Franklin SA-95 User manual

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SA-95
Spelling Ace
User’s Guide
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Congratulations! You now own a powerful and
portable electronic reference that you can use
at home, work, or school. Using your new
Franklin SpellingAce®, you can. . .
• correct and check spellings
• find missing letters in words
• find prefixes, suffixes, and parts of words
• find words that sound similar but are
spelled differently
• build words from letters, and
• play exciting and educational word
games, with scoring.
You can follow the steps in this User’s Guide
using the examples shown or using words that
interest you.Also look for checkmarked tips
like the one below that help you get the most
from your SpellingAce.
Introduction
✓Auto-Shutoff
If you forget to turn off SpellingAce, it will
automatically shut off to save battery
power. The product will shutoff in two min-
utes from the ready screen and in three-
and-a-half minutes for a game or entry.

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Key Guide
Clears to Ready for word .
Shows Confusables™.
Enters a word or selects an item.
Shows the games.
Turns product on or off.
Shows the current game score.
Erases typed letters.
Scrolls up; types an apostrophe.
Scrolls down; types a period.
Types a space.
Stands for a letter in a word.
In games, reveals a word.
Stands for a prefix or suffix in a
word.
Types a hyphen.
CLEAR
ENTER
GAMES
?
✽
CONFUSABLES
ON/OFF
SCORE
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Here’s how you can get started using your
Spelling Ace.
1. Press ON/OFF.
2. Press or repeatedly to adjust
the screen contrast.
NOTE: You can adjust the screen contrast
only when
Ready for word is in view.
Getting Started
✓Typing Punctuation Marks
You do not have to type punctuation marks
to find spellings. But if you want to type an
apostrophe in a word, press . To type a
period, press . Note, however, that punc-
tuation marks cannot begin words.

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When you enter a misspelled word, a list of
corrections appears. When you enter a cor-
rectly spelled word, the word
appears with an
asterisk.
1. Type a word.
To erase a letter, press .
You cannot type capital letters, but Spelling
Ace displays capitals in corrections when
necessary.
2. Press ENTER.
3. Press repeatedly to view more words.
4. Press CLEAR when done.
Correcting Misspellings
✓Just Follow the Arrows
The flashing arrows at the right of the
screen show which arrow keys you can
press to view more words.

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If you are uncertain about a few letters in a
word, type a question mark in place of each
unknown letter.
1. Type a word with ?’s for unknown letters.
2. Press ENTER.
3. Press to view more matching words.
4. Press CLEAR.
Finding Letters in Words
✓Solving Crossword Puzzles
Type question marks in place of the miss-
ing letters in an answer. For example, if
you know that the second letter of a five-
letter answer is an
h and its last letter is a
w , enter ?h??w and then scroll down to
view possible answers.

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To find prefixes and suffixes type asterisks in a
word. Each asterisk stands for a series of letters.
NOTE: When you type an asterisk at the be-
ginning of a word, SpellingAce may take a
while to find matching words.
NOTE: You cannot use an asterisk in the
middle of a word
1. Type a word with one or more ✻’s.
2. Press ENTER.
3. Press to view more matching words.
4. Press CLEAR.
Finding Parts of Words
✓More Ways to Use Asterisks
You can use ✽’s to find lists of unusual
words. For example, enter ✽
a to find words
that end with an a . In addition, you can type
both ?’s and ✽’s in a word, but there is no
reason to type them consecutively.

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Finding Confusables™
Confusables are words that sound alike but are
spelled differently. When a question mark is
shown to the left of a word, that word has Confus-
ables.
1. Type
air and press ENTER.
2. Press CONF.
3. Press repeatedly to view more
Confusables.
4. Press CLEAR.
✓Viewing Long Words
Some words are too long to fit on the
screen. To see all the letters of such long
words, press when the word is in view. It
will automatically scroll to the right. To return
to the normal view press .

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Selecting & Playing Games
Spelling Ace has seven word games that you
can play.
1. Press GAMES.
2. Press and to highlight the game
you wish to play.
3. Press ENTER to select the game.
4. Follow the screen prompts for each
game setting.
Each game has either one or two game
settings that you must select before you
begin play.
✓Viewing Game Scores
Between rounds, the number of rounds that you
have won and lost appears. You can also press
SCORE at any time to get the current score.
NOTE:Pstandsforthenumberofgamesplayed,
and C stand for the number of games won.
The score is reset to zero whenever you change
games, press CLEAR, or turn off SpellingAce.

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Selecting & Playing Games
✓Game Settings
Each game in this product has their own
game settings; here is a description of each...
Letters asks for the letters from which you
would like to build a word in Word Builder.
Min Word Size determines the smallest
number of letters each word entry must
have in Anagrams and Build Word List
Number tries determines the number of
guesses you have in Hangman.
Root Size determines the number of let-
ters found in the root word inAnagrams.
Speed determines the speed that the letters
appear in Flashcards and Word Blaster.
Word Size determines the size of the
game word.
✓Understanding User Games
User Hangman is played the same way as
Hangman, except that you must enter the
word with which you will play. Then you can
test a friend’s ability to discover that word.
You must also enter a game word before
each round of UserAnagrams.