- Instructional software for improving typing speed and accuracy
- Timed typing tests; 8 exciting games; interesting articles for practice
- View or print results to assess strong and weak areas
- Professor Teaches Word and Excel improves application skills
- Professor Answers provides learning just when it’s needed
Product Description
Designed for business users this program has hundreds of lessons and tests using 3D hand placement with visuals to help users learn to touch type. Also included is a tutorial that teaches the use of Microsoft Excel & Word 2003. System Requirements:Pentium PC or higher 16MB RAM available 2X CD Rom Drive 256 Color (800 x 600) VGA Mouse Sound Card and Speakers 60 MB HD with 12 Additional MB needed if Career Planner is also loaded. F… More >>
This worked fine on my old PC, and I liked the program. But once I upgraded…thank you very much… to using XPpro on Bootcamp, this was the only application that would not run. Don’t know why.
Rating: 2 / 5
This software helps you practice typing, and improve your typing. It’s also got a small course in word and excel which are very helpful for the office skills.
Rating: 5 / 5
The online product registration using the installation disc didn’t work. Other than that, the installation went smoothly. Once installed, the product seems polished and intuitive to the point that we haven’t needed any of the help screens or the complete pdf help document. My wife used Mavis Beacon and seems to think this is just as good and also gives us the added Word and Excell tutorials. From my point of view, it uses less memory than Mavis and seems better behaved – no problems at all so far. And Individual Software isn’t trying to sell us more stuff every five minutes. So far, I give it an A.
Rating: 4 / 5
I learned to type in high school (on an electric typewriter, so I didn’t get spoiled by spelling and grammar checkers), and I was already a pretty good typist on alpha keyboarding. I am fair-to-middling on alphanumeric keyboarding and keypad data entry. This software gives me a chance to practice and improve in all three areas. The software does include levels for the brand-new and still-learning typist, although I can’t speak to how well those work as I am already very experienced. A few caveats: While the alpha keyboarding and keypad data entry components are excellent, there is no component for true alphanumeric data entry (i.e. entering names, addresses, and phone numbers for database purposes). The alphanumeric component is simply an integration of numbers and symbols into the alpha keyboarding paragraphs. You need to be careful which scores you’re looking at when deciding where you need to concentrate (or, say, you’re putting together a resume and want to accentuate where your skills are); my alpha keyboarding is very fast and my alphanumeric keyboarding speed is mid-range, but my keypad data entry is pretty slow (I didn’t cover that last in high school). A combination score of all three of these is, I feel, unfair. The games don’t record the typing speed you achieve as you’re playing, and you may not even see the typing speed if you are trying to concentrate on typing swiftly and accurately and can’t look away long enough to see the current speed. And, lastly, the “Gone Fishing” game sends the numbers darting too fast across the screen. My 30+ year old eyes can barely catch them, let alone transmit the info to my fingers to key them.
Rating: 4 / 5