Learning to Type Better and Faster, and Have Fun Doing It

By Mario V. Farina

This book is for you if you do a good deal of typing using Microsoft Word in your personal or business life. If you’re already a skilled typist, this book will enhance your craft; if not so skilled, or if you are handicapped in your typing skill, I feel this book will increase the quality of what you type and also improve your typing speed. As a bonus, in addition to these benefits, you’ll have fun learning the techniques I offer in this book.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mario V. Farina
• Release date: Jun 6, 2015
• ISBN: 9781311123411

Mario V. Farina

Mario V Farina has worked all his life, from age 18 to 90. He worked for the American Locomotive Company, served in the U. S. Army during WWII, was employed at General Electric. He taught computers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. After leaving his position with RPI, he became employed with the State Labor Department of New York. He’s a car buff, a pun creator, and a computer enthusiast. He wrote textbooks for the programming languages COBOL and FORTRAN and wrote a book of puns and short stories called, “A Little Light Reading,” as well as over 20 other books. Several of his books were translated into other languages. This is his first foray into the world of digital publishing, with the help of his computer tutor ([e-mail]).

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Learning to Type Better and Faster, and Have Fun Doing It

Mario V. Farina

Copyright © 2015 by Mario V. Farina

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Farina, Mario V.

Learning to Type Better and Faster, and Have Fun Doing It – Enhancing Your Typing Using Abbreviations

First Printing 2015

I dedicate this book to Maryellen, who, over a period of many years, having been Ann's and my friend, has displayed an incomparable level of affection, kindness, intelligence, charm, caring, and loyalty toward us.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Lesson 1. Getting Started

Lesson 2. How to Create Brevies

Lesson 3. Conflicts

Lesson 4. Dropping the Last Letter, Part 1

Lesson 5. Dropping the Last Letter, Part 2

Lesson 6. Dropping the Last Letter, Part 3

Lesson 7. Dropping the Last Letter, Part 4

Lesson 8. Dropping the Last Letter, Part 5

Lesson 9. Dropping the Last Letter, Part 6

Lesson 10. Dropping the Last Letter, Candidates for Additional Words

Lesson 11. Using Prefixes

Lesson 12. The Prefix be

Lesson 13. The Prefix com

Lesson 14. The Prefix con

Lesson 15. The Prefix de

Lesson 16. The Prefix ex

Lesson 17. The Prefix in

Lesson 18. The Prefix pre

Lesson 19. The Prefixes per and pur

Lesson 20. The Prefix re

Lesson 21. The Prefix sub

Lesson 22. The Prefix trans

Lesson 23. The Prefix un

Lesson 24. The Prefix dis

Lesson 25. The Prefix im

Lesson 26. Using Suffixes in Creating Brevies

Lesson 27. The Suffix ing

Lesson 28. The Suffix ness

Lesson 29. The Suffix tion

Lesson 30. The Suffix sion

Lesson 31. The Suffix en

Lesson 32. The Suffix al

Lesson 33. The Suffix ble

Lesson 34. The Suffix ment

Lesson 35. The Suffix ful

Lesson 36. The Suffix ic

Lesson 37. The Suffix ed

Lesson 38. The Suffixes ar, er and or

Lesson 39. The Suffix ous

Lesson 40. The Suffix ture

Lesson 41. Brevies Created from Words Having Prefixes and Suffixes

Lesson 42. Brevies Made from Completing the Second Word

Lesson 43. Using One-Click Words

Lesson 44. Brevies for Frequently Used Phrases and Sentences

Lesson 45. Forming the Past Tense of Verbs

Lesson 46. Creating Brevies for Plural Nouns

Lesson 47. Correcting Errors in Grammar

Lesson 48. A Plan for the Future

Introduction

This book introduces a system that has to do with enhancing the typing you do. It’s a system of typing that uses a great many abbreviations. I’ve coined the word, brevy for a single abbreviation and the word brevies for several, or many, of them.

This book is for you if you do a good deal of typing using Microsoft Word in your personal or business life. If you’re already a skilled typist, this book will enhance your craft; if not so skilled, or if you are handicapped in your typing skill, I feel this book will increase the quality of what you type and also improve your typing speed. As a bonus, in addition to these benefits, you’ll have fun learning the techniques I offer in this book.

Microsoft Word employs a file named AutoCorrect that monitors your work as you type. This file has the ability to correct your work if you inadvertently misspell certain troublesome words. Here are some examples. If you type the word agresive incorrectly, as I have just done, the AutoCorrect file will change what you type to aggressive. If you type alraedy, the AutoCorrect file will immediately correct the spelling and type already. If you type havebeen without the space between the words, the AutoCorrect file will change what you have typed to have been. These changes are fast and automatic. You may not even know that you made a mistake.

AutoCorrect is not a mind reader. It doesn’t know all the ways that people can make mistakes as they type but it does its best to correct the mistakes that a lot of people make.

In this book I show that AutoCorrect can do much more than simply correct the errors that you might make. It can help make you a better speller and faster typist.

The main skill you’ll learn in this book is that of using the AutoCorrect file to create brevies for words and phrases you use often. For example, when you wish to type words like about, choice, and woman, you’ll save time by typing abou, choic, and woma instead. In these examples, note that each of the words has dropped its last letter. These shortened words have become what I call brevies. When you type these brevies, AutoCorrect will change them to about, choice, and woman. This is the way you’ll see them on the screen. The changes will happen so quickly, there will be no interruptions in what you are typing; therefore, you’ll get the words on the screen with fewer keystrokes in less time.

This system will also allow prefixes in words help you type faster. For example certain prefixes in words can be shortened. Such words as before, compare, and extreme can