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Gnd_Teknoloji
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Jan 26, 2022

A Translation Mistake on functions

Hello,   I use Office 2016 pro plus, I use in English normally, but for work sake I must use it in Turkish.    Currently, I found translation mistake on two functions.   IMSUM and IMSUB   The...
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Stafford Quaid's avatar
Stafford Quaid
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Jan 26, 2022

Hi Gnd_Teknoloji 

Thanks for reporting this.

Could you please confirm the Turkish Excel version & build number you are using?

You can find that out by going to File | Account | About Excel

Many thanks!

Staff

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    Gnd_Teknoloji
    Copper Contributor
    Jan 26, 2022
    I will when I got to work.

    I can tell you the version of Excel in the morning(GMT-3), when I go to work; albeit, I found this is a problem since Excel 2007.

    So, this is not a new problem.

    Thanks for the reply!
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        JoeUser2004
        Bronze Contributor
        Jan 26, 2022

        SergeiBaklan  wrote: ``is it correct translation here Translator • Excel-Translator ?``

         

        Good find (the link)!

         

        I think the better comparison is:  IMSUB translates into SANTOPLA.  And according to Google Translate, topla translates into gather; and toplam translates into total.  They do indeed sound more like "sum" than "sub", IMHO.

         

        (I cannot find a reasonable translation for ÇIKAR.  Perhaps Gnd_Teknoloji  can provide a relevant translation.)

         

        I think the point that Gnd_Teknoloji  makes is not that he cannot use SANÇIKAR for IMSUM and SANTOPLA for IMSUB, but that those translations do not make sense to a Turkish speaker any more than COMPLEXE.DIFFERENCE for IMSUM and COMPLEXE.SOMME for IMSUB (purposely backwards) would make sense to a French speaker.  (Fortunately, MSFT got the French translations right.)

         

        .... If an actual Excel file demonstrates that the  Excel Translator  is indeed correct.  (I'm sure it will, given Gnd_Teknoloji's complaint.)

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