If you have Word Perfect, it is easy. Just open any document, default the font and margins and do a

You can do a comparrison on gross lines versus 65 character line count by opening any document you have and counting lines both ways. 

I have almost always been paid the gross line and still am right now.  No matter what the margins or font is, all documents are converted to 1 inch margins and 12 Courier font.  You do not count blank lines.  I make an average of 0.08 a gross line, which the way I am paid would average out to about 11-12 cents a 65 character line.

Hope this helps!

• Paid Gross Line - Wondering
  • If you have Word Perfect, it is easy. Just open any document, default the font and margins and do a - line count making sure to check the do not count b
    • Not every company converts to Courier 12 to pay you. sm - Gracie Gross
  • Courier 10 in Word is a 72 character line. - Gracie Gross
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  • Not sure what it is you want to know? - Morgan
    • Paid Gross Line - Wondering
      • Correct me if I'm wrong but I think courier 12 gives 65 characters - with 1 inch margins and courier 10
        • 10 is smaller not larger than 12, so it would be more than 65 cpl- nm - xx
          • In the past, on a typewriter, Courier 10 meant - 10 characters per inch and 12 meant
          • More -- 10 is 77 cpl, and 12 is 64. Now if is usally is a lot of partial lines than this will be a - xx
            • a good rate, - sm - xx

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I have pretty much always been paid by the gross line...occasionally I will take a job with a company that pays by characters and I never make as money.  Remember...with gross lines, a line is a line is a line....that means anything on the lines be it one character or 65 is a line.  For instance....today I type a normal file for a client I have worked on for years...if I counted the lines at 65-cpl I got 398 lines, but counting gross lines I got 641 lines.  This is a 38% difference in pay between the two, so you would be making approximately 5 cents a line less on the character count.  Hope this helps :)

I used to have an account that we could type Control and L and that would make a page break with the margins for a letter.  I don't know how to create this.  I looked into macros in Word and am totally confused and have no idea what to do.

Can anyone help me figuer out a way I can assign Control and L for the letter margins and control P for progress note margins.  I'd really appreciate any help

for line numbering?  It keeps indenting 1-2-3,etc. to the first tab and I need the numbers along the left margin.  I went to <format>, <bullets and numbering>, <customize>, and changed the number position and alignment, and it lines everything up on the left margin. 

However, if I have another numbered section in the report, it goes back to the default setting, indenting to the first tab. 

Is there a way to change the default, or do I have to go through these steps for each numbered list? 

Thanks!

I have a friend who sent me a document with .docx extension, presumably Word 2007. I can open it in Word 2003; however, all I see are musical notes and highlighting, no text (this is a document with words and highlighting only, no pictures, music notes, etc.). I tried to open this with Notepad and only see the usual gibberish.

I know I opened another 2007 Word doc before and I remember seeing the converter load at that time but that was probably a year ago. Is there something that has changed that I'm not aware of?

Darn Microsoft.

Yes I have used word perfect since the 80's. Last year when we rebuilt my computer  the newest version gives a choice of using word perfect or MS word . I prefer word perfect in many ways. Try it you will love it. I use it for other clients to create logos. It  has a photo storage to create posters and brochures  for example pictures of work my husband has done on worksites that actually show the quality of his work, his creativity and custom work. Steadmans also has a medical speller that can be added.

Sue Kelly

Format - Line- Spacing

Then set your spacing and hit enter.

Type a test page.  Set those margins on and see how many lines you get per page.  Don't know if it is 2 inches on sides and 2.5 on top and bottom or what.  But see how many lines you get per page and divide it by 2.00 and see what your cpl is.  But if they are crunching reports onto one page, beware you will probably lose money unless you have many, many reports of under 20 to 25 lines.   But no one knows how many "short" reports you get but my guess is not many and so with one or two full pagers, you will lose all your profit.  That is why it is best to be paid for the production you produce.    But that is me. 

Okay, so I'm a diehard - word perfect 5.1 for DOS is still the best, as far as I am concerned.  I have been working for years off of a set of disks that have been copied from copies from copies, etc. 

After 2 computer crashes in the last 2 years, I realize how important it is to have a good original set of disks for this program, just on the outside chance that the next time I need to reload them, they decide not to work (heaven forbid). 

Anyway, if anyone has a set of WP 5.1 DOS disks for sale (preferably cheap), please e-mail me with the cost, etc. 

Thanks. 

I have several hundred typed out, but cannot for the life of me figure out how to turn it into a mailing list.  I have downloaded Avrey Wizard, but when I try to do it, it asks me about field delimiters and no matter what I pick it doesn't work.  Maybe there is a simpler way??

Thanks!