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When text is typed and Ctl/S/H is used to make it a header, does that - count as text we get paid for?

Posted: Nov 13, 2012

Nope. We are only paid for "Black Characters" not red - even if you typed it first and

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changed it to a red heading - Black characters only.

Wait. - We get paid for red headers

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right?

Yes, we do. - Just Sayin NM

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We get paid for headers, just not ADT or CC's - See policy at website. NM

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Count some reports .... - anon

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I tried that and the line count did not include the red headers. Maybe I did something wrong but that's the conclusion I came to.

Here is how I check line count, and it shows - we do get paid for headers

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I've used this same method time and time again, and unless I'm doing something wrong, we get paid for everything on the page.

I take a report, copy and paste entire contents of report into an MS Word document. Use the word count option. It shows total words, total characters with spaces, or without spaces, etc.

A report I did today showed:

Characters (no spaces): 10,802
Characters (with spaces): 12,994

So if we are paid based on a 65-character line, and paid for spaces, that means we take the characters with spaces total and divide by 65, right?

That gives me a line count of 199.91.

DQM actually shows 200.98 for that report.

Doing the same for a different report yields similar results - DQM actually shows a tiny bit higher line count than MS word calculates. So unless I'm doing something wrong, we are getting paid for everything, including headers.

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