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Originally Posted by Cinisajoy
20 edits in an hour sounds fast.
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It
is quick. We have a lot of clients give us
very inefficient proof forms. For example, hand-written ones. (no copy-paste-search). Or ones where the edits are buried in paragraphs, even though we pretty expressly tell them DON'T do that. (Same reason--if we have to read a paragraph, we've lost money on the edits.) We show them, in sample edits on the form, the best way to do them (for everyone). Very simple, typically a sentence or half a sentence, 5-6 words surrounding the edit, old text/new text. You'd think those instructions would be easy to follow, but....apparently not.
Same thing with using the forms. I ask, and ask, and ask, and STILL, 30+% have to send the edits in, in an email. Will NOT use the form, even though it exists in pretty much all word-processing formats. When that happens, I have to read the email, copy the edits, and then either put them in the form, or reformat them so my guys can easily read them, paste them to the right place, etc. It doesn't sound like much time, granted--and it wouldn't be, if it was ONE person. But it never is; it's 5 or 10 or....
Thx
Hitch