Franklin Webster's Spelling Corrector NCS-100 User manual

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USER’S GUIDE
NCS-100
Web s t e r ’s
SPELLING CORRECTOR
MANUAL DEL USUARIO
CORRECTOR ORTOGRÁFICO
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Congratulations! You now own a powerful elec-
tronic spelling corrector that you can use at home,
work, or school. Using your new Webster’s Spelling
Corrector , you can...
• correct and check spellings,
• find missing letters in words,
• find prefixes, suffixes, and other parts of
words,
• find words that people often confuse,
• build words from letters, and
• play exciting and educational word games.
To learn how, follow the steps in this User’s Guide
using the examples shown or words that interest
you.
To learn even more, also read tips like the ones be-
low.
Introduction
✓Changing the Contrast
To adjust the screen contrast of your spelling
corrector, first turn it on and then press
CLEAR
. Then press or repeatedly until
the contrast suits you.
✓ Replacing the Battery
This spelling corrector uses one CR2032, 3-
volt lithium battery. Should you need to replace
the battery, remove the back cover of the spell-
ing corrector with a small screwdriver. Then in-
stall a new battery, with its plus sign facing
you, and replace the cover.

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Key Guide
Backs up (e.g., erase a letter).
Builds words from letters.
Clears to Ready for word .
Display Confusables®, if any.
Displays a brief demonstration.
Enters a word or selects an item.
Displays the games.
Displays help messages.
Turns this spelling corrector on or off.
Scrolls left or erases typed letters.
Scrolls up or types an apostrophe.
Scrolls down or types a period.
Scrolls right or types a space.
Types a? tostandforaletterinaword.
During a game, reveals a word.
Types an ✽to stand for a series of
letters. During a game, reveals a hint.
BACK
BUILD
CLEAR
CONF
DEMO
ENTER
GAMES
HELP
ON/OFF
✓Follow the Arrows
The flashing arrows at the right of the
screen show which arrow keys you can
press to view more text.
?
✽

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It’s easy to check or correct spellings. When
you enter a correct word, a list of similar words
appears. When you enter a misspelling, a list
of corrections appears. Follow these steps.
1. Type a word. To erase, press or
BACK
.
You cannot type capital letters, but capitals
are displayed in corrections.
2. Press
ENTER
.
The flashing arrow indicates more words.
3. Press repeatedly to view more words.
To find even more corrections, press
ENTER
twice.
4. Press
CLEAR
when finished.
Finding Spellings
✓Resuming Where You Left Off
If you forget to turn off this spelling correc-
tor, it turns off automatically in about two
minutes. When you turn it on again, the
screen that you last viewed appears.

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If you are uncertain how to spell a word, type
a question mark in place of each unknown
letter. A list of matching words will appear.
1. Type a word with question marks for letters.
2. Press
ENTER
.
3. Press to view more matching words.
4. Press
CLEAR
when finished.
Finding Letters in Words
✓Viewing a Demonstration
To see a brief demonstration of what this
spelling corrector can do, press
DEMO
. To
stop the demonstration, press
CLEAR
.
✓Help is Always at Hand
You can view a help message at virtually
any screen by pressing
HELP
. To exit a
help message, press
BACK
.

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You can find prefixes, suffixes, and other parts
of words by typing asterisks in words. Each as-
terisk can stand for any series of letters.
1. Type a word with one or more asterisks.
2. Press
ENTER
.
3. Press to view more matching words.
4. Press
CLEAR
when finished.
Finding Parts of Words
✓Tips for Finding Letters
• You can type both question marks and
asterisks in a word.
• You can type asterisks at the beginnings
of words, but the spelling corrector may
take a while to find matches.
•
You can use question marks to help solve
crossword puzzles and similar word games
by typing them in place of missing letters.

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Confusables are words that sound alike but
are spelled differently. When a question mark
flashes to the right of a word in a list, that word
has Confusables. Try this example.
1. Type
air and then press
ENTER
.
Notice the flashing question mark.
2. Press
CONF
to see its Confusables.
3. Press repeatedly to view more.
4. Press
CLEAR
when finished.
Finding Confusables®
✓AQuick Way to View Confusables
Simply type a word and press
CONF
. Its
Confusables, if any, will appear.
✓Viewing Long Words
Some words in lists are too long to fit on
the screen. To see the entire word, press
ENTER
. The rest of the word will automati-
cally scroll into view.

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To help solve anagrams and similar word
games, you can build words from letters by us-
ing the BUILD key.
1. Type letters.
2. Press
BUILD
.
3. Press to view more words.
4. Press
CLEAR
when finished.
Building Words from Letters
✓Typing Punctuation
You don’t need to type punctuation marks to
find spellings.
But if you want to type an apostrophe in a
word, press . To type a period, press .
Note, however, that punctuation marks can’t
begin a word.
✓Understanding the Skill Levels
The skill levels change the number of
guesses in Hangman and the minimum
number of letters ( Min size ) inAnagrams.

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Playing Anagrams
Anagrams challenges you to find the ana-
grams of words.An anagram is a word formed
from some or all the letters of another word.
1. Press
GAMES
.
2. Press or until you see
Anagrams
and then press
ENTER
.
3. Press or and then
ENTER
to select a skill level.
The
Min size is the minimum number of
letters the anagrams can have.
word anagrams to guess
4. Type an anagram and then press
ENTER
.
If the anagram is correct,
OK appears.
5. Enter more anagrams.
6. Press
*
to jumble the letters.
7. Press to view the used anagrams.
8. Press
?
and then repeatedly
to reveal all the anagrams.
9. Press
ENTER
to play a new round.