Franklin IC-142 User manual

User’s Manual
IC-142 F
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Electronic Publishers
For Use with the Franklin
Digital Book System®
Mt. Holly, NJ 08060
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Electronic Publishers
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Contents
Key Guide ........................................................ 4
Introduction ...................................................... 6
Getting Started.......................................... 7
Installing the Organiz-It ................................... 8
Selecting Topics ............................................... 9
Tips for Beginners .......................................... 10
Viewing Help .................................................. 12
Clock .......................................................... 13
Setting the Date and Time.............................. 14
Schedule .................................................... 16
Making Schedule Entries ............................... 17
Finding Schedule Entries ............................... 18
Changing Schedule Entries............................ 20
Viewing the NextAppointment ....................... 21
Calendar..................................................... 22
Viewing Calendars ......................................... 23
Viewing Schedule Entries .............................. 24
Scheduling from the Calendar........................ 25
Phone Books ............................................. 26
Making Phone Book Entries........................... 27
Finding Phone Book Entries........................... 28
Using the Locate Menu .................................. 30
Changing Phone Book Entries ....................... 31

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Contents
World Time................................................. 32
Finding Locations ........................................... 33
Scanning the Menu ........................................ 34
Entering Locations ......................................... 35
Changing Locations ....................................... 36
Calculator................................................... 37
Making Calculations ....................................... 38
Using Previous Results .................................. 39
To Do .......................................................... 41
Making a To Do List........................................ 42
Finding & Changing To Do Entries ................. 43
Expenses ................................................... 44
Making Expense Entries ................................ 45
Finding & Changing Expenses....................... 46
Calculating Expenses..................................... 47
Protecting Information.............................. 48
Assigning a Password.................................... 49
Gauging the Memory...................................... 50
Copying an Organiz-It .................................... 51
Copying to and from PCs ............................... 52
Appendix.................................................... 55
Digital Book System®..................................... 56
Limited Warranty ............................................ 58
Index .............................................................. 59
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Key Guide
Function Keys
CLEAR
Clears to the main screen of a topic.
MENU
Shows the main menus.
GAMES
No function.
MORE
Shows special characters to type.
LIST
Locks top row of letters to type numbers
(DBS-1 & -2 only).
SPEC
Shows special menus.
CARD
Exits the Organiz-It.
Other Keys
BACK
Backs up (e.g., erases typed characters).
ENTER
Makes an entry or selects a menu item.
HELP
Shows a help message.
ON/OFF
Turns the Digital Book System on or off.
SHIFT
Shifts keys to type punctuation, capitals, etc.
SPACE
Types a space.
? *
Shows a complete menu item.
Direction Keys
Scroll or move the cursor.
DN or UP Page down or up. (In Calculator, scroll.)
+ Jump to the top or bottom of a menu or
entry.
+ DN/UP Show the next or previous entry or
match.

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Key Guide
Gold Key Combinations*
+
A
Selects the Personal Phone Book.
+
B
Selects the Business Phone Book.
+
C
Selects the Clock.
+
D
Selects the Calendar (dates).
+
F
Selects World Time (foreign).
+
G
Selects To Do (goals).
+
M
Selects the Calculator (math).
+
N
Shows the next appointment.
+
S
Selects the Schedule.
+
X
Selects the Expenses.
+
BACK
Exits an entry without saving changes.
+
CARD
Sends search word to another digital book.
+
ENTER
Saves an entry or changes.
+
SHIFT
Types special characters when pressed
with letter keys.
Calculator Only Keys
+
H
Calculates a percentage (%).
+
J
Squares a number (n2).
+
K
Calculates a square root (√n).
+
L
Calculates a reciprocal (1/n).
SHIFT
+
,-
Types a negative number (–n).
* Hold the Gold key while pressing the other key.

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Introduction
✓About Screen Illustrations
Some screen illustrations in this User’s Manual may
vary slightly from what you see on screen. These
variations do not mean that the Organiz-It or your
Digital Book System is malfunctioning.
Your Organiz-It™is a powerful and portable personal
organizer that works in your Digital Book System®.
This unique organizer has nine main functions, or
topics: Business Phone, Schedule, World Time,
Clock, Calendar, Calculator, Personal Phone, To Do,
and Expenses.
The Organiz-It can also communicate with personal
computers via the serial port on certain Digital Book
System models. This feature lets you copy informa-
tion to and from personal computers for backup or
editing.
Your information is also protected by a built-in bat-
tery, which saves your information when the Organiz-
It is not installed in the Digital Book System. A
user-designated password provides additional safety.
The Organiz-It also features powerful Schedule and
Phone Book searching, multiple-day Schedule en-
tries, Schedule notes, and more World Time loca-
tions.

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Getting Started
If you’re using the
Organiz-It for the first time,
read this section.
It explains basic
terms and tasks
that you need to know.

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Installing the Organiz-It
You must install the Organiz-It digital book in the
Digital Book System before you can use it.
WARNING: Never install a digital book when the
Digital Book System is on. If you do, information en-
tered in it or any other installed digital book(s) may
be permanently erased.
1. Turn off the Digital Book System.
2. Install the digital book into a slot on the back.
3. Press
ON/OFF
.
4. Adjust the screen contrast, if needed.
If the screen is still blank, check the batteries.
5. Press
CARD
.
6. Press or to highlight the appropriate digi-
tal book symbol.
7. Press
ENTER
.
✓Resuming Where You Left Off
While using this digital book, you can turn off the
Digital Book System at any time. When you turn
the Digital Book System on again, you return to
the screen that you last viewed.

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Selecting Topics
Before you can use one of the main functions, or top-
ics, of the Organiz-It, you must select that topic.
1. Press
MENU
to view the main menus.
2. Press the arrow keys to highlight a topic
on the Topics menu.
A check marks the currently selected topic.
The flashing arrows at the bottom of the screen
show which arrow keys you can press to move
around the screen.
3. Press
ENTER
to select the topic.
4. To select another topic, repeat these steps.
✓A Quicker Way to Select Topics
Rather than selecting topics from the Topics
menu, you can select them using Gold key combi-
nations. To select the Schedule topic, for example,
hold and press
S
.
Gold key combinations are listed in the Key Guide
and on the Quick Reference Card.

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Tips for Beginners
These tips apply to all or most of the topics in the
Organiz-It.
✓Using Special Menus
Many tasks require you to use special menus. To
view a special menu, you press
SPEC
.
This is a special menu.
To select an item on the menu, press the arrow
keys to highlight it and then press
ENTER
. To exit
without selecting an item, press
BACK
.
✓Typing Special Characters
Press
MORE
to view the special characters you
can type at entry and search screens.
To type a special character, press the arrow keys
highlight it and press
ENTER
. You can also hold
and
SHIFT
while pressing a letter key to type
these characters.

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Tips for Beginners
✓Typing and Locking Numbers
If you are using a Digital Book System without
separate number keys, you normally type num-
bers by holding and pressing one of the top
row of letters. When using an Organiz-It in these
models, you can lock the top row of letters to type
numbers only by pressing
LIST
. To unlock the
numbers, press
LIST
again.
At some entry lines, such as those requesting
telephone numbers or numeric calculations, the
Organiz-It automatically switches the top-row let-
ter keys to type numbers. If you hold and
press a top-row letter key in these lines, you can
type letters. However, you cannot use
LIST
to
type letters at these lines.
✓Viewing Complete Menu Items
Menu items too long to fit on one line are followed
by ellipses. To view the complete item, highlight it
and press
? *
.
Then press
BACK
to back up.

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Viewing Help
You can view a tutorial that explains the basic func-
tions of the Organiz-It.
1. Press
MENU
.
2. Select
Tutorial from the Other menu.
3. Scroll down to read.
4. Press
MENU
to return to the main menus.
✓Help is Always at Hand
To view a help message at virtually any screen,
press
HELP
. To exit help, press
BACK
.
✓Changing the Shutoff Time
The shutoff time is how long the Digital Book Sys-
tem stays on if you forget to turn it off. To change
the shutoff time, select
Set Shutoff from the Other
menu. Then select a new time or press
BACK
.

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Clock
The Clock can be set
to any time or time zone.
You can also set the Clock to
standard or daylight savings time
and display 12- or 24-hour times.

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Setting the Date and Time
You should set the Clock the first time that you use the
Organiz-It. You can reset it at any time. The Organiz-
It’s built-in battery powers the Clock when the Organiz-
It is removed from the Digital Book System.
1. Select
Clock from the Topics menu.
Or hold and press C(Clock).
2. Press
SPEC
.
3. Press
ENTER
to select Set Time Zone .
4. Select a time zone.
5. Select
Daylight Savings .
6. Select
Standard Time or Daylight Time .
7. Select
Set Date and Time .
8. Enter a year, month, day, and time.
To type
p for p.m ., hold and press
P
.
9. Press
ENTER
at the last line to save the entry.
Or hold and press
ENTER
at any line. Or press
SPEC
and select Save Changes .

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Setting the Date and Time
✓Setting the Hour Display
The Clock can display 12- or 24-hour times. To
change the display, press
SPEC
when the clock is
selected. Then select
Display 24 hour Clock or Dis-
play 12 hour Clock .
✓Setting the Clock to World Times
You can also set the Clock to the time zone of any
World Time location. Read the World Time section
of this manual to learn how to find a World Time
location.
With a World Time location in view, press
SPEC
and then select Set Clock To This Time Zone .

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Schedule
The Schedule is an
electronic date book.
In it, you can
enter meetings,
annual events,
and notes.

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Making Schedule Entries
You can schedule appointments, meetings, etc.
1. Select
Schedule from the Topics menu.
Or hold and press
S
(Schedule).
2. Press
MENU
.
3. Press
ENTER
to select New Entry .
4. Enter a year, month, day, and time.
To type
p for p.m ., hold and press
P
.
5. Enter an event, number of days, and a note.
You must enter an event. The note is optional. If
you leave
Number of days blank, the entry will be
for one day. However, if you enter a number and
want to change it to one day, you must type a
1 .
6. Press
ENTER
at the last line to save the entry.
Or hold and press
ENTER
at any line. To exit
without saving the entry, hold and press
BACK
.
7. Press
MENU
to return to the Schedule menu.
Your Schedule entry is listed by date and time.
✓Scheduling Annual Events
To schedule birthdays, anniversaries, and other an-
nual events, select the Schedule and press
CLEAR
.
Then press
SPEC
and select New Annual Entry .

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.
Finding Schedule Entries
You can search for Schedule entries by date or by
words in their event and notes. Read the next page for
all your options.
1. Select the Schedule topic.
2. Type a date or other Schedule search.
3. Press
ENTER
to view the first matching entry.
4. Hold and press the DN key to view more
matches.
5. Press
MENU
to view all the matches.
After a search, only matching Schedule entries are
listed on the Schedule menu.
6. Highlight a Schedule entry.
Type the entry or scroll to it.
7. Press
ENTER
to view the entry.
8. Press
CLEAR
to clear your search.

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Finding Schedule Entries
✓More Ways to Search the Schedule
Search by. . . For Example. . .
month only jan, feb, mar
year only 1995 or 95
month and year jan 1995
generic day today, yesterday,
tomorrow
generic time period last week, this month,
next
or previous year
words in events lunch, ski trip
and notes
dates followed by
feb 95 ski trip
words in events/notes
✓Understanding Searches
Search words are case insensitive. If you search
for
john , you will find John .
Incomplete words find whole words. If you search
for market , you will find entries containing market ,
markets , marketing , etc.
Multiple-word searches find only entries contain-
ing all the search words. If you search for
sales
meeting , entries containing only sales or meeting
will not be found.