Franklin Next Century QC-30 User manual

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Electronic
USER’S MANUAL
DICTIONARY
Words from Collins Dictionaries
NEXT CENTURY
By Franklin Electronic Publishers
QC-30

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Key Guide
View the main menu.
View a help message.
View the games menu.
View confusable words.
Clear to “ENTER your word:”.
Turn the product on or off.
Go back, or erase a typed letter.
Type a question mark to stand for
a letter. In games, end a round.
Type an asterisk to stand for
any series of letters. In games,
reveal an answer.
Enter a word, select a menu
item, or start highlight in text.
Type a space or page down.
Scroll up or down or type punc-
tuation.
Move the cursor or highlight.
MENU
GAMES
CONF
HELP
CLEAR
ON/OFF
?
✽
BACK
ENTER
SPACE

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The first time you use this product, follow
these steps.
1. Press ON/OFF.
A brief demonstration appears.
2. Press CLEAR.
Note: You can always view “ENTER your
word:” by pressing CLEAR.
Getting Started
✓Disabling the Demo
You probably do not want to view the
demo every time you turn on this prod-
uct.To disable the demo, select “Dis-
able Demo” on the Setup menu.To
enable it, select “Enable Demo.”
✓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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Changing Settings
You can change the font, shutoff timing,
and screen contrast.The shutoff timing is
how long the product stays on if you forget
to turn it off.
1. Press MENU.
2. Press to point to “Setup”.
3. Press ENTER.
4. Press to point to a menu item.
5. Press ENTER to view its settings.
6. Move the pointer to a setting.
7. Press ENTER to select it.
✓Help is at Hand
At almost any screen, you can view an
appropriate help message by pressing
HELP.To exit help, press BACK.

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Mostdefinitionsincludepartsofspeechlabels,
inflected forms, and hyphenation points. Here
is how to look up a word.
1. Press CLEAR.
2. Type a word (e.g., “gesticulate”).
To erase letters, press BACK.
3. Press ENTER.
4. Press repeatedly to scroll down.
Or press SPACE to page down.
5. Press CLEAR when finished.
Finding Definitions
✓Typing Punctuation
At “ENTER your word:”, you can type an
apostrophe by pressing or a full stop
by pressing .
Note: These punctuation
marks cannot begin a word.

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✓Correcting Misspellings
When you enter a misspelled word, or a
correctly spelled word not in this dictio-
nary, a correction list appears. For ex-
ample, enter “kawphy” and you see
this.
Press to point to the correct word.
Then press ENTER to view its definition.
✓Viewing Multiple Forms
When you enter a word with more than
one form in the dictionary, a list appears.
For example, enter “am” and you see
this.
Press to point to the form you want.
Then press ENTER to view its definition.
Finding Definitions

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Viewing Confusables™
Confusables are commonly confused words.
When you see CONF flash at the top of the
screen,thatwordhasConfusables. Trythisex-
ample.
1. At“ENTER your word:”, type“write”.
2. Press ENTER.
Notice the CONF flash.
3. Press CONF.
An identifying word follows each
Confusable.
4. Press to view more.
✓Quick Confusables
If you already know that a word has
Confusables, press CONF rather than
ENTER after typing it at “ENTER your
word:”.You’ll go directly to its Confus-
ables list.

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To find unknown letters in words, type a ques-
tion mark for each unknown letter.
1. At “ENTER your word:”,
type a word with ?’s for letters.
2. Press ENTER.
3. Press to view more matching
words, if any.
4. Press CLEAR.
Finding Letters
✓Help for Word Games
You can use ?’s to help solve cross-
word puzzles and other word games.
For example, if the second letter of a
five-letter word is H and its last letter is
W, enter “?h??w” and then scroll down
to view possible answers.

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Finding Letters
To find prefixes, suffixes, or other fragments of
aword,type one or more asterisksinthe word.
Each asterisk stands for any series of letters.
1.Type a word with one or more ✻’s.
2. Press ENTER.
3. Press to view more words.
4. Press ENTER to view a definition.
5. Press BACK to return to the list.
✓Letter FindingTips
You can type both ?’s and ✻’s in a word.
However, if you type either at the start of
the word, finding matching words may
take a while.
Note: You do not need to
type consecutive ✽’s or a ✽next to a ?.

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In definitions and Confusables lists, you
can highlight words and then view their
definitions. Try this example.
1. At “ENTER your word:”,
type “instigate”.
2. Press ENTER.
3. Press ENTER again.
The first word is highlighted.You can turn
off the highlight by pressing BACK.
4. Press to highlight “incite”.
5. Press ENTER to view its definition.
6. Press BACK to return to
the first definition.
Highlighting Words to Define

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In the User List, you can store words to define
or to use in the games.You can even store
words not in this dictionary. Note: The number
ofwords the User Listcanstore depends upon
their length.
To add a word to the User List:
1. Go to a definition or a correction list.
2. Press MENU.
3. Press ENTER to select “User List”.
This is a sample screen.The main word
of the definition, or the correction next to
the pointer, appears after “Add. . . ” .
Note: If “Add. . .” does not appear, the
word may already be in the User List.
4. Press to point to “Add. . .”.
5. Press ENTER to add the word.
6. Press CLEAR.
Using the User List

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Using the User List
✓Adding Highlighted Words
You can also add a word from a definition
or Confusables list by highlighting it and
then following the steps on p. 10. Read p.
9 to learn how to highlight words.
✓Adding Nondictionary Words
To add a word not in this dictionary (e.g.,
“ninja”), type it at “ENTER your word:” and
press MENU.Then select “Add. . .” from
the User List menu.
After selecting “Add. . .”, a special menu
appears. Move the pointer to a menu
item and then press ENTER to cancel
the addition, add the word, or spell-cor-
rect the word.
Note: You cannot view the definition of
a nondictionary word in the User List. If
you select such a word, “Only in User
List” appears.

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Using the User List
Once you have added words to the User List,
you can view or remove them.
To view the User List:
1. Select “User List” from the main menu.
2. Press ENTER to select“View list”.
3. Press to point to a word.
4. Press ENTER to view its definition.
5. Press BACK to return to the list.
To remove a word from the User List:
1. Select “User List” from the main menu.
2. Move the pointer to “Remove word”.
3. Press ENTER.
4. Press to point to a word.
5. Press ENTER to remove the word.

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You can play the games with word lists of
various difficulty and with words of various
lengths.Your settings apply to both games
until you change them.
1. Press GAMES.
2. Press to point to “Game Setup”.
3. Press ENTER.
4. Move the pointer to either “Word List”
or “Word Length”.
5. Press ENTER.
6. Move the pointer to a setting.
7. Press ENTER to select it.
Selecting Game Settings
✓Typing Game Words
If you select “Type them in” as the word
list, you will be prompted to enter a
game word after you select a game.

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Playing Anagrams
InAnagrams,youtrytoguessallthe anagrams
of a word.An anagram is made from some or
all of the letters of another word.
1. Press GAMES.
2. Press ENTER to select
“Play Anagrams”.
word anagrams remaining
3.Type an anagram.
4. Press ENTER.
5. Enter more anagrams.
6. Press to view the anagrams you
have entered.
7. Press ✽to shuffle letters.
8. Press ? and then to view
all the answers.
9. Press SPACE to play a new round.

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Hangman challenges you to guess the letters
of a mystery word in a number of tries.
1. Press GAMES.
2. Move the pointer to “Play Hangman”.
3. Press ENTER.
?—mystery word, #—tries left
4. Type letters.
5. Press ✽to reveal a letter.
6. Press ? to reveal the word.
7. Press ENTER to play a new round.
Playing Hangman
✓Viewing Game Words
After playing a round of Anagrams or
Hangman, you can view definitions of
the game word(s) by pressing ENTER.
To return to the game, press BACK.

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Product Care
Replacing the Battery
This product uses one CR2032, 3-volt lithium battery.
Should you need to replace the battery, unscrew the
screws on the back with a very fine screwdriver and
carefully remove the back cover. Install a new battery,
plus sign facing you, and replace the cover.
Hardware
• LCD: 17 x 79 continuous pixel • CPU: 65C02
• size: 6.9 x 10.1 x 0.8 in. • weight: 3.5 oz.
Cleaning, Storage, Problems
To clean, spray a mild glass cleaner onto a cloth and
wipe its surface. Do not spray liquids directly on this
product. Do not use or store this product in extreme
or prolonged heat, cold, humidity, or other adverse
conditions. If you have a problem with this product,
refer to the warranty. If you purchased this product
outside the United States, contact the place of pur-
chase to obtain warranty or repair information.
Copyrights, Trademarks, Patents, ISBN
© 1991-94 Franklin Electronic Publishers, Inc.
Mt. Holly, N.J. 08060 USA. All rights reserved.
© 1987-88 Wm. Collins Sons & Co., Ltd. All rights
reserved. Confusables is a trademark of Franklin.
U.S. PATENTS; 4, 490,811; 4,830,618; 4,891,775;
5,113,340; 5,203,705; 5,218,536.
EURO. PAT. 0 136 379 PATENTS PENDING
ISBN 1-56712-084-9

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Thisproduct,excludingbatteries,isguaranteed
by Franklin for a period of one year from the
dateofpurchase. Itwillberepairedorreplaced
(at Franklin’s option) free of charge for any
defect due to faulty workmanship or materials.
Products returned under warranty should be
senttotheoriginalvendorwithproofofpurchase
and description of fault. Charges will be made
for all repairs unless valid proof of purchase is
provided.
Thiswarrantyexplicitlyexcludesdefectsdueto
misuse, accidental damage, or wear and tear.
Thisguarantee does not affect the consumer’s
statutory rights.
FCC Notice: Complies with the limits for a
Class B computing device pursuant to Sub-
part B of Part 15 of FCC Rules. Operation is
subject to the following two conditions: (1)
This device may not cause harmful interfer-
ence; and (2) This device must accept any
interference received, including interference
that may cause undesired operation.
Warranty (U.K. only)
FPS-28005-00 A PN 7201711 Printed in Philippines