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Franklin Next Century QC-30 User Manual

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NEXT CENTURY
QC- 30
By Franklin Electronic Publishers
Electronic
DICTIONARY
Words from Collins Dictionaries
USER'S MANUAL
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  • Page 1 NEXT CENTURY QC- 30 By Franklin Electronic Publishers Electronic DICTIONARY Words from Collins Dictionaries USER’S MANUAL...

  • Page 2: Key Guide

    Key Guide View the main menu. MENU View a help message. HELP View the games menu. GAMES View confusable words. CONF Clear to “ENTER your word:”. CLEAR Turn the product on or off. ON/OFF Go back, or erase a typed letter. BACK Type a question mark to stand for a letter.

  • Page 3: Getting Started

    Getting Started The first time you use this product, follow these steps. 1. Press ON/OFF. A brief demonstration appears. 2. Press CLEAR. Note: You can always view “ENTER your word:” by pressing CLEAR. Disabling the Demo You probably do not want to view the demo every time you turn on this prod- uct.

  • Page 4: Changing Settings

    Changing Settings You can change the font, shutoff timing, and screen contrast. The shutoff timing is how long the product stays on if you forget to turn it off. 1. Press MENU. 2. Press to point to “Setup”. 3. Press ENTER. to point 4.

  • Page 5: Finding Definitions

    Finding Definitions Most definitions include parts of speech labels, inflected forms, and hyphenation points. Here is how to look up a word. 1. Press CLEAR. 2. Type a word (e.g., “gesticulate”). To erase letters, press BACK. 3. Press ENTER. 4. Press Or press SPACE to page down.

  • Page 6: Correcting Misspellings

    Finding Definitions Correcting Misspellings When you enter a misspelled word, or a correctly spelled word not in this dictio- nary, a correction list appears. ample, enter “kawphy” and you see this. Press to point to the correct word. Then press ENTER to view its definition. Viewing Multiple Forms When you enter a word with more than one form in the dictionary, a list appears.

  • Page 7: Viewing Confusables

    Viewing Confusables Confusables are commonly confused words. When you see CONF flash at the top of the screen, that word has Confusables. Try this ex- ample. 1. At “ENTER your word:”, type “write”. 2. Press ENTER. Notice the CONF flash. 3.
  • Page 8 Finding Letters To find unknown letters in words, type a ques- tion mark for each unknown letter. 1. At “ENTER your word:”, type a word with ?’s for letters. 2. Press ENTER. 3. Press to view more matching words, if any. 4.
  • Page 9 To find prefixes, suffixes, or other fragments of a word, type one or more asterisks in the word. Each asterisk stands for any series of letters. 1. Type a word with one or more ’s. 2. Press ENTER. 3. Press to view more words.
  • Page 10 Highlighting Words to Define In definitions and Confusables lists, you can highlight words and then view their definitions. Try this example. 1. At “ENTER your word:”, type “instigate”. 2. Press ENTER. 3. Press ENTER again. The first word is highlighted. You can turn off the highlight by pressing BACK.

  • Page 11: Using The User List

    Using the User List In the User List, you can store words to define or to use in the games. You can even store words not in this dictionary. Note: The number of words the User List can store depends upon their length.
  • Page 12 Using the User List Adding Highlighted Words You can also add a word from a definition or Confusables list by highlighting it and then following the steps on p. 10. Read p. 9 to learn how to highlight words. Adding Nondictionary Words To add a word not in this dictionary (e.g., “ninja”), type it at “ENTER your word:”...
  • Page 13 Using the User List Once you have added words to the User List, you can view or remove them. To view the User List: 1. Select “User List” from the main menu. 2. Press ENTER to select “View list”. 3. Press 4.
  • Page 14 Selecting Game Settings You can play the games with word lists of various difficulty and with words of various lengths. Your settings apply to both games until you change them. . Press GAMES. 2. Press to point to “Game Setup”. 3.

  • Page 15: Playing Anagrams

    Playing Anagrams In Anagrams, you try to guess all the anagrams of a word. An anagram is made from some or all of the letters of another word. 1. Press GAMES. 2. Press ENTER to select “Play Anagrams”. word anagrams remaining 3.
  • Page 16 Playing Hangman Hangman challenges you to guess the letters of a mystery word in a number of tries. 1. Press GAMES. 2. Move the pointer to “Play Hangman”. 3. Press ENTER. ?—mystery word, #—tries left 4. Type letters. 5. Press to reveal a letter.

  • Page 17: Product Care

    © 1991-94 Franklin Electronic Publishers, Inc. Mt. Holly, N.J. 08060 USA. All rights reserved. © 1987-88 Wm. Collins Sons & Co., Ltd. All rights reserved. Confusables is a trademark of Franklin. U.S. PATENTS; 4, 490,811; 4,830,618; 4,891,775; 5,113,340; 5,203,705; 5,218,536.

  • Page 18: Warranty

    Warranty (U.K. only) This product, excluding batteries, is guaranteed by Franklin for a period of one year from the date of purchase. It will be repaired or replaced (at Franklin’s option) free of charge for any defect due to faulty workmanship or materials.

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