Partner ER400 Professional User Manual

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ER400 Professional

INTRODUCTION..................................................................................... 2

General View...................................................................................... 3

Power Supply..................................................................................... 4

Initialization ........................................................................................ 4

Keyboard............................................................................................ 5

Display ............................................................................................... 6

Main Menu ......................................................................................... 7

DICTIONARIES....................................................................................... 8

REFERENCE ........................................................................................ 12

Business Correspondence............................................................... 12

Phrasebook...................................................................................... 13

Popular Idioms ................................................................................. 14

Irregular Verbs ................................................................................. 14

User's Dictionary .............................................................................. 14

Grammar.......................................................................................... 15

ORGANIZER ......................................................................................... 16

Telephones ...................................................................................... 16

Schedule .......................................................................................... 16

Calculator......................................................................................... 18

Local Time........................................................................................ 18

World Time....................................................................................... 18

Currency Conversion ....................................................................... 19

Metric Conversion ............................................................................ 19

MISCELLANEOUS................................................................................ 19

Game ............................................................................................... 19

PC communication........................................................................... 20

Setup................................................................................................ 21

Interface Language..................................................................... 21

Dictionary.................................................................................... 21

Organizer .................................................................................... 22

Security and Memory.................................................................. 23

Settings....................................................................................... 24

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User's Manual

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Page 1: Table Of Contents
Partner ER400 Professional User's Manual ® CONTENTS INTRODUCTION..................2 General View..................3 Power Supply..................4 Initialization ..................4 Keyboard.................... 5 Display ....................6 Main Menu ..................7 DICTIONARIES..................8 REFERENCE ..................12 Business Correspondence............... 12 Phrasebook..................13 Popular Idioms ................. 14 Irregular Verbs .................
Page 2: Introduction
User's Manual ® INTRODUCTION Congratulations on purchasing the Partner ER400 Professional! This product is ® the result of the combined efforts of Ectaco’s linguists, engineers, and programmers, and represents the last generation of the highest-performance integrated linguistic tools available. Partner ER400 Professional will be ®...
Page 3: General View
The standard package includes a CD with the PC-Link program and dictionary software for various operating systems. Set of the dictionaries and their contents may be different from those stored in the ER400 Professional. General View The general view and external features of the Partner ER400 Professional are ®...
Page 4: Power Supply
User's Manual ® Power Supply The ER400 Professional is powered by two AAA (LR03) batteries. When the batteries become weak, a warning message will be displayed. In order to prevent excessively discharging the batteries and undergoing a resulting loss of data in RAM, the Say function will be disabled if battery power is low.
Page 5: Keyboard
To enter the additional letters marked over the buttons, press ALT+ the desired button. To enter such letters in caps, press SHIFT+ALT+ the desired button. ER400 Professional features standard and phonetic modes of entering Russian letters: Russian standard mode allows you to enter Russian letters corresponding to the keyboard marks.
Page 6: Display
A, P Specify AM or PM (when the 12-hour format is set) Display Partner ER400 Professional features a high-resolution screen (160x64 pixels). ® The indicator line is at the top of the display and shows the following indicators: SHIFT key pressed Press u, t to move between three lines of symbols.
Page 7: Main Menu
Vertical scrolling or paging enabled (more text available) Horizontal scrolling enabled Main Menu The ER400 Professional MAIN MENU consists of four menus: Dictionaries, Reference, Organizer, and Miscellaneous, which conveniently organize access to the various sections. To display the MAIN MENU, turn the device on or close a current section.
Page 8: Dictionaries
Partner ER400 Professional User's Manual ® Popular Idioms Grammar Organizer Menu Telephones World Time Schedule Currency Calculator Metrics Local Time Miscellaneous Menu Game Setup PC Communication DICTIONARIES The Dictionaries menu includes English Russian General and specialized dictionaries: Medical, Business, Telecommunication & Computers (Telecom), Law, Oil, Financial, containing over 950,000 words in total.
Page 9 Partner ER400 Professional User's Manual ® You can attach specialized dictionaries to the Main dictionary at the Setup section (see Page 21). Icons of the attached dictionaries are displayed in the upper right corner of the screen and have the following meanings:...
Page 10 Partner ER400 Professional User's Manual ® • to scroll through the translations • t, u to switch between adjacent entries. Press ESC or any letter button to return to the input line and translate another word. You can change the translation direction by pressing R e q u e s t H i s t o r y The last 20 of the previously opened entries are stored in the Request History list.
Page 11 I n s t a n t R e v e r s e T r a n s l a t i o n For your convenience, the ER400 Professional provides an Instant Reverse Translation for all words and expressions in the dictionaries.
Page 12: Reference
Partner ER400 Professional User's Manual ® • SHIFT+DICT or any letter button to return to the input line. S p e l l - c h e c k e r V e c t o r U l t i m a ...
Page 13: Phrasebook
Partner ER400 Professional User's Manual ® 7. Advertisement activity. 23a. Questions. Notifications. 8. Ordering. 23b. Notifications. Information. 9. Sending samples and expertise. 23c. Assurance. 10. Proposing Conditions. 23d. Hope. 11. Doubt. Refusal. Consent. 23e. Requests. 12. Limited acceptance. 23f. Gratitude.
Page 14: Popular Idioms
Type the first letter of the desired verb and scroll through the list to find it. User's Dictionary ER400 Professional allows you to create your own vocabulary. Enter the User’s Dictionary section and choose one of the user’s dictionaries – English or Russian.
Page 15: Grammar
When the security mode is ON, words from the User's Dictionary are not shown in the Main Dictionary. Grammar The ER400 Professional contains the English Grammar in the English and Russian languages, depending on the selected Interface language. Press SHIFT+GRAM to enter the Grammar section.
Page 16: Organizer
Partner ER400 Professional User's Manual ® The Grammar contains three-level hierarchical menus. You can reach a menu’s third level by consecutively selecting topics from the menu. ORGANIZER Telephones In this section you can store names, telephone and fax numbers, as well as postal and e-mail addresses in English and Russian.
Page 17 Partner ER400 Professional User's Manual ® check in the upper right corner indicates the past events. C r e a t i n g a R e c o r d To open a new record template, press ENTER when you are in Schedule. If there are no records stored yet, a new record template will be opened automatically when you enter the section.
Page 18: Calculator
Partner ER400 Professional User's Manual ® Press any key to interrupt a Schedule alarm or a Reminder beep. You can change the record and set the Reminder for a later time. Closing the Schedule reminder window will bring you back to the section (for example, Main Dictionary) as you were before the alarm went off.
Page 19: Currency Conversion
While you are typing a new amount, the conversion is being performed. Metric Conversion With the ER400 Professional you may easily convert measurements from the British-American system into the metric system commonly used in Europe and vice versa, as well as convert within each system.
Page 20: Pc Communication
Press ESC to return to a new game. PC Communication Using the ER400 Professional PC-Link cable (available separately as a part of the Communication Package) and the PC-Link software (provided in the standard package on a CD-ROM) you may exchange data between your ER400 Professional and a personal computer.
Page 21: Setup
, . Then press ENTER to confirm your choice. Interface Language The default interface language of the ER400 Professional is Russian. You can switch interface language between English and Russian. Dictionary Supplemental dictionaries This option allows you to select specialized dictionaries to be attached to the main dictionary.
Page 22: Organizer
Partner ER400 Professional User's Manual ® Press ENTER. Slang lock This option gives you the ability to hide slang words or phrases contained in the dictionaries. For example, you may forbid your children access to slang. Slang lock is ON by default. To set Slang lock OFF, enter the showslan password and press ENTER.
Page 23: Security And Memory
Partner ER400 Professional User's Manual ® Time format The default 24-hour (Military) time format can be changed to the American 12- hour format. Daily alarm Enter the Daily alarm subsection. The default values are midnight, 00:00, and OFF. Use: •...
Page 24: Settings
Partner ER400 Professional User's Manual ® Specify a password up to 8 characters in length. Press ENTER. Retype the password for confirmation. Press ENTER. Always remember your password. If you forget it, you will have to reset the system, which will cause irrevocable loss of user data.
Page 25 Partner ER400 Professional User's Manual ® The section you have unchecked will not be shown in the menu, but you will have access to it by pressing the corresponding hot key, if any. Key tone This feature is designed to produce a short beep every time you press a key on the device’s keyboard.