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Lower line counts??? - Line Counter


Posted: Dec 12, 2014

Since this new "compensation plan", is it just me or has anyone else noticed they are working harder than ever, yet getting less lines?

Try counting the lines in by hand or in Word? - Which platform?

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I don't know which platform you are on but does your platform tell you how many lines in each report when you are done? If so, print out the report and count the lines by hand or copy and paste into Word and check the character count with spaces and divide by 65 or whatever your standard line is? Then delete report. Just a suggestion. Once in a blue moon I count the characters in a report by hand just to check against the platform.

Dictaphone never matches - Cannot get a straight answer

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I've mentioned this before, but my line counts never match up, whether you take just the "body" text and get a character count, divide by 65, whether you take the whole document, or even when you pull up the report and look at the statistics in ExEditor: They never match!

I can't seem to get a straight answer why, either! If my calculations are correct, they are taking off thousands of dollars each year worth of lines!

Same here - I also figured it out

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I work in EditScript and I took just the body of the report and it never adds up. It is decreased in ES by 10 to 40 lines, if not more. Dirty, rotten thieves they are.

yes - my line counts are lower

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Line counts - Mine too

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I noticed it as well.


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