Franklin BOOKMAN GWH-2055 User manual

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Electronic Publishers
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ELECTRONIC BOOK CARD
B OO K MAN
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The PDR Family Guide to
WOMEN’S HEALTH
and Prescription Drugs
™
®
USER’S GUIDE
GWH-2055

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Contents
Using your new PDR® Family Guide
to Women’s Health and Prescription
Drugs™
book card, you can read
more than 40 chapters dealing with
women and their specific health is-
sues. You can also learn about more
than 350 brand and generic drugs
that are often prescribed to women.
In addition, this electronic book has
powerful features that let you search
for any word and instantly go to
cross-references.
Key Guide ........................................................................ 2
Installing a Book Card ..................................................... 3
Selecting a Book ............................................................. 4
Using the Color Keys....................................................... 4
Viewing a Demonstration ................................................ 5
Changing the Settings ..................................................... 5
Reading Health Topics ..................................................... 6
Reading Drug Profiles ..................................................... 7
Searching for Words ....................................................... 9
Highlighting Search Words............................................ 10
Reading Cross-references ............................................. 11
Using the Index ............................................................. 12
Sending Words Between Books .................................... 12
Book Card Care ............................................................. 13
Index.............................................................................. 15

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Key Guide
Color Keys
HEALTH
(red) Displays the Health menu.
DRUG
(green) Displays the Drugs
menu.
INDEX
(yellow) Displays the Index.
SEARCH
(blue) Displays and clears
the word search screen.
Function Keys
BACK
Backs up to the previous screen.
CAP
Shifts keys to type capitals and
punctuation.
CARD Exits the selected book.
CLEAR Clears a word search and
highlights the Contents menu.
ENTER
Selects a menu item, starts a
word search, or highlights a
word in the text.
HELP
Displays help messages.
MENU Toggles between the main
menus and text.
ON/OFF
Turns your BOOKMAN on or off.
?*
At a menu, displays the full title
of an item. At text, displays the
Outline location. Shifted, types
an asterisk to stand for a series
of letters in a search word.
Direction Keys
Scroll line by line.
DN
UP
Scroll screen by screen.
SPACE
Page down.
Key Combinations1
✩
+
DN
or
UP
At text, go the next or
previous section.
CAP
+ or At a menu, go to the
top or bottom item. At text, go the next
or previous section.
✩
+
BACK
From a submenu, go back to
the main menus.
✩
+ CARD Send a highlighted word be-
tween books.
✩
+
ENTER
From the Health or Drugs
menu, go directly to the related
text. At text, highlight the first vis-
ible cross-reference ( ).
1Hold
✩
while pressing the other key

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Key Guide (cont’d.)
Quick Keys2
D
Go to the Dosage section.
E
Go to the Side Effects section.
F
Go to the Most Important Fact section.
G
Go to the General section.
I
Go to the Food and Drug Interac-
tions
section.
N
Go to the Do Not Take If section.
O
Go to the Overdosage section.
P
Go to the Prescribed For section.
S
Go to the Use in Pregnancy or
Breastfeeding
section.
T
Go to the How to Take section.
W
Go to the Special Warnings section.
➤ About Screen Illustrations
Some screen illustrations in this
User’s Guide may differ from what
you see on screen. This doesn’t
mean that your BOOKMAN is
malfunctioning.
Warning: Never install or remove a
book card when your BOOKMAN is
turned on. If you do, information that
you’ve entered in its built-in book, as
well as in any other installed book
cards, will be erased
.
1. Turn off your BOOKMAN.
2. Turn your BOOKMAN over.
3. Align the tabs of the book
card with the notches in a
slot.
4. Press the book card down
until it snaps into place.
Installing a Book Card
➤ Removing a Book Card
Warning: When you remove a
book card to install another, infor-
mation that you entered in the
removed book card will be erased.
2The Quick keys perform these functions only
when you’re reading a drug profile.

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Selecting a Book
Once you have installed the book
card in your BOOKMAN, you can
select which book you want to use.
1. Turn on your BOOKMAN.
2. Press
CARD
.
3. Press or to highlight a
book symbol.
4. Press
ENTER
to select it.
➤ Resuming Where You Left Off
You can turn off your BOOKMAN
at any time. When you turn on
your BOOKMAN again, the
screen that you last viewed ap-
pears.
Using the Color Keys
T he red, green, yellow, and blue keys
on the top row of the BOOKMAN
keyboard change their functions ac-
cording to which book you’re currently
using.
If you’re using the built-in book, the
color keys function as labeled on the
BOOKMAN keyboard. If you’re using
an installed book card, the color keys
function as labeled on that card.
Remember, when you’re using a
book card, the color keys function as
labeled on that card, not as on the
keyboard.
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Viewing a Demonstration
➤ Help is Always at Hand
You can read a help message at vir-
tually any screen by pressing
HELP
.
Press or
DN
to read the mes-
sage. Press
BACK
to exit it.
To read a tutorial about how to
use this book, select
Tutorial from
the Setup menu.
Before you begin, you may want to
see a brief demonstration of how to
use this book. Simply install the book
card and then follow these steps.
1. Press
CLEAR
.
2. Use the arrow keys to
highlight the Setup menu.
3. Press to highlight View Demo.
4. Press
ENTER
to start the dem-
onstration.
5. To stop the demonstration,
press
CLEAR
.
Changing the Settings
Using the Setup menu, you can adjust
the type size, shutoff time, and screen
contrast.
The type size sets how large the char-
acters appear on screen. The shutoff
time sets how long your BOOKMAN
stays on if you forget to turn it off. The
screen contrast sets how light or dark
the screen appears.
1. Press
CLEAR
.
2. Use the arrow keys to high-
light Set Type Size, Set
Shutoff, or Set Contrast on
the Setup menu.
A slanted arrow indicates a submenu.
3. Press
ENTER
.
4. Press or to highlight a
new setting.
To leave the setting unchanged,
press
BACK
.
5. Press
ENTER
to select it.

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Reading Health Topics
It’s easy to read about women’s
health topics. Here’s how.
1. Press
HEALTH
(the red key). Or
press
CLEAR
, highlight Health,
and then press
ENTER
.
2. Highlight a chapter title. For ex-
ample, highlight 3 PMS: Sorting
Fact from Fiction.
To highlight a chapter title, scroll
down to it or type its number.
To type a chapter number, hold
✩
and press the numbered keys. To
undo a number, press
BACK
.
To go to the bottom or top of a
menu, hold
CAP
and press or
.
To see the full title of any menu item,
highlight the item and then press
?*
.
3. Press
ENTER
.
4. Highlight a section title and
then press
ENTER
to select it.
For example, select Deciding
Whether You Have It.
To highlight a section title, scroll to
it or type its first few letters.
Note: Some sections have sub-
sections. If needed, select a sub-
section title in the same way that
you selected a section title.
5. Use ,
DN
, or
SPACE
to scroll.
6. To go to the next or previous
section, hold
✩
and press
DN
or
UP
.
7. To go back to the menu, press
BACK
.
8. Press
CLEAR
when finished.
Reading Health Topics

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Reading Health Topics Reading Drug Profiles
If you know the brand or generic
name of a drug, here’s how to find its
drug profile.
1. Press
DRUG
(the green key).
Or press
CLEAR
, highlight Drugs,
and then press
ENTER
.
2. Press
ENTER
to select Drug
Profiles.
3. Type a brand or generic drug
name. For example, type Tylenol
®
.
To undo a letter, press
BACK
.
4. When the drug is high-
lighted, press
ENTER
.
5. Highlight a section (for ex-
ample, Most Important Fact)
and then press
ENTER
.
➤ Where in the Book Are You?
When you’re reading the text of a
health topic or drug profile, you
can see the Outline location of the
current text by pressing
?*
.
To scroll to the higher levels of the
Outline, use .
To display the full title of an item,
which is especially useful when the
title ends in ellipses, press
?*
.
Press
BACK
to go back to the
text you were just reading. Or
press
ENTER
to go to the text of
the highlighted item.
➤ Follow the Arrows
The flashing arrows at the right of
the screen show which arrow keys
you can press to scroll through the
menus or text.

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Reading Drug Profiles
To highlight a section, scroll down
or type its first few letters.
6. Use ,
DN
, or
SPACE
to scroll.
7. To go to the next or previous
section, hold
✩
and press
DN
or
UP
.
Or use the Quick keys. To learn how,
read “Using the Quick Keys” in the
next column.
8. Press
CLEAR
when finished.
➤ If You Misspell a Drug Name
If you misspell a drug name while
typing at the Drugs menu, the spell-
ing correction mode appears.
Type the remainder of the name to
the best of your knowledge. Then
press
ENTER
to see the corrections.
Then highlight a correction and press
ENTER
to see its drug profile.
Reading Drug Profiles
➤ Using the Quick Keys
When you’re reading a drug profile,
you can quickly go to any section of
the profile by using these keys.
To go to... Press...
General
G
Prescribed For
P
Most Important Fact
F
How to Take
T
Side Effects
E
Do Not Take If
N
Special Warnings
W
Food and Drug Interactions
I
Use in Pregnancy
or Breastfeeding
S
Dosage
D
Overdosage
O
➤ A Shortcut to Drug Profiles
To go directly from a drug name
on the Drugs menu to its drug
profile, hold
✩
and press
ENTER
.