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My boss has a client who wants their policies converted to .PPT for use in
an online learning application. Apparently, we have a few clients who would
like this done. I normally work with Adobe and Macromedia products, and
I've never had the unpleasure of working with .PPT. :) I'm happy to learn
and I can't imagine that the ramp up time is going to be terribly long.
Initial inspection suggests it's fairly straightforward, a matter, mostly,
of applying sound information chunking principles.
How long might it typically take an experienced person to convert 30 Word
.DOC pages (in the typical *yawn* policy manual style) into .PPT?
As I understand it, he's only interested in making the .PPT it look pretty
with consistent styles, the client logo, some images placed strategically
to illustrate concepts and generate interest, etc. .PPT. This looks pretty
straightforward to me but, again, I'm not familiar with .PPT and there may
be pitfalls of which I'm unaware.
Frankly, from what he says, there's a lot more work like this so I
suggested that he needs to scope out the labor market and make sure he's
bidding on jobs with an appropriate understanding of how much the labor
cost will be if he hires contractors, as opposed to relying on me to do
everything. *sigh*
Could folks give me some idea of how much you might charge for converting a
30 pp .DOC to .PPT? I'm guessing he needs a reality check.
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