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Brand: Broderbund Color: Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing 12 EAN: 0772040808587 Format: CD Label: Broderbund Manufacturer: Broderbund Model: 380858 Platform: Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows 95 Publisher: Broderbund Release Date: July 21, 2001 Studio: Broderbund Editorial Review: Product Description: Boost your keyboarding skills with the #1 best selling typing software! Customized lessons become more challenging as your skills improve. Measures your progress with speed tests! Amazon.com Product Description: Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing offers an effective way to improve keyboarding skills. The program features customized typing lessons for the novice to the advanced typist, with age-appropriate content, extensive practice material, skill-building games, and more. New features in this version of Mavis Beacon include typing instruction in Spanish and English, a manual for one-hand typists, and an expanded personal coach that offers easy-to-use business and personal productivity templates for résumés, cover letters, press releases, and more. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Great product but needs some flexibilityI picked this up in a bargain bin, and now would have paid more. I was surprised that this SW enabled me to quickly unlearn bad pecking habits. I'd like to see more utilities to review my progress and an option to work on weak keys (still having trouble with g and h!)--Broderbund--listen up! Not sure if this is really a four star since I have not tried other typing programs. Rating:  - Defective SoftwareLike the other reviewer Mavis Beacon 12 froze at the last beginner lesson. Rather than mess around with this obviously defective product I'm trying another developers'. My computer is an IBM T40 running the latest version of XT Professional. Rating: - shawn weilIf you started with mavis 5 and your still buying them through mavis 12, maybe you should just give up on learning to type.... Rating: - Freezes Beginners OutThis program is set to freeze the screen if the new typist is unable to pass the test for intermediate level. This has caused great frustration for our kids. The program needs to be rebooted each time. I only found the solution to this by going to the Broderbund website. Broberbund seems to think rebooting is a simple solution for beginners. I find this program difficult for left handed typist. It gives the intermediate test immediately after the lesson for the ,and. These are two difficult ... Read More Rating:  - The cover doesn't lie!I bought this software on 8/16/2002, in effort to boost my typing skills. I type primarily with one hand due to my disability; and I needed to refresh myself on the techniques of one-handed typing (which I learned when I was a junior in high school 5 years ago.) Before purchasing this software, I was at a speed of a mere 12 words a minute, I needed to get back up to at least 30 wpm, which is half the speed I was in high school. Today, 8/20/2002, I am up from 12 wpm to 30-35 wpm! I am confident that ... Read More |
