Does anyone out there know what would be a reasonable page rate for a remote operator to reformat vast numbers of Word documents? The files have been written in Word by users with no training and no discipline. Many are not attached to templates and do not use the styles available. Many are badly structured, badly written and badly formatted. They do however have legal status against a variety of ISO standards and other global industry based legal and audit requirements. New controlled templates have been developed and these must be applied across the board to all documents. This would be partly technically skilled work in that VBA macros could be used to do some of the clean-up, partly intelligent tech writer work to ensure the intended structure, heading levels etc are retained, and partly brain dead for all the manual rechecking and style application. There would be no involvement with content although pointing out obvious issues could be a value added. Any ideas? Please reply off list. Christine cbirtleykent@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ************************************************** To post a message to austechwriter, send the message to austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe to austechwriter, send a message to austechwriter-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "subscribe" in the Subject field. To unsubscribe, send a message to austechwriter-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe" in the Subject field. To search the austechwriter archives, go to www.freelists.org/archives/austechwriter To contact the list administrator, send a message to austechwriter-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx **************************************************