localization problem

Hi

I have quite a lengthy appplication that has a requirement to be localized into in Spanish as well as in English.

I have set the localizable flag to true on every form in the project, and then selected spanish as the Language. My hope was that a Spanish resx file would then be generated for each form, and i could copy and paste these into excel, and then send the excel file off for translation.

Unfortunately it seems that to generate the Spanish resx file, you actually have to start editing the strings in the form that you want translated.

Is there anyway around this? Or to I have to manually add a resource file to the project. Enter all the strings into it, and manually change all these when a form is firest created ?

Any help would be appreciated

cheers

simon