I have a S7 project originally written in German that I am trying to troubleshoot. Can the symbol table be exported into Excel then translated and imported back into S7 v5.5? Is there any way to do a bulk translation of the STL comments as well?
The multilingual texts for the symbol table include the comments, but not the tag names themselves. This should create a bunch of files, containing different categories of text. For many texts in the project, like comments, you can have text entered for multiple languagues, and switch between them easily.
You can import/export from the symbol table to a few different text formats. None of them are directly a CSV file, but some of them are close, or tab delimited. You can change the tag names here, then import back in.
Is it just me or is the learning curve pretty significant? Thanks for your help!
It isn't just you. Siemens vs AB solve pretty much the same problem (program a PLC) in completely different ways, and (besides the basics of ladder logic), almost nothing about the User Interface transfers from one to the other. Not saying one is better than the other, but they are definitely different.
TIA Portal (now in V14) is much easier to use, though, if/when you get the opportunity. It requires a beast of a PC to run happily (but then, so does Studio5000 these days), but the UI is so much improved from the old Simatic Manager.