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For Your Information
Follow the Arrows
✓
The flashing arrows on the right side of the
screen show in which direction you can
move around menus or view more text.
Help is Always at Hand
✓
You can view a help message at any screen
by pressing HELP. Use the direction keys
to read the message. To exit help, press
BACK or CLEAR.
Viewing a
Demonstration or Tutorial
You can view a demonstration or tutorial of
this device any time you want.
1. Press MENU.
2. Press
or
to highlight Tutorial or View
Demo and then press ENTER.
To exit from the Tutorial press BACK or
CLEAR. To stop the demonstration press
any key.
Changing the Settings
When using this device, you can adjust the
screen contrast, the shutoff time and the type
size.
1. Press MENU.
2. Press
or
to highlight Setup and then
press ENTER.
3. Press
or
until you highlight
Contrast, Shutoff or Type Size and then
press ENTER.
Contrast determines how dark or light the
screen is.
Shutoff determines how long your device
stays on if no key is pressed.
Type Size determines how large or small
the text displays on the screen.
4. Press
or
to highlight the setting you
want.
The current setting is marked.
5. Press ENTER to save your changes.
Press BACK to exit without saving your
changes.
Finding Dictionary Entries
Use the dictionary to look up words and
find a list of corresponding crossword puzzle
solutions organized by word length.
1. Press DICTIONARY.
2. Type a word (for example, intuition).
To erase a letter, press BACK.
To type a capital, hold CAP and press a
letter key.
3. Press ENTER to view the matching
dictionary entries.
Search results begin with the entry for the
word you typed, if available. This will be
followed by any entries that contain the
word you typed.
Press SPACE or
to read the entry.
Press
or
to view the next or previous
entry.
4. Press CLEAR when done.
Restricting Your Search
✓
You can restrict your search to display only
matches of a certain length.
To enter a word length, first type a word
(for example, type intuition). Press
to the word length field. Type a one or two
digit number (for example, type 10). Press
ENTER.
Notice how your results differ from those
after step 3 above. You still see the entry
for "intuition", but only the part of the
entry listing 10 letter matches (i.e., 10 sixth
sense). And instead of 15 matching entries,
you only have 2, where the second entry
(sixth sense) is the only one of the original
15 where the headword is 10 letters long.
Note: The message "No dictionary entries"
is displayed when your search returns no
matches. Try changing the word length
or removing it entirely to find matches for
your word.
Understanding Definitions
✓
Entries consist of the headword, followed
by synonyms and other crossword solution
possibilities, arranged according to word
length.
Misspelling Words
✓
If you enter a misspelled word, a list of
corrections appears. Press
highlight the word you want and then
press ENTER to see its entry.
Choosing Multiple Forms
✓
Some words in the dictionary or thesaurus
have more than one form (for example,
resume, resumé, résumé). When the word
you are looking up has multiple forms,
the different forms appear in a list. Simply
highlight the form you want and press
ENTER to see its entry.
For example, type resume at the
dictionary word entry screen. Press
to highlight the form you want and then
press ENTER to see its entry. Press BACK to
return to the Multiple Forms list.
Understanding Confusables®
✓
Confusables are homonyms, homophones
and spelling variants that are easy to
confuse with one another (for example,
rain, reign, rein). If the word you looked
up is a Confusable,
conf
right corner of the screen. Press ? to view
the Confusables.
Note: Anytime you see
conf
top right corner of the screen, it indicates
that the headword, list word or highlighted
word is a Confusable. Press ? to view its
Confusables. Press BACK to return to your
to go
previous location.
Using the Thesaurus
Use the Franklin Thesaurus to find synonyms,
antonyms and other information about a
word.
1. Press THESAURUS.
2. Type a word (for example, complete).
To erase a letter, press BACK.
To type a capital, hold CAP and press a
letter key.
3. Press ENTER to view the thesaurus
entry.
Search results begin with the entry for the
word you typed, if available. This will be
followed by any entries that contain the
word you typed.
Press SPACE or
Press
or
entry, if available.
or
to
4. Press CLEAR when done.
Understanding Thesaurus Entries
✓
A thesaurus entry consists of a group of
synonyms, antonyms and classmates.
Synonyms are words that have similar
meanings (for example, happy/joyous).
Antonyms are words that have the
opposite meaning (for example, happy/
miserable). Classmates are words that are
related in some way to the word being
defined (for example, octagon/triangle;
rectangle; pentagon...).
or
Highlighting Words
Another way to look up words is by
highlighting them in entries or word lists.
You can then find their dictionary entries,
thesaurus entries, Confusables® or add them
to My Word List.
1. At any text, press ENTER to start the
highlight.
flashes at the top
To turn the highlight off, press BACK.
2. Use the direction keys to move the
highlight to the word you want.
flash at the
To...
view the dictionary
entry
view the thesaurus
entry
view Confusables®,
if available
add the word to
My Word List
3. Press CLEAR when done.
Finding Letters in Words
If you are uncertain about how to spell a
word, type a question mark (?) in place of
each unknown letter. To find prefixes, suffixes,
and other parts of words, type an asterisk (])
in a word. Each asterisk stands for a series of
letters. Note: If you type an asterisk at the
beginning of a word, it may take a little while
to find the matching words.
to read the entry.
to view the next or previous
Press...
DICTIONARY
THESAURUS
?
LISTS
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