Franklin Crosswords Puzzle Solver CWQ-106 User manual

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CWQ-106
User’s Guide
Crossword
Puzzle Solver

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Introduction
Now there’s a fun way to make crossword
puzzles less puzzling. With your new
Cross-
word Puzzle Solver
you can . . .
• find possible crossword answers when
you know only a few letters,
• find more possible answers by changing
letters,
• find phrases by typing a key word,
• find possible answers by topics (such as
Animals and Theatre ), and
• play the Quiz game to practice your
puzzle solving skills.
Crossword Puzzle Solver can’t solve all your
crossword puzzles, but by combining your
knowledge with its 130,000 word crossword
answer list from Chambers®, you can find
more answers than you find now.
This User’s Guide shows you how. You can
follow its numbered steps by using the ex-
amples shown or by using words that
interest you.

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Key Guide
Function Keys
Goes back a step or erases a letter.
Clears to the Ready screen.
Enters a word or scrolls text to the left.
Shows help information.
Finds more word choices.
Turns
Crossword Puzzle Solver
on or off.
Searchesforphrasesincludingkeyword.
Starts the Quiz game.
Shows the Topics Menu.
Types a
? to stand for a letter.
Types a dash.
Direction Keys
Erases a letter or moves left.
Types a space or moves right.
Scrolls up a list or darkens the screen
contrast at the
Ready screen.
Scrolls down a list or lightens the screen
contrast at the
Ready screen.
BACK
?
TOPICS
QUIZ
PHRASE
ON/OFF
MORE
HELP
ENTER
CLEAR

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Getting Started
Here is how to start using this product.
1. Press ON/OFF to turn on your
Crossword
Puzzle Solver
.
A brief demonstration appears,. To stop the
demonstration, press CLEAR.
2. To stop the demonstration press CLEAR.
3. To disable the demonstration, type
--D
and then press ENTER.
Once the demo is disabled, the demonstration
will not begin each time you turn on the product.
To re-enable the demonstration, type --D .
4. To make the screen lighter or darker,
press or several times.
✓Resuming Where You Left Off
To extend the battery life, Crossword
Puzzle Solver
will automatically shut off
within two minutes if you forget to turn it
off. When you turn it on again, you return
to the last screen that you viewed if the
demonstration is disabled.

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Finding Words
Crossword Puzzle Solver helps you find an-
swers to crossword puzzles by finding missing
letters. Type a
? in place of each letter that you
do not know and let
Crossword Puzzle Solver
find all possible matches from its word list.
1. Type a word with ?’s (e.g., ?ALL??Y ).
To erase a letter, press BACK or .
To type a space, press . You can type
capitals only.
2. Press ENTER to search.
A MatchMaker list appears.
3. Press to scroll down the list of
matching words.
A ? can stand for a space as well as a
letter, as shown here.
4. Press CLEAR when finished.

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Finding Words
✓Viewing Help Information
You can view help information at most screens
by pressing HELP. To scroll the help automati-
cally, press ENTER.To exit help, press BACK.
✓Follow the Arrows
The flashing arrows show which arrow
keys you can press to view more.
✓What is the Flashing ?
Some words belong to one or more top-
ics. When you see the flashing
T at the
right of the screen, press TOPICS to
view the topics with which that word is
associated. To learn more about topics,
read “Finding Words by Topic.”
✓Scanning the Word List
You can view all of the words that are listed al-
phabetically in your
Crossword Puzzle Solver .
Select a word, either by typing it at the Ready
screen and pressing ENTER, or by pressing
ENTER when it appears in a list on screen
(e.g., a MatchMaker list). Once the word is se-
lected, you can use the arrow keys to scroll
up or down the entire list of words that is
found in
Crossword Puzzle Solver .

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Finding More Words
If the word you are looking for is not on a
MatchMaker list, press MORE to find more
possibilities. When you press MORE,
Cross-
word Puzzle Solver
substitutes a letter for
one that you have typed. Try this example.
1. Type a word (e.g.,
DOT ) and press ENTER.
Correct word appears. This means the
word was spelled correctly.
2. Press MORE.
Note: You can also press MORE from
the
Ready screen.
The lowercase letter is the new letter.
3. Press repeatedly to view more matches.
These are all variations, with one letter
changed, of the original word
DOT .
4. Press CLEAR when finished.

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Crossword Puzzle Solver can also find
phrases that include a key word.
1. Type a word in a phrase (e.g.,
CAT ).
2. Press ENTER.
3. Press PHRASE.
Note: You can also press PHRASE
from the
Ready screen.
3. Press repeatedly to view the
phrases.
4. Press CLEAR when finished.
Finding Phrases
✓Correcting Misspellings
Crossword Puzzle Solver can be used as a
spell checker. However, it can correct only
those words that are in this crossword list
from Chambers®. It may not recognize
some commonly used English words.

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Finding Words by Topic
You can even narrow your search by topic.
There are 196 topics from which to choose.
They include anything from
Academics to
Zoology .
1. Press TOPICS.
The Topics menu appears.
2. Type the first letter of the topic (e.g.,
B ).
Note: There are no topics starting with the
letters K, Q, X, or Y.
3. Press repeatedly until the topic
you want appears (e.g.,
Bible ).
4. Press ENTER.
5. At the Ready screen type your cross-
word guess with ?’s (e.g.,
M???S ).
6. Press ENTER.
7. Press to scroll down the
MatchMaker list.
8. Press CLEAR when finished.