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Tab buttons for 1, 10, 100, 1000. Purpose?
Could someone in a few words describe what the purpose is of some buttons that are on a 5th row, a row above the number keys? These keys, which I think are for tabbing, are marked 1, 10, 100 and 1000.
I have 2 standard typewriters that have them. I'd play with them to find out what they're for but both aren't working just yet.
- KatLondon
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Re: Tab buttons for 1, 10, 100, 1000. Purpose?
They're for when you have to type out columns of figures - as so many poor office workers, who used these office standards, used to have to do.
- colrehogan
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Re: Tab buttons for 1, 10, 100, 1000. Purpose?
Over in the World of Typewriters section of this site is a topic called Film Links and the third video about advanced typing techniques has a brief section about the use of the decimal tabulator keys that you described.
Smith Premier typewriters are cool!
- fingertapper
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Re: Tab buttons for 1, 10, 100, 1000. Purpose?
colrehogan wrote:
Over in the World of Typewriters section of this site is a topic called Film Links and the third video about advanced typing techniques has a brief section about the use of the decimal tabulator keys that you described.
Thanks for point that out, colrehogan. What a great video!
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