Franklin NEXT CENTURY CPS-100 User manual

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Crosswords
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NEXT CENTURY
By Franklin Electronic Publishers
User’s Guide
CPS-100

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Introduction
Now there’s a fun way to make crossword
puzzles less puzzling. With your new
Crosswords 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.
Crosswords Solver can’t solve all your
crossword puzzles, but by combining your
knowledge with its 130,000 word cross-
word 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
examples shown or by using words that
interest you.

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Key Guide
Function Keys
Goes back a step or space.
Clears to the Ready screen.
Enters a word or scrolls text to the left.
Shows help information.
Finds more word choices.
Turns
Crosswords 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
The first time that you use this product, fol-
low these steps.
1. Press ON/OFF.
A brief demonstration appears. To stop
the demonstration, press CLEAR.
2. Press or repeatedly to adjust
the screen contrast.
NOTE: You can adjust the screen
contrast only at the
Ready Screen.
✓Disabling the Demonstration
You probably do not want to view the
demonstration each time that you turn on
Crosswords Solver . To disable the demon-
stration, type
--D at the Ready screen and
then press ENTER.
✓Resuming Where You Left Off
To extend the battery life, Crosswords
Solver will automatically shuts off within
two minutes, if you forget to turn it off your-
self. When you turn it on again, you return
to the last screen that you viewed.

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Finding Words
Crosswords Solver helps you find answers
to crossword puzzles by finding missing let-
ters. Type a
? in place of each letter that you
do not know and let
Crosswords 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 topic.
When you see the flashing
T at the right of
the screen, press TOPICS to view the top-
ics 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
alphabetically in your
Crosswords 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 selected, you can use the arrow keys
to scroll up or down the entire list of words
that is found in
Crosswords 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-
words Solver
substitutes a letter for one that
you have typed. Try this example.
1. Enter a word (e.g.,
DOT ).
Correct word appears. This means the
word was spelled correctly.
2. Press MORE.
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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Crosswords Solver can also find phrases
that include a key word.
1. Type a word in a phrase (e.g.,
CAT ).
2. Press PHRASE.
3. Press repeatedly to view the
phrases.
4. Press CLEAR when finished.
Finding Phrases
✓Correcting Misspellings
Crosswords Solver can be used as 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.

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✓Another way to find Words by Topic
To find a list of the words associated with
a specific topic, first select a topic (e.g.,
Games & sports ). Next enter ?’s to deter-
mine how long the words in the list will be
(e.g.,
???? ).
Now you can view every word that is four
letters long and listed under Games &
sports
.
Finding Words by Topic