Instead of pushing the existing type along as he had expected, however, he is aghast to see that the fresh typing is actually deleting the existing text as he types. He has done this many times before so he positions the cursor in the required place and types. He returns to a paragraph he has already typed to insert some text he missed out (say, putting the word 'Wednesday' after 'Sheffield'). Our novice may have familiarised himself with the basics of Word and can type away quite merrily, but then one day it happens. But diving straight into something new because the basic functions are easy to perform is perhaps not the best route as there are always hidden glitches that could pop up, so some form of proper grounding is the best way forward.Ī good example that has perplexed many a novice is the Overtype function. The keyboard set up was pretty much the same and it was simply a matter of typing onto a screen rather than paper. Those who jumped ship from mechanical to electronic typing found the changeover fairly easy to deal with. The typewriter had come up against a rival it simply could not fight off and, just as CDs all but put an end to vinyl records and the arrival of the tea bag caused mass redundancies among the nation's tealeaf readers, the old Remmington was consigned to the attic, another victim of progress. Sales of correction fluid plummeted as on-screen editing became the norm. That cottage industry boomed and not long before her death in 1980, she sold the company for 47.5 million dollars.Īnd it was probably the perfect time to sell, for as the eighties advanced the typewriter became an endangered species, driven out by the unstoppable march of the far more efficient word processor. She set up a cottage industry, making and selling her product, which was originally called Mistake Out, but which she later renamed Liquid Paper. She experimented at home, mixing her concoctions in a food blender, and her early efforts were soon in demand in the office where she worked. She knew that artists often painted over their mistakes and so she figured it must be possible to develop a type of paint to mask typing errors. Just after World War Two Bette Nesmith Graham was a single mother who was employed as a typist, but she was also something of an artist. The main piece of trivia associated with the show (apart from the fact that most of the backing tracks on the Monkees albums were not played by the Monkees at all, but by a band called Candy Store Prophets) was that the mother of guitarist Mike Nesmith (the one in the hat) invented correction fluid and it is a genuine rags-to-riches story. One of the must-watch TV shows from my childhood was The Monkees the completely madcap adventures of a pop group comprising three Americans and a young Englishman.
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