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Just a little help in case you werent aware of it - jh

Posted: Mar 06, 2012

A lot of the standards are single spaced, whether they are supposed to be or not..

if you go to the top panel there are a pair of binoculars the icon NEXT to it on the right is a find and replace feature,,,you can type in any say word that is consistently wrong and then type it correctly in the replace box and it will fix the whole document...Same can be done for punctuation put in there . (one space) and in the find replace put the . (two spaces) and hit the button, fixes the whole mess..

How do the MQ/MM standards look now? I don't...sm - oldtimer

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work there anymore but I remember being so frustrated with the standards when I worked there, so many simple but critical errors. I had one bariatric surgery account that had about 20 standards and all were just awful. I ended up correcting all of them and making my own standards for that account.

why would you take the time to go in and change spacing - never

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If the standard has 1 space, leave it. If the standard has word spelled wrong, notify QA person, and leave it.
If the ASR puts 1 spcae and the account needs 2, notify ASR support staff and leave it.

There is no way on this planet that I am taking the time to fix this crap when the people paid to fix it wont. Never gonna happen.

well it is an easy fix and extra spaces do go towards extra lines - but your right

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I dont think they pay us for 2 spaces anyway - no matter what the client wants

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I am just not taking any more of my "production time" fixing their junk. Especially stuff like this that they could fix on the back end.

Really?? Is there a program that will count lines - They ripped us off years ago

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and got basically a spanking..they WILL do it again

If they dont pay us for dbl spaces, Im not doing them regardless of the client profile - how can we find this our

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when you look at report after upload - there is only 1 space

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so that tells me that on their "back end formatting," they change all double spaces to single space, and they probably calculate the line count after that.

This is my opinion, as I see no reason for them to switch to 1 space when the client profile does not specify to type only 1 space.

Honestly when I go into documanage I have not see that.. - but ill check more carefully

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Really sucks when you cant trust a single thing anymore..What do seem to be awfully low on line counts are the straight transcription jobs..Im gonna save a couple and manually count them just for the heck of it..

When I look at the reports after upload on my - anon

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accounts, there are 2 spaces. The client profiles on my accounts call for 2 spaces and that is what it is in the final product. If I mess up and put 1 space, that is what is there and it is caught if that report is audited.

Yes, this is true. I've found the same - Just Sayin

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doesn't matter whether you put 1 or 2 spaces, it will reformat to only 1 space and I guarantee that's all we're getting paid for. Don't waste your time going back and putting in 2 spaces. I did that before, only to find out I was wasting my time.

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