Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing Deluxe 17 [OLD VERSION]
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Software Reviews of Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing Deluxe 17 [OLD VERSION]
Customer Review: Do not buy this program
Summary: 1 Stars
Mavis Beacon is terrible. This review will be short because I still don't know how to type. This is a very crude program with lots if glitches. It "forgets to teach you entire lessons. You can't find these lessons and access them on your own. You can't go back in its History function and repeat areas you have trouble with. It quizes on keys it hasn't taught you. It is just as bad on Windows as Mac. There must be something better out there.Customer Review: Great Typing Tutor
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a tremendous tool for learning or improving, sharpening your typing skills. It is economical priced!Customer Review: Installation on Mac Mars Otherwise Good Software
Summary: 4 Stars
My son is eleven and is just starting to use computers. I thought typing software would start him on a lifetime of good typing habits. I chose Mavis Beacon because of the longstanding reputation. Once we got it to work the way I wanted, the actual lessons and games work fine and he is learning to touch type nicely. The kids' setting moves at a pretty reasonable pace for his skill (minimal) and age.
The installation engine for this software looks like something left over from 1979. It gives no feedback about the only choices (full or minimal install) and is not "Mac-like" in any way. The biggest problem I had has to do with the multiuser aspect of the Mac OS X system. I wanted to install the software into the main Applications folder and then let my son use it on his parental-controlled user account. It took me nearly an hour two times to get it to play nice with both multiuser and parental limitations on my desktop and laptop machines. The problem has to do with permissions, which default to read only in all accounts but the main administrator's account. This generates error messages because it can't save your work and progress in those other accounts. I finally figured out that I had to go to the User - accountname - Shared - Boderbund folder and change permissions to let everyone have read-write access to the personal work files and folders. Just for good measure I changed the permissions on the program itself. Now everyone is happy and my son can learn to type in his own account space without having access to my work and financial records.
For a program of this popularity and age, I would expect a better installation experience. I know I'm not the only one having problems, but for us it did turn out OK in the end. My twenty years as a Mac power user came in handy. If you are just doing a straight-forward installation in your own account, it probably will work fine.
Customer Review: NOT for the beginer
Summary: 1 Stars
I am trying to learn how to type properly. This program goes waaay to fast for the beginer. So, if you don't need to learn how to type, then why buy this product at all? I feel like this program is trying to teach me how to type in one day - rush, rush. Typing is based on the principle of muscle memory, and one or two days is just way to fast!!Customer Review: Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought this program for my husband, he used to have a former version for PC.
He likes it very much, it is easy to follow and lets him work at his own pace.