Us mono-linguists have no idea whether the machine translation is accurate or not, but there’s a simple way to see if the translation is reasonable. That will get rid of the red squiggly lines.
The top row is the heading and you’ll probably want that at the top of each page. A table column will extend down through two or more pages.Ĭreate a table with two columns and two rows. More than a page and columns don’t work well because columns wrap from bottom to top of each page.įor larger side-by-side text you need a big table instead. Put a column break below the original text so the translation starts at the top of the next column.
There’s two obvious ways to do it in Word – columns or a table.Ī two column format works for short amounts of text, less than a page. This allows comparison between the two texts. What’s missing is a side-by-side option – to show the original and translated text next to each other. You can either Insert the translation (the default) or copy to the clipboard. Choose the language you want and Word will go online and get a translation from Microsoft’s online service.