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by Answerbag Staff on May 16th, 2010

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How do I calculate gross lines in a medical transcription report?

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  • by Susan Presley on May 16th, 2010

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    Counting Characters

    Type the entire transcribed report. Use your word processor's function to do calculation of how many characters, including spaces, are in the report (usually under "tools" and "word count"). If the electronic form of the report is not available, count the characters manually.

    Use Division

    Divide the number of characters by 65 and the total will be the gross number of lines in the transcription report. Regardless of how many blank or partially full lines of typing are on the page, 65 characters constitute a gross typed line of transcription.

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  • by jms1228 on May 19th, 2010

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    Generally speaking, a gross line is any line in which a character appears (the number of characters does not matter). In Word, you can find the number of gross lines two different ways: (i) Go to "Tools"; Click "Word Count" and the number of gross lines appears next to the word "Lines;" or (ii) Go to "File;" click "Properties;" click "Statistics" and the number of gross lines appears next to the word "Lines." Caclulating a gross line can actually be more difficult than that because of formatting, headers, footers and differences between an electronic document and a formatted printed document.

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