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Posted By: Not just now on 2008-05-14
In Reply to: Medrite XL question - Melanie
I have worked on it. My body will always tell me when I am at a certain line count, and I know this from many years of experience on different platforms.
The company I worked was Cornerstone in New Jersey, which you may or may not need/want to know. At first, the account I was on seemed to be accurate for line counts. I had no problem getting to the 800 to 1000 lines a day they were asking for full time. Every month I was there I struggled more and more for that minimum. I had a friend who worked there at the same time and she and I discussed this at length because she was finding the same thing. I attributed this to the company changing the way they counted lines from say a 65 keystroke line to a 75 keystroke line and maybe even an 85 keystroke line without saying anything to us who were supposed to be making 10 cpl.
As you mention this, I am wondering if it might be a MedRiteXL issue. Of course, if you are working for the above company, you have now been apprised of my experience and that I was not alone in this. As for the problem you mentioned, I never looked at that, so I really could not tell you whether I found it to be off or not.
You could copy and paste something you transcribed in WordPad and later convert it to Word when you are out of MedRite, because you can't run MedRite and Word at the same time. Word has a built in line calculator, although I have noted that most counting programs and platforms count up a slightly higher count than Word does, but it is very close.
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