have tables. I don't think I can insert a formula for a table heading, can you think of a way around this?

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    Re: Translate English to French without using Google Translate

    I never work with tables, so I don't know how to really work with them.

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