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from: Broderbund
Binding: CD-ROM
Brand: Broderbund
Color: Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing 12
EAN: 0772040808587
Format: CD-ROM
Label: Broderbund
Manufacturer: Broderbund
Model: 380858
Publisher: Broderbund
Release Date: July 21, 2001
Sales Rank: 4548
Studio: Broderbund
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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.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Great product but needs some flexibility
I 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 Software
Like 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 weil
If you started with mavis 5 and your still buying them through mavis 12, maybe you should just give up on learning to type....
Rating: - complaint --- rules about space between sentences
Dear Broderbund:
I am in a computer training program and we just installed Mavis Beacon 12 in our computers (7 in our lab). My first complaint is the fact that we have to leave the computer disk in the disk reader in order to be able to use Mavis Beacon. If you take the disk out of the tower, even though you have downloaded the disk,
Mavis is not there to call up and use.
Another complaint is the rule about 2 spaces between sentences is not followed. Mavis consistently ... Read More
Rating:  - I learned from Mavis in 1993
The Best tutorial. Give yourself 60 day, 60 minutes a day and you'll be an expert.
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