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With a simple command and a few clicks, the user can quickly translate cells and columns, making it easy to work with a large data set without having to manually copy and paste the content into an external service. The only requirement is that source and target languages be supported by the Google translation platform. Here's how to use the browser function.
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Step 1. Open Google Sheets in browser preferably in Google Chrome. Since you want to translate from Portuguese to English, create a column with all the terms you want to translate, one in each cell. At the top of the column, indicate Portugus as the original language. You can also open a previously created spreadsheet in Excel;
Create a column with the terms to be translated Foto: Reproduo / Paulo Alves
Step 2. In the right column, type English at the top before you start translating. This helps to keep the data organized but not required to apply the formula. Then select the cell next to the first term to be translated and type = googletradutor (without quotes) and click the button to enter the translation command;
Enter the Google Translate command in the next cell. Photo: Reproduo / Paulo Alves
Step 3. Click on the next cell to indicate the source of the translation and start filling in the command;
Start filling in the command with the code of the first term cell Photo: Reproduction / Paulo Alves
Step 4. Then use the abbreviations pt to indicate the original language and en for the target language with quotation marks and separated with space and semicolon. The command must have the following format: = GOOGLETRANSLATE (A2; "pt"; "en");
Enter the source and destination languages of the translation according to the example. Photo: Reproduo / Paulo Alves
Step 5. D Enter to translate. Then move the cursor over the translated cell, click and drag to the end of the column to replicate the command and translate all terms at once.
Drag the cell to replicate the command to translate the entire column Photo: Reproduction / Paulo Alves
To translate from or into other languages, simply replace the Google Translate command acronyms. Each language has its corresponding ISO code. Check it out below:
Google Tradudor Language Code List
| Language | Code | Language | Code |
| Afrikaans | af | irish | ga |
| albans | sq | Italian | it |
| arab | air | japanese | already |
| Azerbaijani | az | Kannada | kn |
| Basque | I | Korean | ko |
| Bengali | bn | Latin | there |
| Belarusian | be | leto | lv |
| Bulgarian | bg | Lithuanian | lt |
| catalo | here | Macedonian | mk |
| Simplified Chinese | zh-CN | Malay | ms |
| Traditional Chinese | zh-TW | malts | mt |
| Croatian | hr | noruegus | at the |
| Czech | cs | Persian | fa |
| danish | gives | polons | pl |
| Dutch | nl | English | pt |
| English | en | romanian | ro |
| Esperanto | it's the | Russian | ru |
| Estonian | et | Serbian | mr |
| Filipino | tl | Slovak | sk |
| finlands | fi | Slovenian | sl |
| francs | fr | Spanish | es |
| Galician | gl | swahili | sw |
| Georgian | ka | Swedish | sv |
| German | in | tmil | OK |
| Greek | el | Telugu | you |
| Gujarati | gu | Thai | th |
| Haitian Creole | ht | Turkish | tr |
| Hebrew | iw | Ukrainian | uk |
| Hindi | hi | Urdu | ur |
| hngaro | hu | Vietnamese | saw |
| islands | is | gals | cy |
| Indonesian | id | diche | yi |
