Synopses & Reviews
Bring together keyboarding results and computer applications success with the leading software for keyboarding instruction and document checking -- MICROTYPE 6 WITH CHECKPRO FOR CENTURY 21™ COMPUTER SKILLS AND APPLICATIONS, 6E. This best-selling software follows the proven Century 21™ approach that has taught more than 85 million students to type. Users learn touch-typing instruction for alphabetic and numeric keyboarding and the numeric keypad using engaging skill-building activities, games, motivating graphics, and a word processor with built-in timer. MICROTYPE teaches correct finger placement and helps learners build basic keyboarding skills before developing speed and accuracy. This outstanding software can be used alone or can work seamlessly with CENTURY 21™ COMPUTER SKILLS AND APPLICATIONS. The document-checking application, CheckPro, corresponds directly to documents users key in from CENTURY 21™ COMPUTER SKILLS AND APPLICATIONS. CheckPro checks keystrokes and formatting in Microsoft Word 2013, checks keystrokes and formulas in Excel 2013, and ensures completion of PowerPoint 2013 documents. Detailed reports help users or instructors easily track progress and focus efforts in the areas needed to ensure keyboarding and computer application success.
Synopsis
MicroType 6 with CheckPro is a combination software program for keyboarding instruction and document checking. MicroType 6 includes touch-typing instruction for alphabetic and numeric keyboarding and the numeric keypad, skill-building activities, games, motivating graphics, and a word processor with built-in timer. MicroType teaches correct finger placement and helps students build basic keyboarding skills, then develop speed and accuracy. CheckPro is a document-checking application specific to the Century 21 10e textbooks. When students type documents from the text, CheckPro checks keystrokes and formatting in Microsoft Word 2013, keystrokes and formulas in Excel 2013, and completion of PowerPoint 2013 documents. Both MicroType 6 and CheckPro include instructor utilities that enable teachers to indicate preferences for the way the programs will work with their classes. In addition, the programs can generate detailed lesson, timed-writing, and summary reports to track students' progress.
About the Author
South-Western Educational Publishing, a partner within the leading Cengage Learning, offers the most extensive selection of Business Education materials on the market today for secondary and higher education as well as corporate and retail business environments. For more than 100 years, South-Western has assembled expert authorship to deliver best-in-class business learning content to equip individuals with the tools and resources necessary to excel and maintain professional success.
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"The most significant strengths of MicroType are the order and organization of the lessons (I like one left hand and one right hand key in each lesson), some of the games (specifically Key-A-Shot and Connect It), the movies, the class preference choices (I like the option of changing between single and double spacing in timings, in the teacher utility section, and the use of color graphics in the lessons.""I do believe that MicroType is a great supplement to the textbook activities. I have always felt that South-Western Publishing Company has offered great textbooks and supplementary materials in the business education field. I think South-Western is the leader in keyboarding instruction materials."