Using CSV and your Spreadsheet to edit translations

A CSV file is one in which each record or cell is seperated by a comma (or
another character) and each record or line is seperated by a newline.

When using CSV files generated by po2csv you will find the first column
contains the localition information from the PO file.  This is sometimes
usefull for working out what the message is used for. The second column contain
the original or English while the third column is where you add your
translations.

Notes

Preserve names.  Do not change the case of the filename.
Return files in a ZIP archive in the same order and directory structure.

Working best with your spreadsheet

Initialy the first column will stretch across the page as it contains a large
amount of data, but you cannot see or work with this data.  Therefore do the
following:

1) Adjust the column width to - 5" works well as you can then see both the
original and translation clearly.

2) Adjust the cell formating for the first column to allow the insertion of
automatic line breaks (this will cause the data to wrap within the column and
make it all readable) also allow for automatic hyphenation which will then
hyphenate long words.  The result of this step is that you can now read all
data in column one, the rows will become larger to accomodate this information.

Specific instructions

Each Spreadsheet application will achive the above in a slightly different
way.  Here are specific instructions.

* OpenOffice.org
1) Right click on the header of Column A.  Select "Column Width". Type in a
value in the "Width" field.
2) Right click on the header of Column A.  Select "Format Cells...", then
select the "Alignment" tab.  Now under Prperties enable "Automatic line break"
and "Hyphenation active".

* Excel
TODO