Franklin BOOKMAN MWS-840 User manual

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Electronic Publishers
Dictionary
& Thesaurus
™
User’s Guide
MWS-840
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Contents
Welcome to the world of BOOKMAN!
BOOKMANisapowerful,portableelec-
tronic reference with a built-in book and
a slot in the back for more books. With
this
Dictionary& Thesaurus you can find
andhear over 83,000 dictionary entries,
and 41,000 thesaurus entries with
496,000 synonyms. You can also cor-
rect misspellings, save words to your
Userlist, and play three fun, educational
word games. To learn how to use other
books, read their User’s Guides.
Installing Batteries and Book Cards .............................. 4
Selecting a Book ........................................................... 5
Using the Color Keys ..................................................... 5
Changing Settings ......................................................... 6
Viewing a Demonstration .............................................. 6
Finding Definitions and Words in Definitions................. 7
Correcting Misspellings................................................. 8
Finding Synonyms ......................................................... 8
Finding Spellings ........................................................... 9
Highlighting Words ........................................................ 10
Finding Confusables®..................................................... 10
Hearing and Reviewing Words ....................................... 11
Using the User List ........................................................ 12
Sending Words .............................................................. 13
Playing the Games ......................................................... 14

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Key Guide
Other Keys
BACK
Backs up, erases letters, or
stops a highlight.
CAP
Shifts keys to type punctuation.
ENTER
Enters a search, selects a
menu item, or starts a highlight.
HELP
Shows help messages.
?✱
Types a ? to stand for an
unknown letter in a word.
Shows Confusables in text.
Shifted, types an
✻ to stand
for a series of unknown letters.
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 Showspreviousentryormatch.
➤ Understanding the Color Keys
The color keys (red, green, yellow,
and blue) perform the functions
listed above only for the book
described in this User’s Guide.
Other BOOKMAN 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.”
Function Keys
CLEAR
Clears to Enter your word .
MENU
Shows the main menus.
THES
(red) Shows a thesaurus entry.
SAY
(green) Says a word.
GAMES
(yellow) Shows the games list.
LIST
(blue) Shows the User list menu.
CARD
Exits the selected book.
ON/OFF
Turns BOOKMAN on or off.
* Hold
✩
while pressing the other key.

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BOOKMAN model 840 uses four
AAA batteries. Here is how to install
or replace them.
Warning: When the batteries lose
power or are removed from BOOK-
MAN, information that you entered in
its built-in book, and in an installed
book card, will be erased.
1. Turn your BOOKMAN over.
2. Slide off its battery cover in
the direction of the triangle.
3. Install the batteries follow-
ing the diagram inside the
battery case.
4. Replace the battery cover.
Warning: Never install or remove a
book card when your BOOKMAN is
on. If you do, information that you en-
tered in its built-in book, and in an in-
stalled book card, 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.
Installing Book CardsInstalling Batteries
➤ Removing Book Cards
Warning: When you remove a
book card to install another,
information that you entered in the
removed book card will be erased.
➤ Resuming Where You Left Off
You can turn your BOOKMAN off
at any screen. When you turn it
on again, the screen that you last
viewed appears.

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Selecting a Book Using the Color Keys
Thered,green,yellow,and bluekeys 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 func-
tion as labelled on that card.
Remember, the color keys for BOOK-
MAN books in cards function as la-
belled on their cards, not as on the
keyboard.
Once you have installed a book card in
your BOOKMAN, you can 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.
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➤ About Screen Illustrations
Some screen illustrations in this
User’s Guide may differ from
what you see on screen. This
does not mean that your BOOK-
MAN is malfunctioning.

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Changing Settings
You can adjust the font size, shutoff
time, and screen contrast. 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 to select it.
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.
Before you start using this book, you
can view a demonstration of what it
can do.
The demonstration automatically ap-
pears the first time that you press
ON/OFF . If you want to stop the demon-
stration, press
CLEAR
. To disable it,
press
MENU
, highlight the Setup menu,
and then select
Disable Demo .
Viewing a Demonstration
➤ Help is Always at Hand
You can view a help message at vir-
tually any screen by pressing
HELP
.
Press the Direction keys to read it.
To exit help, press
BACK
or
HELP
.
If you want to read an overview
of this product and the key’s
functions, highlight
Tutorial on the
Other menu and then press
ENTER
.
➤ Follow the Arrows
The flashing arrows on the right
of the screen show which arrow
keys you can press to move
around menus or view more text.

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Finding Definitions
It’s easy to look up a word in the dictio-
nary. Simply type it at the Entry screen
and press ENTER . Try this example.
1. Press
CLEAR
.
2. Type a word (e.g., knowl-
edge).
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
browse the next dictionary
entry.
6. Press
CLEAR
when done.
FindingWordsinDefinitions
Search for a Word lets you find all of
the definitions in which a specific word
appears.
1. Press
CLEAR
.
2. Press MENU .
3. Select Search for a word from
the Other menu.
4. Type a word (e.g., legal).
5. Press ENTER .
6. Press or SPACE to read.
7. Hold ✩and press DN to view
the next definition with your
word in it.
To see the previous one, hold ✩
and press UP.
8. Press
CLEAR
when done.

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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
.
This is the first thesaurus entry.
4. Press to view synonyms.
5. Hold ✩and press DN to view
more thesaurus entries.
To return to the previous thesau-
rus entry, hold ✩and press UP.
6. Press
CLEAR
when done.
If you misspell a word, don’t worry. It
will be corrected automatically.
1. Type a misspelled word
(e.g., nolij).
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.
Correcting Misspellings

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Finding Spellings
If you are uncertain about how to spell
a word, type a question mark (
? ) in
place of each unknown letter.
To find prefixes, suffixes, and other
parts of words, type an asterisk (
✽ ) in
a word. Each asterisk stands for a se-
ries of letters or spaces.
NOTE: If you type an asterisk at the
beginning of a word, it may take awhile
to find the matching words.
1. Type a word with ?’s or an ✽.
To type an asterisk, hold
CAP
and
press
? ✻
.
2. Press ENTER .
3. Highlight a match.
4. Press ENTER to define it.
5. Press
CLEAR
when done.
Finding Synonyms
➤ Understanding Thesaurus
Entries
Thesaurus entries consist of
thesaurus meanings 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 definition, you would go
to the previous definition.