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Thread poster: sandhya
sandhya
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Jun 12, 2002

Hi,



Can anybody tell me if it is acceptable to charge per slide in a Power Point presentation?

I know, one normally charges by the hour for PPT slides, but I would like to know what one could charge per slide.



Please help!

Thank you

sandhya
 
Mary Worby
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How long is a piece of string? Jun 12, 2002

You could charge per slide, but would run into problems inasmuch as there is no definition of a standard slide. If you are looking at a specific project and you can see what you are up against, you might be OK. But otherwise you need to bear in mind that a slide could contain anything between 1 and 300 words!



HTH



Mary
 
Nikki Scott-Despaigne
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Convert to Word to get a word count first Jun 12, 2002

and then base your quote on that.



Nikki
 
Jerzy Czopik
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Slide charges Jun 12, 2002

I assume that 8 EURO per slide could be a good average. Recently I did a Powerpoint translation with 76 slides and 3.698 word, an average of almost 50 words per page. But I needed one whole day to translate them (I mean this was something about 12 hrs). In this case I couldn´t charge per slide, only per word, and this with my usual rate, because it was for a friend running an agency, and he forgot that Powerpoint needs more time.

The best I ever achieved was 20 DM each slide - and thi... See more
I assume that 8 EURO per slide could be a good average. Recently I did a Powerpoint translation with 76 slides and 3.698 word, an average of almost 50 words per page. But I needed one whole day to translate them (I mean this was something about 12 hrs). In this case I couldn´t charge per slide, only per word, and this with my usual rate, because it was for a friend running an agency, and he forgot that Powerpoint needs more time.

The best I ever achieved was 20 DM each slide - and this was just right according to the time I spent to translate.

Powerpoint is far less user friendly as Word is.



Regards

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sandhya
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Thanks a lot for the replies! I have a fair idea now! Jun 14, 2002

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On 2002-06-12 19:05, JCzopik wrote:

I assume that 8 EURO per slide could be a good average. Recently I did a Powerpoint translation with 76 slides and 3.698 word, an average of almost 50 words per page. But I needed one whole day to translate them (I mean this was something about 12 hrs). In this case I couldn´t charge per slide, only per word, and this with my usual rate, because it was for a friend running an agency, and ... See more
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On 2002-06-12 19:05, JCzopik wrote:

I assume that 8 EURO per slide could be a good average. Recently I did a Powerpoint translation with 76 slides and 3.698 word, an average of almost 50 words per page. But I needed one whole day to translate them (I mean this was something about 12 hrs). In this case I couldn´t charge per slide, only per word, and this with my usual rate, because it was for a friend running an agency, and he forgot that Powerpoint needs more time.

The best I ever achieved was 20 DM each slide - and this was just right according to the time I spent to translate.

Powerpoint is far less user friendly as Word is.



Regards

Jerzy

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