Mastering Computer Typing: A Painless Course for Beginners and Professionals [Spiral-bound]

Sheryl Lindsell-Roberts (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 12, 1995

What's the best way to make your computer more efficient? Learn how to touch-type! And this is the book that can teach you. The first complete guide for learning how to touch-type on a computer keyboard includes: How to get from A to Z on your keyboard; How to negotiate punctuation keys; How to type numbers on a numeric keypad; How to avoid fatigue and aches and pains, especially carpal tunnel syndrome; Tips for first-time and experienced computer users; User-friendly exercises and practice lessons to build up speed and efficiency. Designed for individual or classroom use in a handy spiral-bound format, Mastering Computer Typing is the perfect tutor, aid, or guide for everyone who needs to touch-type on a computer keyboard.

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About the Author

SHERYL LINDSELL-ROBERTS runs business-writing and e-mail seminars throughout the country and is the author of twenty-three books, including the popular Strategic Business Letters and E-mail, Mastering Computer Typing, Revised Edition, and 135 Tips for Writing Successful Business Documents.

Product Details

• Spiral-bound: 208 pages
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (July 12, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0395714060
• ISBN-13: 978-0395714065
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.9 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #250,033 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #41 in Books > Business & Investing > Skills > Secretarial Aids & Training

More About the Author

SHERYL LINDSELL-ROBERTS runs business-writing and e-mail seminars throughout the country and is the author of twenty-three books, including the popular Strategic Business Letters and E-mail, Mastering Computer Typing, Revised Edition, and 135 Tips for Writing Successful Business Documents.

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32 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Computer Students Learn Quickly from Book, August 1, 2005

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Marlon Morales "compTeacher" (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mastering Computer Typing: A Painless Course for Beginners and Professionals (Spiral-bound)

I am teaching a group of adults computer keyboarding for the workplace. This is by far the best book for the task. The excercises are practical. The spiral bound book makes an excellent desktop companion.

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Elementary not masterful instructions, August 7, 2009

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Jerome D. Dolenz - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mastering Computer Typing: A Painless Course for Beginners and Professionals (Spiral-bound)

I purchased this book in order to teach my mother. In 1997 during middle school years I took keyboarding class, which I excelled in. In that class we worked out of a hard cover blue spiral book. In that book there were pages of pages of drills that we had to work through in order to progress toward more keys. That is where this book was a disappointment to me.
One half of this book is dedicated to typing information and the back side discusses secondary topics, such as: LAN, landscape, leading, lowercase, pixel, semicolon use, and other grammar or computer terminology. The book even goes into DOS, how to format a floppy disk, copy a file using DOS copy command and even computer programming for example half of this book has code, such as:
if ( shift == 16) {
shift=1;
buffer1 = buffer <<shift;}
else {
buffer1 ^=buffer >> (15-shift);
++shift;
This is unacceptable. I am considering returning this book now having worked on this review and seen how off track this book really gets. This book is suppose to be purely to master computer typing, and I would have use for more drills less how to write a letter or learn of programming languages. An important topic on finger position is fully detailed in four sentences. This is dismal. The book doesn't even include the basic tip of keeping your index finger planted to the when reaching for a distant key, for instance, the return key. How is this possible?
The last thing I'll decide to spend time to say that the overall physical quality reminds me of a homemade recipe book, being small in width and length. For example, the pages are uneven where they meet the spiral top; essentially some pages are physically longer than others. There are probably more things I could write, but I think you get the point. For the record, if the book made me in any way aware of the other material covered in it than it'd be no harm no foul, but just look at the title. Hopefully, I can get this thing returned.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Typing book, December 27, 2007

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Eileen Okane "Factual Pais" (Northeast USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mastering Computer Typing: A Painless Course for Beginners and Professionals (Spiral-bound)

nice, easy to follow typing book for both those just starting out and for those who need refreshening