Table Of ContentBetty and Warner A. Hut shim ton
Computer Typing
Made Simple*
The touch-typing system adapted to computer keyboards
Learn to enter characters, words, and commands quickly
Use home or office computer functions effectively
Special drills speed your progress — fully illustrated
COMPUTER TYPING
MADE SIMP
Betty and Warner
Hutchinson
MADE SIMPLE BOOKS®
DOUBLEDAY & COMPANY, INC.
GARDEN CITY, NEW YORK
LIBRARY
CLERMONT GENERAL & TECHNICAL COLLEGE
UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI
BATAVIA, OHIO 45103
Authors of Word Processing Made Simple
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Hutchinson, Betty.
Computer typing made simple.
1. Electronic data processing—Keyboarding.
2. Microcomputers. I. Hutchinson, Warner. II. Title.
QA76.9.K48H87 1985 001.64'42 84-8143
ISBN 0-385-19429-3
Copyright © 1985 by Doubleday & Company, Inc.
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America
First Edition
CONTENTS
Introduction 5
Chapter 4
New Keys: rv um 35
Chapter 1
The Electronic Word and Your
First Finger Keys 36
Keyboard 7
Functions 38
The Electronic Word 9 Top and Bottom Margins 38
Typing and Characters 9 Double Spacing 39
The Computer Keyboard 10 Side Margins 42
Programmable Function Keys 11 For 12-CPI Characters 42
Special Function Keys 12 Use of the Grid 43
Ten-Key Number Pad 14
The QWERTY Typing Keyboard 16 Chapter 5
New Keys: wx 0. 45
Chapter 2
Home Position 19 Third Finger Keys 46
Spacing Rules 47
The Home Position 20
Functions 48
Right-hand Fingers 22
Word Wrap 48
Left-hand Fingers 22
Heads 48
Both Right-hand and Left-hand
Justification or Ragged Right 49
Fingers 23
Functions 25
Chapter 6
Backspace and Delete 25
New Keys: tg yh 51
Move Cursor 26
Shift 26
Caps Lock 27 More First Finger Keys 52
Left-hand Fingers 53
Chapter 3 Functions 54
New Keys: ec i, 29 Center Text 54
Copies 55
Second Finger Keys 30 Hard Copy Duplicates 55
Functions 32
Automatic Page Numbering 55
Block Move 32
Print from Screen 56
Block Copy and Block Delete 33 Print Part of a Document 56
4 Computer Typing Made Simple
Stop Printing 56 Chapter 9
Paper Feeders 57 New Keys: 12345 !@#$% 79
Numbers and Symbols 80
Chapter 7
New Keys: bn-’” 59 Functions 84
Further Cursor Movements 84
Character Enhancement 84
More First Finger Keys 60
Left-hand Finger 60
Chapter 10
Right-hand Finger 60
New Keys: 67890 a &*() 87
Watch the Screen, Not the Keys 61
A Business Letter 62
More Numbers and Symbols 88
Some Punctuation Keys 63 Dates 89
Hyphens 63 Functions 93
Underline 64 Additional Commands 94
Quotation Marks 65 Horizontal Motion Index 94
Functions 66 Word Count 94
Search 66 Help Menu 95
Search and Replace 66
Chapter 11
Extra Keys: + []{}] \ 97
Chapter 8
New Keys: qz p/? 69
Other Extra Keys 98
Functions 99
More Little Finger Keys 70
Filing and Recall 99
Functions 73
Block Move 100
Tabs 73
Other File Functions 100
Move Tab Settings 75
Flush Left Tab 76
Chapter 12
Flush Right Tab 76
Some Other Keyboards 101
Center Tab 76
Extract 77 The Dvorak Keyboard 107
Introduction
Computer Typing Made Simple is a guide amounts of word output (unless you happen
for the person who owns—or has regular to be a writer and want to use your personal
access to—a personal computer and who computer for manuscript preparation). In
wants to use it more efficiently and with other words, we are not preparing you to
greater pleasure. A number of assumptions be an office typist. Still, as you grow in
underlie the content and structure of this proficiency in using your computer, you
book. may generate more words—reports, sum¬
maries, proposals, letters—than at present
1. You are interested in using your per¬ you consider doing.
sonal computer with greater ease, not in 3. Our standard keyboard in this book is
just learning how to type. In fact, you the IBM PC keyboard. We will discuss
probably have very little interest in sitting word and command manipulation functions
down in front of a typewriter at all. There¬ using the IBM PC keyboard as our main
fore, this book will make no direct reference model. However, in Chapter 12 we include
to typewriter typing. You should think of a section on the keyboards of other major
this book as dealing with word and command systems (Apple, DEC Rainbow, KAYPRO,
entry, or “keyboarding,” rather than “typ¬ Radio Shack, and so on), since these ma¬
ing,” but the term “typing” is so widespread chines are also widely present in the mar¬
that we have retained it. ketplace. Most computers have similar func¬
2. You are not a typist or a secretary who tions: The names the manufacturers give
wants to learn word processing. We have these functions often vary, and the location
written a book entitled Word Processing and title of the keys that perform these
Made Simple especially for these people. functions often differ from system to system.
In that book we connect typewriting expe¬ If you have a system other than the IBM
rience with word-processing skills. Here, PC and other than one also described in
however, we imagine that you are not this book, you can readily translate our
primarily interested in generating heavy directions for use on your system by com-
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6 Computer Typing Made Simple
paring functions and making the application 5. We also assume that you live a full,
to your system. active life and that you don’t want to attend
4. We use the QWERTY keyboard as “typing classes.” Our book, designed for
our main approach to word and command busy people, focuses on giving them famil¬
entry. QWERTY is so named because the iarity with the keyboard itself as well as the
letters on the keyboard from the top left main key functions needed to operate the
spell q-w-e-r-t-y. This system was adopted computer. We assume you do not want to
on manual typewriters early in the devel¬ spend hours in intricate and onerous drill
opment of the typewriter; it was later used work in order to reach a prescribed level of
on electric typewriters; and it has since accuracy and speed. We are not preparing
been put on the keyboards of most word you to pass a typing test. However, each
processors and computers. Probably 99.9 time you sit in front of your screen doing
percent of all keyboards you will ever en¬ your regular work, we urge you to spend a
counter are QWERTY keyboards. How¬ few extra minutes practicing our simple
ever, there is an alternative system of key drills. If you do so regularly, you will
arrangement called the Dvorak keyboard. discover that your accuracy and speed will
It was designed in the 1930s and eventually steadily increase to a level that will quite
named after its designer and chief propo¬ surprise you. Our aim is to give you greater
nent, August Dvorak. It provides a faster pleasure in making your computer perform
and easier option than the QWERTY key¬ its tasks and to help you concentrate more
board and is becoming increasingly available on the tasks themselves than on the me¬
for personal computers. Usually, though, it chanics of getting the words and commands
has to be specially ordered from a computer into the system.
manufacturer, so if you are interested and
your salesperson doesn’t know about the And so, welcome to Computer Typing
availability of Dvorak keyboards, press the Made Simple. As you get into more and
point. And since this book deals with the more interaction with your computer, we
QWERTY keyboard, in Chapter 12 we have hope your family, friends, and colleagues
included considerable information about the will still see something of you from time to
Dvorak keyboard. time!
**
THE ELECTRONIC
WORD AND YOUR
KEYBOARD
As you sit in front of your screen, machine to think of the written word as The Word.
turned on, disks in the disk drives, and But still words are only representations of
fingers poised above the keyboard, it is objects, ideas, and feelings that can also be
useful to consider the nature of the elec¬ thought about and talked about. Words on
tronic word and how that word and your paper can be most useful (or else you would
keyboard are connected. not have bought this book), but they are
Words come in many forms. only one of a number of forms words can
Some are found on paper. A handwritten take.
letter or memo. A typed report. Or a printed Some words are ideas in your mind only;
book or magazine article. These words take you never voice them or write them down.
on a kind of objective reality, since they But you conceive them and use them in
physically exist on paper. We can go back your thinking or your internal response
to them time and again to review them and about a situation. They can have a strong
to search out levels of meaning they may impact on you, even though no one else
contain. Because of our cultural reverence knows you ever thought them.
of sacred words and learned words, we tend Some are voiced words. You speak them.
