Franklin MWD-170 User Manual

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USB Dictionary

& Thesaurus

MWD-170

User’s Guide

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Getting Started

Congratulations on your purchase of the USB Dictionary & Thesaurus! This dictionary provides
access to definitions, thesaurus entries, a guide to English grammar and more. Take this convenient
USB flash drive with you so you can access your dictionary anywhere you’ll have access to a PC
with a USB 2.0 port. Use Mobipocket Reader Desktop to use the dictionary on your PC. Then use
the Mobipocket Reader Desktop to download additional eBooks and eNews at any time.

System Requirements

To use this dictionary on your PC, your computer must meet the following minimum system
requirements.

• Pentium PC or compatible with available USB support

• Processor speed 500 mHz or better

• 128 MB RAM

• Mouse or other pointing device

• Windows

• Available USB port, 2.0 or higher

• Internet access

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2000 (Service Pack 4 or higher) XP (Service Pack 2 or higher)

Plugging In Your Dictionary

To open the dictionary on your PC, follow the following instructions:

1. Take off the USB cover on your dictionary.

2. Find an open USB port on your computer.

3. Insert the dictionary into the USB port.

The Mobipocket Reader Desktop initializes and then launches on your PC.

Note: You may be prompted to restart your computer during the initialization. You do not
have to restart to use your device. Click No to continue.

✓ Mapping Disk Drives

If your dictionary does not automatically launch, it may be because it could not establish all the
necessary drives on your computer. Double-click My Computer. All the drives your computer
currently registers are listed in various categories: Hard Disk Drives, Devices with Removable

Storage, Network Drives, etc. The drives for your dictionary are listed under Devices with
Removable Storage. Your dictionary requires two drives in order to automatically install. If it finds

the second drive already occupied by a mapped network drive, the dictionary will not
automatically install. Please re-map the network drive, then unplug and re-plug in your dictionary.
To re-map a drive, in My Computer, click the drive you want to re-map, click Tools | Disconnect
Network Drive to disconnect the drive, then click Tools | Map Network Drive to re-map it.

✓ About Screen Illustrations

Some screen illustrations in this User’s Guide are cropped, resized, or may differ slightly from what
you see on your PC. This does not mean that your dictionary is malfunctioning.

Finding Definitions

It’s easy to look up a word in this dictionary. Simply type it in at the word entry screen. This is the
first screen you see on your PC.

Note: All instructions in this User ’s Guide refer to your typing or pressing buttons on your PC
keyboard, or using your mouse or other pointing device.

1. Type a word (for example, success).
To erase a letter, press Backspace.
To type a capital, hold Shift and press a letter key.
As you type letters, the first word in the dictionary that matches the letters you type will move

to the top of the word list. You may not have to type the entire word in order to find the one
you want. In this example, note that “success” appears on the screen after you type “suc”
but does not get highlighted until you type “success”.

2. When the word you want is on the screen, press the down arrow until the word you want is
highlighted.

Or you can continue typing letters until the word is complete and the matching word in the
list is automatically highlighted.

3. Press Enter to view the definition.
Or you can use the mouse and click the word you want.

4. Press the right and left arrows to scroll through and read the definition, if necessary.
You can also click and to scroll.
Note: If you press the up and down arrows, you will jump to the previous or next links in the

text. With a link highlighted, press Enter to go to that location in the eBook.
Click to view a grammar topic about the headword’s part of speech.

If a word has a thesaurus entry, is displayed at the bottom of the screen.
Click it to view the entry.

If a word has Confusables, is displayed at the bottom of the screen. Click it to view
the Confusables.

5. Click and then Search to return to the word entry screen.

Finding Thesaurus Entries

Thesaurus entries consist of synonyms, antonyms, classmates and other information about a word.
Synonyms are words with the same or similar meaning. Antonyms are words with the opposite
meaning. Classmates are words related in some way to the word you are looking up. They are often
words from a class of similar things, such as being a member of the same class of animals (for
example, giraffe). If a word has a thesaurus entry, will be displayed at the bottom of the
window.

1. Click and then Search to return to the word entry screen.

2. Click .

3. Type a word (for example, complete).
To erase a letter, press Backspace.
To type a capital, hold Shift and press a letter key.
As you type letters, the first word in the dictionary that matches the letters you type will move

to the top of the word list. You may not have to type the entire word in order to find the one
you want. In this example, note that “complete” appears on the screen after you type “compl”
but does not get highlighted until you type “complete”.

4. When the word you want is on the screen, press the down arrow until the word you want is
highlighted.

Or you can continue typing letters until the word is complete and the matching word in the
list is automatically highlighted.

5. Press Enter to view the thesaurus entry.
Or you can use the mouse and click the word you want.