Wordfast Classic

Wordfast Classic (WFC) is a CAT tool designed as a Microsoft Word™ add-on. Its lightweight, flexible structure makes it easy to install and use. It is designed to meet the specific needs of the individual translator and translation workgroups that primarily use Microsoft Word to translate. Wordfast Classic maintains compatibility with Trados and most CAT tools. Download the product brief!

Getting Started

Wordfast Training Courses
Live Online Training Sessions Wordfast Classic Video Tutorials
Wordfast YouTube Channel

• Download the Latest Version of Wordfast Classic
• How to install Wordfast Classic
  • Installing WFC (MS Word 2000, XP & 2003 for Windows)
  • Installing WFC (MS Word 2007 for Windows)
  • Installing WFC (MS Word 2010 for Windows)
  • Installing WFC (MS Word 2013 for Windows)
  • Installing WFC (MS Word 2011 for Mac)
• How to license Wordfast Classic
• Creating Wordfast Translation Memory
• Translation with Wordfast Classic
• Creating & Using Wordfast Glossaries
• Wordfast User Logos
• Advice: Never save changes to wordfast.dot
• Wordfast Classic User Manual

Function Overview

• Background Translation Memory (BTM)
• Clean-up of Segmented Files
• Excel & PowerPoint Translation
• Pandora's Box (PB) Commands
• Machine Translation
• AutoComplete
• Wordfast Classic Setup window
• Fuzzy Terminology Recognition

Tips & Tricks

• New Toolbars of Wordfast Classic
• Using Excel or Word Glossaries
• Using External Dictionaries
• Table of Contents Translation

Shortcuts

• Wordfast Classic Main Shortcuts
• Keyboard shortcuts on Macs
• Shortcut Troubleshooting

Interchangeability

• Exchanging TMX TMs with Non-Wordfast Users
• Using Excel or Word Glossaries
• Bilingual Unclean DOC from a TXML
• Translating WFC Documents in WFP

TM Sharing

• WF Classic LAN Sharing
• Using a WFA TM in WFC
• Wordfast Server

Troubleshooting

• How to license Wordfast Classic
• WFC has got disabled in Word, what to do if WFC disappears from Word because Word blocks WFC as a disabled item
• Troubleshooting Classic on Macs
• User Account Control (UAC), a feature in Windows (Vista and newer) that can cause troubles with Classic
• Office 2010 Click-to-Run, an installation form of Office 2010 that does not support Classic properly
• TXT TM won't open (TM exported from Trados)
• Select TM button won't work (error message 4608 Value out of range or Error opening the Open File dialog box)
• Word tends to crash when you translate or when you close Word (and you are using a laptop equipped with bluetooth)
• Wordfast Classic fails to start under Word 2011 for Mac - usual error messages: Compile error in hidden module: M0 or Could not open macro storage.
• Missing Wordfast Toolbar
• "... should be closed" error message in Wordfast Classic when opening the Setup dialogue.
• Cleanup fails to remove all the target text, and the document still has some delimiters and target segments after running the Cleanup feature of Wordfast Classic.