Franklin BOOKMAN ADV-2002 User manual

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User’sGuide
ADV-2002
Cartridge
Dictionary
& Thesaurus
Advanced

Electronic Publishers

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Contents
Installing Book Cards and Selecting a Book................... 4
Using the Color Keys and Changing Settings................. 5
Viewing a Demonstration .............................................. 6
Finding Definitions ........................................................ 6
Finding Words in Definitions .......................................... 7
Finding Thesaurus Entries ............................................. 7
Finding Letters in Words................................................ 8
Correcting Misspellings................................................. 9
Highlighting Words to Look Up ...................................... 9
Finding Classmates and Finding Confusables ................ 10
Reviewing Words and Saving Words.............................. 11
Deleting Saved Words ................................................... 12
Sending Words Between Books ..................................... 13
Changing Game Settings ............................................... 13
Playing the Games......................................................... 14
Index ............................................................................. 18
Welcome to the world of BOOKMAN!
With this
Advanced Dictionary & The-
saurus
you can find over 110,000 dic-
tionary words with 300,000 entries,
500,000 synonyms, as well as ant-
onyms, etymologies, Classmates®,
Confusables®and more. You can also
correct misspellings, save words to
your User list, and play three challeng-
ing word games. Use your BOOK-
MAN to read this book card. See “In-
stalling Book Cards” to learn how.

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➤ 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 books have their own color
key functions, which are labelled
on their book cards or on the
keyboard. For more information,
read “Using the Color Keys.”
Other Keys
BACK
Backs up and erases letters.
CAP
Shifts keys to type punctuation.
ENTER
Enters a search, selects a
menu item, or starts a highlight.
HELP
Shows help messages.
?✱
Types a question mark to stand
for an unknown letter in a word;
shifted, types an asterisk 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.
✩
+ CShows Confusables.
✩
+ DShows a dictionary definition.
✩
+ PShows the Path list.
Function Keys
CLEAR
Clears to Enter your word .
MENU Shows the main menus.
THES
(red) Shows a thesaurus entry.
CLASS
(green) Shows Classmates.
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.
Key Guide
* Hold
✩
while pressing the other key.

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➤ 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
BOOKMAN on again, the screen
that you last viewed appears.
Installing Book Cards
Warning: Never install or remove a
book card when BOOKMAN is on. If
you do, information that you entered
in its built-in book and in an installed
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 until it
snaps into place.
Selecting a Book
Once you have installed a book card
in your BOOKMAN, 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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Using the Color Keys
The red, green, yellow, and blue keys
on your BOOKMAN change functions
according 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 book is selected, the
color keys function as labelled on
that book card.
Remember, the color keys for
BOOKMAN books in book cards
function as labelled on their book
cards, not as on the keyboard.
You can adjust the font size, shutoff
time, 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 the
setting.
Changing Settings
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Before you start using this book, you
may want to view a demonstration of
what it can do.
Once you have installed and
selected the book card, press MENU
and highlight View Demo on the
Setup menu. Then press ENTER to
view the demonstration.
If you want to stop the demonstra-
tion, press
CLEAR
.
Finding Definitions
It’s easy to find definitions in this
dictionary. Simply type a word and
then press ENTER .
1. Press
CLEAR
.
2. Type a word (e.g., acute).
You cannot type capitals. To
erase a letter, press BACK .
3. Press ENTER . Or hold ✩and
press D.
4. Press or SPACE to read the
definition.
5. Hold ✩and press
DN
or
UP
to
see the next or previous
definition listed alphabetically.
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 . Use or
SPACE
to read it.
To exit help, press BACK .
If you need a reminder of what
each key does, select
Tutorial
from the Other 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 Thesaurus Entries
Each thesaurus entry contains a
thesaurus meaning and synonyms
for that meaning. Some thesaurus
entries also contain antonyms and
etymologies.
1. Press
CLEAR
.
2. Type a word (e.g., splendid).
3. Press
THES
(red).
This is its first thesaurus entry.
4. Press to see its synonyms.
5. Hold ✩and press
DN
to see
the next thesaurus entry.
To return to the previous thesaurus
entry, hold ✩and press
UP
.
6. Press
CLEAR
when done.
Finding Words in Definitions
You can also search for all the defini-
tions in which a specific word occurs.
1. Press
CLEAR
.
2. Press MENU .
3. On the Other menu, highlight
Search for a word and then
press ENTER .
4. Type a word (e.g., legal) and
then press ENTER .
Note: You can also search for a word
in definitions by entering a word,
pressing
MENU
, and then selecting
Search for... from the Other menu.
5. Press or SPACE to read.
6. Hold ✩and press
DN
repeat-
edly to see the next defini-
tions containing your word.
7. Press
CLEAR
when done.

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➤ Other Ways to Find
Thesaurus Entries
When you look up a dictionary
definition of a word, THES may
briefly appear at the upper right of
the screen. THES indicates that
the word you entered has one or
more thesaurus entries. Press
THES
(red) to see them.
THES also flashes at the upper
right of the screen when a
highlighted word has thesaurus
information. Again, press
THES
(red) to see that information.
➤ Comparing Synonyms
Some thesaurus entries include
comparisons to dictionary definitions
to help you understand their
meaning. For example, if you see
COMPARE: promise 1 , read the first
definition of
promise to learn more.
Finding Thesaurus Entries
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 series
of letters or spaces.
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 ?’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 Letters in Words

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➤ Two Ways to Back Up
Pressing
BACK
takes you back to
the previous screen you viewed.
Holding ✩and pressing
UP
takes you to the previous screen
of similar information.
If you misspell a word, a list of correc-
tions automatically appears.
1. Type a misspelled word
(e.g., nolij).
2. Press ENTER .
3. Highlight a correction.
4. Press ENTER to view its
dictionary definition.
5. To go back to the corrections,
press
BACK
.
6. Press
CLEAR
when done.
Another way to look up words is by
highlighting them in dictionary defini-
tions, thesaurus entries, and word lists.
1. At any text, press ENTER to
start the highlight.
You can turn off the highlight by
pressing
BACK
.
2. Use the arrow keys to high-
light a word.
3. Do one of the following:
To... Press...
define the word ENTER
see thesaurus entry
THES
(red)
see Classmates CLASS (green)
see Confusables ✩+ C
add word to User list LIST (blue)
search for the word MENU and
in definitions then select
Search for...
Correcting Misspellings Highlighting Words
to Look Up