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Revised text translated at low cost

As the result of changes that may occur in your company, you may have to make some alterations to the appearance and presentation of your products or services. That seems simple enough, especially when you have the previous documents. All you need to do is apply those changes to the materials that represent your business.

To make it even easier, particularly if those contents need to be translated into different languages, here are some tips that could help to get your revised text translated at low cost.

1. Change only what is needed.
2. Avoid making revisions for cosmetic and stylistic reasons. Here are some examples:
   1. Changing active/passive voice:
      • Frank made the coffee for us.
      • The coffee was made for us by Frank.
   2. Changing capitalisation and punctuation:
      • IMPORTANT: read and understand the owner’s manual.
      • Important – read and understand the owner’s manual.
3. In certain situations, some revisions can have the new information in separate sections, which will give you the opportunity to send the document destined for translation in a separate file.

Most of the time people are surprised when they find out that the translation of a simple style revised content costs more than they were expecting. If you remember our tips, you will get revised text translated at low cost.