25 Typing Short Cuts (brochure)

TIME AND
2 5 ENERGY SAVING SHORT CUTS

... FOR YOU

Fast “stroking” is essential, but it alone doesn’t insure fast work. What typing
short cuts do you know? Do you know how much time can be saved when correcting
a mistake? If you are typing on cards, do you use the easy way of feeding the cards
into the machine?

The suggestions in this book, called “typing shortcuts’’ because they save valuable
typing time, are collected from the experience of thousands of successful and
efficient typists to provide answers to these and many other questions. We call
them “typing shortcuts” because each one will save valuable time for you.

1 TYPING POSTCARDS

A little practice on this shortcut will enable you to type
both address and message on a postcard without touch-
ing the card! After typing one side of the card, give the
platen a quick turn. The card will flip back, strike the
paper table, and then drop into position behind the
platen. Another turn of the platen puts the card in
position to write the other side. And a further refine-
ment is to give the platen an extra quick turn at the
end, sailing the card over the back of the machine into
a receiving basket. Five minutes of practice does it!

2 HOW TO USE THE RATCHET DETENT LEVER

The Ratchet Detent Lever, or “automatic line finder,”
is a standard typewriter feature that can save you a
great dea! of guessing and erasing. It “holds the line”
for you. By engaging the Ratchet Detent Lever, the
platen may be revolved freely to write subscripts or
other characters such as H.O, 90°, etc. When disen-
gaged, the platen will be moved to the same relative
spacing position it was in before using the detent lever.
For instance, write H,O, using the detent lever. Snap
the Ratchet Detent Lever and notice how the platen
returns automatically.

3 MAKING CORRECTIONS

Even the best typists make an occasional mistake.
Before erasing, the carriage should be moved to. the
extreme right or left to prevent erasure grit from fall-
ing into the machine. When typing corrections, the
keys should be tapped lightly until the color of the
correction matches that of the original writing.

When correcting carbon copies, the revisions on the
copies will often be much fainter than the rest of the
typing. If you try to match the type on the carbon
copy, the corrected letter on the original will be
darkened. The correction should be made as follows:
After the necessary erasure has been made, adjust the
ribbon control indicator to stencil position. Position
the carriage and strike the proper key. This will leave
the impression on the carbon copies, but the original
will still be blank. Then switch the control indicator
back to the ribbon, position the carriage, and again
strike the proper key. This will permit a perfect match
of the typing on the original and will leave the typing
on the carbon copies with an equal density of color.

4 SIGNING STENCILS

Perfectly-typed stencils are often ruined by tearing
when a signature is written on them witha stylus. This
can be avoided by using a ballpoint stylus and placing
a piece of cellophane (the cellophane from a package
of cigarettes will do) over the signature space. Write
directly on the cellophane, with no fear of tearing.

5 TYPING MANUSCRIPTS

To insure that each page of a manuscript ends on the
same line, prepare a strip of paper with lines numbered
vertically and wind around the left end of the type-
writer platen. Fasten with scotch tape. Feed each
page into the machine in alignment with “I’’. Notice
the number on which you end the first manuscript
page and finish each succeeding sheet on the same
line. The pages of a completed manuscript may be
numbered by “fanning” a pack into the machine and
back-spacing as you turn platen to number edges.

6 CORRECTING BOUND MANUSCRIPTS

Back feeding can be used to correct pages bound at
the top without removing the binding. Feed a sheet
of paper into the machine in the usual way until the
edge appears above the writing point.

Insert the sheet to be corrected between this edge and
the platen. Turn back the platen to the desired
point. If text runs parallel to binding, insertions or
corrections can be made in any section of the material.

7 TAKING “RUSH” TELEGRAMS AND MEMOS

When a hurry-up call comes to “take a telegram” or
type a brief memorandum, it is not necessary to
remove the letter you are writing from the typewriter.
Simply follow these steps:

1. Back feed the paper that is already in the machine
until the paper shows a top margin of about two
inches.

2. Insert the first sheet of the telegram behind the
paper away from you and against the paper table.

3. For carbons insert the second sheet of telegram
against the coated side of the carbon paper (be-
tween the carbon and your letter’s second sheet
and similarly for each carbon you have in your
machine). Thus, you position the original sheet and
the 2nd, 3rd, etc. sheets of the telegrams so that
they are in direct opposition to the sheets of the
letter.

4. Now turn the platen knob so that the telegram
sheets are in position to receive the message.

5. After writing the telegram, back feed until your
telegram blanks may be removed from the type-
writer.

6. Forward feed to the point at which you stopped
writing your letter and continue.

§ USE A LINE-A-TIME

The Line-a-time holds copy directly in front of the
operator at eye level. This assures easier reading, pro-
motes proper posture, and reduces eye strain. The
conveniently placed hand lever quickly moves copy
into correct reading position, line by line.

9 carson SHORT CUTS

A sheet of heavier paper placed at the back of a carbon
pack will prevent manifold paper from creasing and
“treeing” with carbon lines. Separating carbons from
paper is made easy by adjusting carbons so that they
protrude slightly from bottom of the writing paper,
with one corner of the carbon cut off at the top. By
holding the ends of the carbons and the corner of the
writing paper where the carbons have been cut, the
sheets are easily separated.

To insert red figures or letters in the carbon copy of a
report without removing the report from the type-
writer, simply insert a small piece of red carbon behind
the black carbon in the desired position, type the red
copy, remove the red carbon, and proceed with the
work.

10 OTHER TABULATOR USES.

The tabulator on your typewriter should not be used
for statistical and columnar typing alone. Among its
uses for standard correspondence and manuscript
typing are the following:

1. Placement of the date at the upper right hand
corner of letters.

2. Making paragraph indentations.

3. Placement of the complimentary close and title
line in letters.

11 use a 10-KEY
DECIMAL TABULATOR

If you devote more than 30% of your time to statistical
and columnar work, your typewriter should be

equipped with a 10-Key Decimal Tabulator. With
this device, instant tabulation can be made to the
exact writing point in each column, whether the figure
to be typed has one digit or many.

12 CHAIN FEEDING (FRONT)

Frequently you may have work to do that involves
the feeding of small cards into the machine. If your
typewriter is equipped with a Remington Card Platen
your task is simple. If it is not, you can facilitate your
work considerably by chain feeding. To chain feed
from the front of the platen, use the following pro-
cedure:

Crease a pleat across a large sheet of paper to form a
pocket for the card. Insert the pleated sheet into the
machine. Drop a card into the pleat, feed backwards
to the writing point, and proceed to type card. Then
feed backwards and insert the next card so that the
bottom of it will be held in place by the card which
has just been completed. Each succeeding card will
thus be held firmly against the platen by the card
preceding it, and the cards will pile up automatically,
in order, on the paper table.

13 CHAIN FEEDING (sack)

Chain feeding can save much time not only in writing
cards or short form letters, but also in addressing en-
velopes. To chain feed from the back of the platen,
insert the next piece to be typed between the first
item and the paper table before removing the first.
Then a single twirl of the platen knob removes one
paper and automatically brings the next one into
position to be typed.

When many envelopes have to be addressed, prepare
a chain of three before typing the first. Open the
envelope flap before inserting it into the machine to
make insertion easier and to produce more even type.

14 CORRECT TYPEWRITER AND CHAIR HEIGHT

For fast, easy, accurate typing, and savings in energy,
the forearms and hands should be almost parallel to
the slope of the keyboard—an angle of about 30 de-:
grees. For the average person the machine should
usually be between 28 and 30 inches from the floor
and the chair seat height usually between 16 and 18
inches.

Virtually all champion typists write with their type-
writers about 30 inches from the floor, a height that
promotes a speedy stroke and lessens fatigue. Thou-
sands of typists use wooden lift boxes to increase
typewriter height and have noted a reduction in eye,
neck, and back strain. Type impressions on original
copies are more uniform and carbon copies are clearer.
You can use an inverted desk box as a typewriter
platform and experiment with raising your machine.

15 SETTING MARGINS INTUITIVELY

Learn to set your margins intuitively by studying the
three standard letter sizes: short, medium-length, and
long. You will soon find that any length letter can be
placed in one of these categories. Once you have be-
come accustomed to setting margins for these three
basic letter classifications, margin setting will become
an easy, automatic job for you. For sample copies of
letters showing the three standard letter lengths—
which will aid you in learning to place your letters
intuitively—write to the School Department, Type-
writer Division, Remington Rand Inc., 315 Fourth
Ave., New York 10, N.Y.

16 FEEDING CARBON PACK

An envelope or short piece of paper folded over the
top of a pack of stationery and carbon sheets helps to
feed a heavy pack into the machine evenly, and saves
the trouble of aligning the sheets after they are in the
machine. Another method is to wrap a sheet of letter
size paper completely around the platen and insert
the carbon pack between the open flap of the paper and
the platen and feed through in the normal way. In
feeding a single carbon, insert the original and second
sheet, turn the platen about an inch, then insert the
carbon paper between.

17 INSERTING LETTERS

If you omit the last letter of a word and do not dis-
cover your error until the rest of the line has been
written, a correction can be made without erasing.
Position the carriage at the space following the word.
Depress the back spacer half way and type in the miss-
ing letter.

It is also possible to substitute a longer word for a
shorter, such as “have” for “had”. Erase the incorrect
word. Position the carriage where the first letter had
been written. Space once. Hold the back spacer all the
way down. Type the first letter. For each subsequent
letter of the word, space twice, hold down the back
spacer and type the letter.

To “‘spread’’ or balance a shorter word in the space
used for a longer word, such as “had” for “have”,
position the carriage where the first letter had been
written. Space twice and hold down the back spacer.
Type the first letter. For each subsequent letter,
space twice, hold down the back spacer and type
the letter.

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1S Last Line corRECTIONS

Here’s a precaution that will assure accurate correc-
tions if you make a mistake when typing near the
bottom of a page or a carbon pack. When the back of
the paper or pack is about one inch above the rear
feed rolls, insert a sheet of bond paper between the
rear feed rolls and the last sheet of paper. Then, if a
mistake is made, it will be easy to roll the pages back
until the erasure can be made against the platen, thus
avoiding the danger of moving the paper out of line
or rolling it out of the feed rolls.

19 CENTERING HEADINGS

The center of any width sheet can be found by insert-
ing the sheet and adding the scale readings of the
right and left edges. Half of this number is the center
of the paper.

Once the center has been found it’s easy to balance
headings by using the backspace-centering method.
As an example take the word California. Center the
carriage at the midpoint of the paper, then backspace
once for each full pair of letters, saying the pairs to
yourself: “Ca li fo rn ia’. You are automatically at
the starting point. When there is an odd letter left
over, drop it. A Tab Key set at the paper center will
enable you to tabulate to the center at any time for
similar width sheets provided the paper guide is kept
at the same point.

20 vrawine LInes

Ruled forms and stencils can be easily made on Rem-
ington KMC typewriters. A pencil, pen, or loop stylus
may be inserted in the holes of the card holders or
aligning scale, and the platen rotated for vertical lines
and moved from right to left for horizontal lines.

2! HOW TO GET EVEN RIGHT MARGINS

Work requiring straight right-hand margins may be
typed by the following method. Type up a copy of the
text, using normal word breaks (‘‘di-vision’”, “‘re-

mind”, etc.) to make all lines as closely uniform in
length as possible. Draw vertical lines at the ends of
the shortest and longest lines. Usually the variation
will be four or five characters. Add half the variation
(if the variation is an odd number, add the fraction,
that is, if the variation is five, take three as half) to
the innermost line. This line will be the right hand
margin. Follow the instructions for contracting and
spreading words (Short Cut No. 17) to make each line
end on this margin. If a line needs two characters to

fill it out to the margin, “spread” two words. If a char-
acter must be dropped for the line to fit, contract a
word.

22 TYPING NARROW LABELS

Take a regular 8” x 5” card or larger. Cut a line ap-
proximately 14” shorter than the width of the label
you desire to write, preferably with a razor blade. At
the end of the cut in the card make two little notches
approximately 14” wide or less. This will form a pocket
in which the label can be inserted. At this point fit the
card and label into the machine in the same way you

would a regular sheet of paper. It is also possible to fit
a number.of these labels at one time by making several
pockets on the cards.

23 CHANGING RIBBONS

Here are four general rules for changing ribbons on
any machine. The specific procedures will vary for
different makes of machines, but these rules should be
of help to you.

a. Lift the top cover. Study the course of travel of
the old ribbon and wind the remaining ribbon on
the spool to be removed.

b. Set new ribbon spool in place.

c. Unreel 8 to 10 inches of the new ribbon and attach
the end to the er1pty reel.

d. Raise the ribbon guide (put ribbon indicator on
red, lock carriage in upper case, and collide two
keys) and insert ribbon in the guide.

24 MAKING SPECIAL CHARACTERS

Characters possibly not found on the keyboard of your
machine can be made by overprinting standard char-
acters as follows:

Paragraph Mark.... )( ..Parentheses

DUO. eee *% .Aandvy

Division sign....... + ..Colon and hyphen
Dollarsign 22-5. 5 $9 5 and.

Pound Sterlingsign.. £ ..fandt

Gedillanve:s asa) ¢ ..cand comma
Exclamation point... ! ..Apostrophe and period
Equation sign....... = ..Hyphen—turn ratchet.

detent lever slightly

25 AVOID HYPHENIZATION

Many operators have found that their typing is made
considerably easier if they establish a policy of never
hyphenating a word at the end of a line. You will be
agreeably surprised to find how quickly you can learn
to get along without hyphenating words at the ends of
lines. You will also be surprised to find how much time
is saved when you no longer have to check syllabica-
tion in the dictionary each time you're not sure of the
proper division of a word. Most operators find that
after experimenting for a week or two they can write
98% of their letters without having to divide a single
word at the end of a line.

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This booklet was prepared with the aid of one of the world’s fastest typists, Miss Hortense Stollnitz,
whose official record is 159.1 words per minute for one hour of continuous copying from unfamiliar
material. Miss Stollnitz has typed as many as 314 words in one minute by writing a memorized
sentence at the astonishing rate of 17 strokes per second. These international records were made on
Remington Rand Typewriters which Miss Stollnitz, a renowned consultant and recognized authority,

uses exclusively. She prefers Remingtons for their speed, ease of operation and beautiful printwork.

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