Franklin BOOKMAN MWD-2001 User manual

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Electronic Publishers
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ELECTRONIC BOOK CARD
B OO K MAN
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Dictionary
and Thesaurus
USER’S GUIDE
MWD-2001

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Contents
ings; save words to your User list; and
play three fun, educational word games.
Use your BOOKMAN to read this book
card. See “Installing Book Cards” to
learn how.
Welcome to the world of BOOKMAN!
With this
Dictionary & Thesaurus you
can find over 83,000 dictionary entries;
41,000 thesaurus entries with 496,000
synonyms; as well as correct misspell-
Installing a Book Card & Selecting a Book ..................... 3
Using the Color Keys & Changing Settings .................... 4
Viewing a Demonstration .............................................. 5
Finding Definitions ........................................................ 5
Finding Words in Definitions.......................................... 6
Finding Synonyms ......................................................... 6
Finding Spellings........................................................... 7
Finding Parts of Words .................................................. 8
Correcting Misspellings................................................. 8
Highlighting Words ........................................................ 9
Finding Confusables™ ................................................... 9
Reviewing Words........................................................... 10
Saving Words ................................................................ 10
Sending a Word Between Books .................................... 12
Changing Game Settings ............................................... 12
Playing the Games......................................................... 13
Copyrights & Patents..................................................... 16
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Direction Keys
Move in indicated direction.
SPACE
Types a space or pages down.
Star Key Combinations*
✩
+
CARD
Sendsawordbetweenbooks.
✩
+
DN
Shows next entry or match.
✩
+
UP
Shows previous entry or
match.
✩
+
C
Shows Confusables™.
✩
+
P
Shows the Path list.
✩
+
T
Shows thesaurus entries.
Color Keys
THES
(red) Shows thesaurus entries.
CONF
(green) Shows Confusables™.
GAMES
(yellow) Shows the games list.
LIST
(blue) ShowstheUserlistmenu.
Function Keys
BACK
Backs up and erases letters.
CAP
Shifts keys to type punctua-
tion.
CLEAR
Clears to Enter your word .
ENTER
Enters a search, selects a
menu item, or starts a highlight.
HELP
Shows help messages.
MENU
Shows the main menus.
CARD
Exits the selected book.
ON/OFF
Turns BOOKMAN on or off.
?✱
Types a ? to stand for an
unknown letter in a word;
shifted, types an
✽ to stand for
a series of unknown letters.
Key Guide
*Hold
✩
while pressing the other key.
➤ Understanding the Color Keys
The color keys (red, green, yellow, and
blue) perform the functions listed
above only for the BOOKMAN book
card described in this User’s Guide.
Other books have their own color key
functions, which are labelled on their
book cards and listed in their User’s
Guides. For more information, read
“Using the Color Keys.”
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Installing a Book Card
Warning: Never install or remove a
book card while your BOOKMAN is
turned on. If you do, information that you
entered in its built-in book and in an in-
stalled book will be erased.
1. Turn your BOOKMAN off.
2. Turn your BOOKMAN over.
3. Align the tabs on the book
card with the notches in the
slot.
4. Press the book card down
until it snaps into place.
Selecting a Book
Once you have installed a book card in
your BOOKMAN, you must select
which book you want to use.
1. Turn your BOOKMAN on.
2. Press CARD .
These are sample books.
3. Press or to highlight the
book you want to use.
4. Press ENTER to select it.
➤ Removing a Book Card
Warning: When you remove a book
card to install another, information
that you have entered in the removed
book card will be erased.
➤About Screen Illustrations
Some screen illustrations in this
User’s Guide may differ from what
you see on the actual screen. This
does not mean that your BOOK-
MAN is malfunctioning
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Using the Color Keys
The red, green, yellow, and blue keys on
your BOOKMAN change functions ac-
cording to which book is selected.
When the built-in book is selected, the
color keys function as labelled on the
BOOKMAN keyboard. When a book
card is selected, the color keys function
as labelled on that book card.
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Using the Setup menu, you can adjust the
fontsize,shutofftime,and screen contrast.
The font size changes the number of lines
of text that appear on screen. The shutoff
time is how long BOOKMAN stays on if
you forget to turn it off.
1. Press
CLEAR
.
2. Press MENU .
3. Press the arrow keys to
highlight the Setup menu.
4. Highlight Set Font, Set
Shutoff, or Set Contrast.
5. Press ENTER .
6. Highlight a setting.
Or press or if you selected
Set Contrast . To exit without
changing settings, press
BACK
.
7. Press ENTER to select it.
Changing Settings
➤Resuming Where You Left Off
You can turn off BOOKMAN at any
screen. When you turn BOOKMAN
on again, the screen that you last
viewed appears.
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Before you begin playing the games, you
may want to view a brief demonstration de-
scribinghow to use this book. Simply install
the book card and then follow these steps.
1. Press MENU and highlight the
Setup menu, if necessary.
2. Press to highlight View Demo.
3. Press ENTER to start the
demonstration.
4. To stop the demonstration at
any time, press
CLEAR
.
Finding Definitions
It’s easy to look up a word in this dictio-
nary. Simply type it and press ENTER . Try
this example.
1. Press
CLEAR
.
2. Type a word
(e.g., knowledge).
You cannot type capitals. To erase a
letter, press BACK .
3. Press ENTER .
This is a dictionary entry.
4. Press or SPACE to read.
5. Hold ✩and press
DN
to
view the next dictionary
entry alphabetically listed.
6. Press
CLEAR
when done.
Viewing a Demonstration
➤ Help is Always at Hand
You can view a help message at
virtually any screen by pressing
HELP . Press the direction keys to
read it. To exit help, press BACK .
If you need a reminder of what each
key does, select
Tutorial from the
CMDS menu.
➤ Follow the Arrows
The flashing arrows on the right of
the screen show which arrow keys
you can press to move around
menus or to view more text.
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Finding Synonyms
When you see THES flash once in the
upper right of the screen, that word has
a thesaurus entry.
1. Press
CLEAR
.
2. Type a word (e.g., splendid).
3. Press
THES
(red).
Or hold
✩
and press T.
This is its first thesaurus entry.
4. Press to view synonyms.
5. Hold ✩and press
DN
to
view the next thesaurus entry.
To return to the previous thesaurus
entry, hold
✩
and press
UP
.
6. Press
CLEAR
when done.
Search for a Word lets you find all of the
definitions in which a specific word ap-
pears.
1. Press
CLEAR
.
2. Press MENU .
3. Select Search for a word from
the CMDS menu.
4. Type a word (e.g., legal).
5. Press ENTER .
6. Press or SPACE to read.
7. Hold ✩and press
DN
repeatedly to view the next
dictionary entry with your
word.
To see a previous one, hold
✩
and press
UP
.
8. Press
CLEAR
when done.
FindingWordsinDefinitions
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Finding Synonyms
If you are uncertain how to spell a word,
type a question mark in place of each un-
known letter.
1. Type a word with ?’s.
2. Press ENTER .
3. Highlight a match.
4. Press ENTER to define it.
5. Press
CLEAR
when done.
Finding Spellings
➤ Spelling Finding Tips
You can also use ?’s to help solve
crossword puzzles. For example, if the
second letter of a five-letter word is
h
and its last letter is w . Enter ?h??w to
view possible answers.
➤ Understanding Thesaurus
Entries
A thesaurus entry consists of a
thesaurus meaning and a synonym
list. A thesaurus meaning is a
definition shared by a list of
synonyms.
➤ Two Ways to Back Up
Pressing
BACK
takes you back to the
previous screen you viewed. You
can continue to back up until you get
to
Enter your word .
Holding
✩
and pressing
UP
takes
you to the previous screen of similar
information. For example, if you
were viewing a dictionary entry, you
would go to the previous dictionary
entry.
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Finding Parts of Words
To find prefixes, suffixes, and other parts
of words, type an asterisk in a word.
Asterisks stand for a series of letters.
NOTE: If you type an asterisk at the be-
ginning of a word, it may take a while to
find the matching words.
1. Type a word with an ✽.
To type an asterisk, hold
CAP
and
press
? ✻
.
2. Press ENTER .
3. Highlight a match.
4. Press ENTER to define it.
To go back to the list of matches,
press
BACK
.
5. Press
CLEAR
when done.
Correcting Misspellings
If you misspell a word, don’t worry. It will
be corrected automatically.
1. Type a misspelled word.
To erase a letter, press
BACK
.
2. Press ENTER .
3. Press to highlight a
correction.
4. Press ENTER to view its dictio-
nary entry.
To go back to the correction list,
press
BACK
.
5. Press
CLEAR
when done.
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