LOL! I think my grandfather still does, but he's about the only person I know off still using one. Lol!

My mom's a doctor, and two years ago her office staff forced her to buy some computers. She still refuses to touch one and if she has to type something up herself will either use an old typewriter or give it to me or my sisters. She has no voice mail, no answering machine, can't turn on the TV, and of course no email.

Yet she is one of the best surgeons in the New York area. Go figure...

You raise a VERY valid point (and I like how you looked up something that most people don't know and shared i there!). Of course, the MLA Style Manual is (and perhaps always will be) behind the times when it comes to writing and publishing technology. But I also see their logic: they rightfully assume that many writers/scholars/students don't really know how to set tabs or slide the rulers on their word processors (let alone how to set tabs on a manual typewriter), and that they still apply a "# of keys pressed" mindset (one they may have even learned from a "typing" class) to the art of espacement. It also saves the authors of the MLA manual the trouble of explaining how to do it in different software types, or the politically troublesome decision to align themselves solely with the dominant software, Microsoft Word. The typewriter technology is responsible for the invention of the tab to begin with -- and both our computer keyboards and the manuscript formats for print we all use are modeled off it -- so it stands to reason that they might do this. But I bet they'll stop doing it soon. Either that, or the MLA will become an anacronism and we'll all start using a MS Word Style Manual instead.

I hate MS Word. I hate that it re-arranges letters in my words, and capitalizes things, and hyperlinks stuff. I could turn it off, but I don't... but it shouldn't be on in the first place.

Above all else, the tabs are completely ridiculous, always resetting themselves for no reason. Someone needs to challenge them, to finally make something a little more sane. Perhaps a program called "Old School Typewriter"

I am attempting to type a research paper in MLA format but am encountering some difficulties. I can find no guidlines for what I'm trying to do. If I want to begin my paper with a long quotation, what do I do? How do I format that?