Ignore [all this stuff] in Trados

I cannot for the life of me remember where I found this guide to ignore [everything in between here]. Very helpful when using Trados while translating games, to make sure those pesky variables do not get caught up in the fuzzy CAT logic.

1. Open the document (obviously) and make sure the Trados macros are activated.
2. Press Alt+F8 to bring up the Macros dialog and select “sAddTagStyles” from the list.
3. Run that macro.
4. Press Ctrl+H to display the Find&Replace dialog.
5. In the “Find what” field, enter [*] (that’s Backslash-Opening Bracket-Asterisk-Backslash-Closing Bracket)
6. Click on the “Replace with” field and enter ^& (Circumflex-Ampersand). Alternatively, you can select, ah, heck, dunno how it’s called in English Word versions (“Contents of the Find what box”?), but you’re prolly using a German one anyway – it’s labeled “Suchen nach Text” or “Suchtext” – from the “Special” menu in that dialog.
7. Check the “Pattern Matching”/”Wildcards” (Platzhalterzeichen verwenden) option.
8. Click on “Format”->”Style…” (Formatvorlage…)
9. Select “tw4WinExternal” from the list and click “OK”.
10. If you now click “Replace all”, every occurrence of brackets with text in between will be in gray color and Trados should skip them. Be careful though, if you have square brackets in the text flow itself that you do need to edit/translate, you will not be able to access these anymore using Trados.

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