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EXPANDABL E ELECTRONI C LIBRARY
French Professor™/
Professeur d’Anglais
USER’S GUIDE
MODE D’EMPLOI
BQF-440
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Contents
Welcome to the world of BOOKMAN! BOOKMAN is a powerful, portable electronic library with a built-in book and a slot in the back for more books. With this French Professor, you can now translate and define more than 200,000 words, cor-
rect misspellings of both French and English words, view noun, adjective, and verb inflections, and save words to a Personal word list for a more enjoyable way to learn. To learn how to use other books, read their User’s Guides.
Installing Batteries & Cards ........................................... |
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Selecting a Book ........................................................... |
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Using the Color Keys ..................................................... |
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Changing the Language ................................................. |
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Viewing a Demonstration .............................................. |
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Translating English Words ............................................. |
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Translating French Words .............................................. |
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Learning Inflections ....................................................... |
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Finding a Letter ............................................................. |
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Finding a Prefix ............................................................. |
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Correcting Misspellings ................................................. |
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Using your Personal List................................................ |
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Highlighting a Word ....................................................... |
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Sending a Word Between Books .................................... |
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Changing Game Settings ............................................... |
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Playing the Games......................................................... |
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Key Guide
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Function Keys |
EFFAC |
Clears to the ready screen. |
MENU |
Shows Additional Functions menu. |
CONJ |
(red) Show inflections of a word. |
LANG |
(green) Switches between English |
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and French entry languages. |
JEUX |
(yellow) Shows the games list. |
LISTE |
(blue)ShowsPersonallistmenu. |
CARTE |
Exits the selected book. |
ON/OFF |
Turns BOOKMAN on or off. |
Understanding the Color Keys
The color keys (red, green, yellow, and blue) perform the functions listed above only for the BOOKMAN book card described in this User’s Guide.
Other books have their own color key functions, which are labelled on their cards and listed in their User’s Guides. For more information, read “Using the Color Keys.”
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Other Keys |
ARR |
Backs up, erases letters, or |
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stops a highlight. |
MAJ |
Shifts ? to type an asterisk. |
ENTRER |
Enters a search, selects a |
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menu item, or starts a highlight. |
AIDE |
Shows help messages. |
ESPACE |
Types a space or pages down. |
? |
Types a ? to stand for an |
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unknown letter in a word; |
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shifted, types an to stand |
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for a series of unknown letters. |
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Direction Keys |
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Moves in indicated direction. |
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Star Key Combinations* |
+ CARTE Sends a word between books.
+ BAS Shows the next word or inflection group.
+ HT Shows the previous word or inflection group.
*Hold while pressing the other key.
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Installing Batteries |
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Installing Cards |
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BOOKMAN model 440 uses two lithium CR-2032 batteries. Here is how to install or replace them.
Warning: When the batteries lose power or are removed from BOOKMAN, information that you entered in its builtin book, and in an installed card, will be erased.
1.Turn BOOKMAN over.
2.Slide off its battery cover in the direction of the triangle.
3.Install the batteries following the diagram in the case.
4.Replace the battery cover.
Resuming Where You Left Off
You can turn off BOOKMAN at any screen. When you turn BOOKMAN on again, the screen that you last viewed appears.
Warning: Never install or remove a card when BOOKMAN is on. If you do, information that you entered in its builtin book, and in an installed card, will be erased.
1.Turn BOOKMAN off.
2.Turn BOOKMAN over.
3.Align the tabs on the card with the notches in the slot.
4.Press the card down until it snaps into place.
Removing Cards
Warning: When you remove a card to install another, information that you entered into the removed card will be erased.
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Selecting a Book |
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Using the Color Keys |
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Once you have installed a card in your BOOKMAN, you can select which book you want to use.
1.Turn BOOKMAN on.
2.Press CARTE .
These are sample books.
3.Press 
or 
to highlight the book you want to use.
4.Press ENTRER to select it.
About Screen Illustrations
Some screen illustrations in this User’s Guide may differ from what you see on the actual screen. This does not mean that your BOOKMAN is malfunctioning.
The red, green, yellow, and blue keys on yourBOOKMANchangefunctionsaccording to which book is selected.
When the built-in book is selected, the color keys function as labelled on the BOOKMAN keyboard. When a card book is selected, the color keys function as labelled on that card.
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Remember, the color keys for BOOKMAN books in cards function as labelled on their cards, not as on the keyboard.
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Changing the Language
▼ Message Language
When you turn on this product for the first time, you must choose the message language. The message language is the language of prompts, help, and other messages. You can change the message language after your initial decision.
NOTE: The examples in the English half of this manual use English as the message language.
1. Press MENU if you are not at the
Message language screen.
2.Press A to select the Message language screen.
3.Press B to select English as the message language; press
A to select French.
Changing the Language
▼ Entry Language
The entry language is the language in which you enter words at ready screens. This determines which dictionary you will use, French or English.
1.If not at the Ready screen, press EFFAC .
2.Press LANG to switch between dictionaries.
Changing the Contrast
If you want to change the screen contrast, repeatedly press
or 
at the blank ready screen.
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