Advanced Typing - Shortcuts (1943)

Demonstrates importance of posture and arrangement of equipment. Shows how to use tab stops, tab bar, decimal tabulator and carbon packs, and how to remove or insert words and letters, make erasures and type cards, envelopes and labels.

[@hicknopunk]

OMG this lady has insane typewriter skills! I love how she shoots the postcards into the box behind the typewriter.

[@CubeHsiao]

Holy xxxx! She was so fast lol!

[@carolynholmberg7594]

This is my great Aunt Lenore. She won many, many typing contests - crazy!

[@josephgaviota]

@@carolynholmberg7594 She's obviously GREAT at her job. Congrats to her!

[@chrysiarose]

When I was stationed at the Pentagon years ago with the Army, I was awarded a medal for the outstanding office work I performed there. I don't think that award would happen in today's Army.

[@MisstyG]

Wow!

[@lisalu910]

Who else wants to go out and get an old Underwood manual typewriter after watching this? That label hack was genius! Never even KNEW you could do all that with a typewriter!

[@MarvinClarence]

Manual typewriters are the best and require most skill in the typewriting world!

[@johnc.bojemski1757]

Never saw the "DECIMAL POINT" system either! Amazing.

[@johnc.bojemski1757]

The techniques she's demonstrating are FABULOUS and mostly lost. They're just NOT taught in schools anymore. Love the "card holders" and "carbon copy" techniques she's demonstrating.

[@trylikeafool]

That's because COMPUTERS.

[@richardhall4122]

Great video. Have the same model Royal. Made about 1935. Still use it. Bought it 44 years ago.

[@MarvinClarence]

Good! Keep up your typing skills! I still use my manual typewriter for some work if they don’t require digital copies.

[@davereynolds7472]

I just heard you hitting a key. I think the capital R key if my hearing's still good.

[@captainkeyboard1007]

I am blessed to have learned typewriting when I was 12 years-old. Today, I am still keyboarding with fingers on the home keys, with a computer. Typewriting on a manual typewriter was a big job, but it was easily done. I like it better than writing by hand.

[@mariekatherine5238]

Oh, I’m OLD! I learned this stuff in high school, only on electric typewriters. They were brand new. Ours was the first class to use them. They kept the manuals for practice purposes. Students could sign them out and take them home for three days. I remember using the folded paper to properly insert carbon packs. These machines weighed a ton. I lugged one two miles home, once! I got my grandfather to drive me to school to return it. It meant I arrived an hour late and got detention, but it was worth it! This typewriter is an intricate marvelous piece of machinery. It runs so smoothly!

[@johnc.bojemski1757]

"Unskilled labor"... BULLDINCKY!!! WOW! I truly had NO idea just what went into the training of these incredibly "SKILLED" ladies and occasionally gentlemen too. (Company clerks in the military, etc.).

[@scratchdog2216]

My Mother was born in '47 and was a great typist. She also used Gregg shorthand.

[@1940limited]

Shorthand was like knowing another language. Great skills people had back then.

[@loki6253]

Shorthand is not easy. I used to know how but have way forgot now, all I remember is the word this

[@1940limited]

@@loki6253 Shorthand is like knowing another language.

[@loki6253]

@@1940limited Actually the @ symbol is shorthand

[@JupiterJane1984]

I did too, in the 80's

[@MarinaGarrison]

She’s a genius! The postcard flipping is amazing :)

[@JupiterJane1984]

Just about how I learned in 79-1982! Old schooling it all the way!

[@kernow9324]

I still type on index cards and didnt know you could type cards this way. Amazing.

[@Mr.SLovesTheSacredHeartofJesus]

This lady is super impressive! This is what I call professionalism. And she knows what she's doing. Sadly this is what's missing today. People who are proficient in their jobs. I wish I had learned to type from this lady.

[@archkull]

In a way we all are, watching these films on KZbin!

[@searching4quiet]

My mom went to secretarial school at Midland Tech in SC. She had these kinds of typewriters then an IBM Electric Typewritter :-) Reminds me of her skills.

[@BrittMFH]

YouTreen I remember typing on a manual typewriter in high school. Sooooo glad we progressed to electric and computers!!!!

[@loki6253]

I had the IBX elec. Fantastic typewriter. I hate flat keys

[@davereynolds7472]

I'm a Correcting-Selectric-2 guy from way back in the day.

[@davereynolds7472]

They'll probably become popular again in like a week. Start to go for like 8K. Then 12K.

[@davereynolds7472]

People want something MORE when you MAKE it literally UN AFFORDABLE. It allows them to COMPLAIN about the price. "Why couldn't it just be like 2,500, tops?" writes one long-time belly-acher.

[@maunster3414]

Damn! Now I wish I had a decent typewriter and supplies again.

[@carynschmidt5061]

Currently fiddling with an old Underwood I picked up in thrift for under $50. Keep your eyes peeled, they do pop up every now and again!

[@ellielopez1615]

@@carynschmidt5061 I got a working one for free! Just needs a cleanse.

[@cuthbertallgood7781]

This was Lenore Fenton MacClain, 1912-2005. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenore_Fenton_MacClain

[@Gannett2011]

I learned to type on office manuals like this in the 80s. Also went on to pass the typing exams. Well remember "top copy, black carbon, yellow flimsy, blue carbon, pink flimsy", and having to have three colours of Tipp-Ex paper to make the corrections! It was a skill that is obsolete now, I suppose. I wish I'd seen this film 40 years ago, there would have been some great tips here!

[@davereynolds7472]

You Tube allows us to visit different time dimensions. Then we're there. Afraid we'll be trapped there. Back with the parents we for so long tried to escape. AAAaaaaaagh. "They were worse than when the Mummies invaded - they were Parents."

[@johnc.bojemski1757]

This is why I LOVE these venerable old work horses of communication. They're as different and original in thinking as the old automobiles used to be. You know... 4 wheels, tires. Motor gas or diesel. Various doors 2,4,5 etc., body styles, colors and finishes. Same with TYPEWRITERS! And they said that "SECRETARIAL" work was "unskilled labor"?!!! Unappreciated! More likely because it was a traditional occupation for women, who are ALWAYS underpaid, unappreciated and undervalued for THEIR efforts in ALL workplaces, even the home!

[@jellyhead96]

Excellent! I totally forgot that we used to sign letters on the right hand side. When computers came into common use, everything got moved to the left.

[@BrittMFH]

jellyhead55 Oh, in my small law office they still sign letters on the right-hand side. 🙃

[@tngirl341]

I've never ever seen anything signed on the left side it's always the right side

[@MarvinClarence]

I still sign on the right!

[@jellyhead96]

@@tngirl341 Maybe it's on the left only in Australia.

[@karlmeyer9473]

@@jellyhead96 ha ha...I think right hand side must be US custom. In Britain the "yours faithfully" and sign was left side as a new paragraph.

[@nandi123]

Hitler and Tojo never stood a chance with Miss Fenton on our side!

[@gerrbaby90]

Why did I just watch just over 30 minutes of a video about using a typewriter?

[@kschindle1]

Curiosity

[@1940limited]

Because it's interesting!

[@mysecondemailatl]

@@kschindle1 lots of dead cats

[@tj921able]

It's interesting.

[@jamesharber7820]

Impressive it say the least! I took a one semester typing class on a manual typewriter as a Junior in high school in 1960. My best speed was a whopping 40 wpm. :) I am male. We, as beginners, were taught just the basics…none of this woman’s ultra cool “tricks”.

[@1940limited]

I have one of these Royal typewriters. It was my grandmother's. I used it a lot when I was in school, too. Actually, mine i older than this one. It has glass windows in the sides.

[@thundereagle4130]

What would this woman think if you told her the typing instruction she gave still teaches some typewriter nerds how to do things?

[@josephgaviota]

8:44 I own a Woodstock typewriter (which my late father earned by painting a garage) ... this is the FIRST time I've _ever_ heard that brand mentioned.

[@kayleejsunshine]

@ 23:24 woah! That postcard skill! I imagine she has done several hundred already.

[@travelinalaskan]

The card trick at 23:55 is fantastic!

[@maunster3414]

OMG! I see why she won the prize. I hope she learned how to command a great salary.

[@my_negative_world]

Damn I wish a job like this would be aviable these days. I'd love to work as a typist or a typewriter reapair men.

[@DriveupLife22]

Jobs like that do exist. You need to be able to type 120 to 150 words per minute. You can be a court stenographer or a minute taker where recordings aren't allowed like government or certain private sector businesess.

[@straightpipediesel]

@@DriveupLife22 Court stenographer is going away. A lot courts are now switching to recordings, and now court reporters are using voice recognition software (look up stenomask).

[@Mr.SLovesTheSacredHeartofJesus]

@@straightpipediesel Not all of them.

[@MarvinClarence]

@@DriveupLife22 They don’t necessarily use typewriters nowadays.

[@archkull]

@@MarvinClarence Yeah they use electronic steno machines, which are very different than typewriters and keyboards. (if they haven't already switched to recordings like the people above said)

[@johnc.bojemski1757]

Wow! I NEVER SAW THE "HAND STOP" SYSTEM OF "TABS" BEFORE!!!

[@fxxy3239]

I thought that was cool, too! But I'd be so petrified of losing those little thing-a-ma-bobs:)

[@enzyme20056]

So talented

[@johnc.bojemski1757]

Love the 2" pencil mark in the margin! FABULOUS!!! I'll start using THAT one immediately! The CARBON COPY tips too! (I usually just head over to my old multitasking computer copier/printer/scanner/fax machine to make my copies now. (It's almost IMPOSSIBLE to buy real "COPY PAPER" these days. (You know. The dark blue sheets she inserted behind the original white sheets.). Where oh where can they be found?

[@debramccafferty2918]

It’s carbon paper. I used to get the ink on my fingertips.

[@DriveupLife22]

Spoilers: Your grandparents may have been better at typing than you are. Btw the card flipping segment blew my mind.

[@Mr.SLovesTheSacredHeartofJesus]

I agree. This lady is a real proficient!

[@debramccafferty2918]

Yes I am!

[@FixedFace]

09:00 set the tabs old school

[@loki6253]

Gosh it is awful and hard to do

[@MarvinClarence]

@@loki6253 It’s not hard.

[@hoppyandhisholidayhelpers1714]

and I thought Word Perfect was difficult to manage

[@mysecondemailatl]

It's crazy, typewriters are pretty much antiquated, but I can almost see a use for them today in a more artistic use. With the way these three or four different typewriters she used have all these features such as drawing straight lines, folds, insertions, tabulations, etc. There would be no need for a printer or computer because what you do is already happening.

[@MarvinClarence]

I still use a typewriter for some work!

[@poetcomic1]

Can you imagine typing on a manual typewriter 8 hours a day five days a week, year in and year out? Millions of women did.

[@carynschmidt5061]

Yes and I came across an article the other day explaining how they did NOT get carpal tunnel...amazing.

[@DriveupLife22]

Better than sticking your hands in a dangerous loom hundreds of times a day 300 days a year.

[@Zachw2007]

Work is much easier on Mac or PC.

[@MarvinClarence]

@@carynschmidt5061 It’s all about skill and position. When I first started using the typewriter I got exhausted and my fingers got numb in less than fifteen minutes. Now I can type for more than an hour and just feel normal tired (because of activity), not because I don’t use it the correct way.

[@karlmeyer9473]

Now you just have millions of office workers tapping away on the laptop.

[@zardozcys2912]

Interesting how it has a decimal place memory tab stop for lining up your money. I had electric typewriters that didn't do that. Or I didn't know about it.

[@andyvan5692]

wow, at 24:36, this is how to do duplex printing!!!, and fast!!!

[@pinkmagicali]

I'm getting a typewriter repaired but it's newer than this film. I think mine is from the mid 60s. I've never heard of a tab-stop before. I wonder if mine has it. I don't think so but I'll have to squiz.

[@MarvinClarence]

Hello there! Did you get your typewriter? Is it a portable or a desktop?

[@MarinaGarrison]

It likely does but look for a TAB key. Not all have the CLR/SET function. There are lots of typewriter videos online so see if you can find a demo or review of yours.

[@suspiciouswatermelon7639]

This old girl can type! It's so hard to find a decent secretary these days who has these basic skills.

[@someonespadre]

I have a desk like that in my workshop.

[@5P3C73R]

The origins of the TAB key, carriage return (new line) etc.

[@BADBIKERBENNY]

Sad to think that this skill is practically obsolete with computers.

[@delareiflaventitus5966]

Yeah the years when instant death in typing is always on.

[@alphonsocarioti512]

Before White Out / Liquid Paper.

[@luissdstuff6381]

I was lucky in that I learned how to type on an IBM selectric II in high school in the early 80s. I loved that typewriter and wanted to buy one; but computers started to come in and I had trouble typing on their keyboard. It needed a lighter touch and friends made fun of me because I nearly punched a hole though the plastic key. Someone mentioned her how people now use their one finger to type which makes me laugh. I guess we all are a dying breed because we use all our fingers to type AND not look at the keyboard.

[@1940limited]

We had manual typewriters in HS, mostly Underwoods. The IBM Selectric was a nice typewriter. There were a lot of them around in the 80s. The correction key was a life saver! I could do 100 words/minute on a manual typewriter in my prime. I'm probably a little rusty now! :-)

[@loki6253]

I LOVED THAT TYPEWRITER

[@soneil7745]

I used a typewriter in school in the early aughts because we just didn't have a printer. Some of the keys were stuck. For another few years I instinctively reached up to flick back the C, H, and L hammers even if I was on a computer.

[@ambiguousPanda]

but how do I copy an past ?

[@BrittMFH]

ambiguous panda "and"

[@SheaMcDonough2001]

You couldn’t when using a classic typewriter like the one used in this video. That’s why carbon paper was invented, think of carbon paper as the original copy and paste if you will!

[@MarvinClarence]

Haw haw haw

[@karlmeyer9473]

Dirty computers. Smash them up!

[@johnc.bojemski1757]

None of my parochial schools offered "office skills" or "secretarial skilks" classes. Even if they DID? Back then? They were still considered "girlie" classes. DEFINITELY NOT FOR "REAL" MEN! (Even future journalists... LOL!)

[@SimirJohnson]

She forgot one shortcut - use a computer.

[@elm4453]

You forgot that this is 1943 didn't you?

[@MarvinClarence]

You forgot that the typewriter is the master race used by anyone to boast their skill, didn’t you? (Also, the fact that this is 1943)

[@debramccafferty2918]

Ha ha!