Hi.  I'm forwarding this message from another list, so please send any
responses directly to the person and not to this list.  Thanks; and I hope
someone can help her.
Rachel

>From: Debbie Strader <[log in to unmask]>
>
>Hi everybody.  I am a medical transcriber and work independently and need to
>count my lines, as I am paid per line.  The company has been counting my
>lines, but half of the time, they don't count them and a lot of the time, I
>don't get paid for months for what I have done.  I am a word perfect user.
>The work is sent to the hospital in word perfect 5.1.  I use WP9 and convert
>it down.  The company I work for wants us to count characters, words and
>lines and add them together and divide them by 65.  Although wp 9 will give
>me all of that information, when it counts lines, it counts blank lines.  Is
>there any way I can set it not to count blank lines?  Have any of you used
>either Sil count, or docucount?  Are they speech friendly with JFW and do
>they count just print lines and give you character info and word counts.
>Any help would be very much appreciated.  Deb and Justus


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