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What this video covers

This tutorial shows how to use the CopyDoc Figma plugin to localize a Figma frame by exporting its text to an Excel spreadsheet, translating it into multiple locales, and importing the translations back into Figma. It also shows that re-importing updated spreadsheets creates a new translated page without overwriting the existing one.

Things you'll need

• Figma
• CopyDoc plugin
• Microsoft Excel or another spreadsheet tool

Steps

1. Install the CopyDoc plugin from the Figma Community Plugins tab.
2. Open your Figma file, right-click, go to Plugins, and launch CopyDoc.
3. Choose “Localize Figma Frames,” then click “Localize Frames” to load the frames on the current page.
4. Select the frame you want to localize, add locales such as French, Japanese, and German, and click “Export to Excel Spreadsheet.”
5. Open the exported Excel file, fill in the translation columns for each locale, and save the completed spreadsheet.
6. Return to CopyDoc, drag and drop the translated Excel file into the plugin, then click “Localize Selected Frames” to import the translations.
7. Review the newly created translations page in Figma, and repeat the import process later if you want to update translations without overwriting the earlier page.

Useful links

• Watch the full video on YouTube
• Read the full video transcript
• Read: Localize your Figma design text layers
• Next: Translate Figma text layers with XLIFF files
• Open CopyDoc in the Figma Community