Franklin MWS-2018 User Manual

Electronic Publishers
Dictionary
& Thesaurus
User’s Guide
MWS-2018
License Agreement
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Contents
Welcome to the world of BOOKMAN! BOOKMAN is a powerful, portable elec­tronic reference with a built-in book and a slot in the back for more books. With this
Dictionary & Thesaurus
and hear over 83,000 dictionary entries,
you can find
and 41,000 thesaurus entries with 496,000 synonyms. You can also cor­rect misspellings, save words to your User list, and play three fun, educational word games. To lear n how to use other books, read their User’s Guides.
Installing Cartridges and Selecting Books..................... 4
Using the Color Keys .....................................................5
Changing Settings ......................................................... 6
Viewing a Demonstration .............................................. 6
Finding Definitions and Finding Words in Definitions .... 7
Correcting Misspellings................................................. 8
Finding Synonyms ......................................................... 8
Finding Spellings ........................................................... 9
Highlighting Words ........................................................10
Finding Confusables™ ................................................... 10
Hearing and Reviewing Words .......................................11
Using the User List ........................................................ 12
Sending Words .............................................................. 13
Changing Game Settings ............................................... 14
Playing the Games ......................................................... 14
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Key Guide
Function Keys
CLEAR
Clears to
MENU
Shows the main menus.
THES
(red) Shows a thesaurus entry.
SAY
(green) Says a word.
GAMES
(yellow) Shows the games list.
LIST
(blue) Shows the User list menu.
CARD
Exits the selected book.
ON/OFF
Turns BOOKMAN on or off.
Enter your word
.
Understanding the Color Keys
The color keys (red, green, yellow, and blue) perform the functions listed above only for the book described in this User’s Guide.
Other BOOKMAN books have their own color key functions, which are labelled on their cartridges and listed in their User’s Guides. For more information, read “Using the Color Keys.”
Other Keys
BACK
Backs up, erases letters, or stops a highlight.
CAP
Shifts keys to type punctua-
tion.
ENTER
Enters a search, selects a menu item, or starts a highlight.
HELP
Shows help messages.
Types a ? to stand for an
?
unknown letter in a word; shows Confusables shifted, types an
in text;
to stand
for a series of unknown letters.
Direction Keys
Move in indicated direction.
SPACE
Types a space or pages down.
Star Key Combinations*
CARD
+
+ Shows next entry or match.
+
Sends a word between books.
DN
UP
Shows previous entry or match.
* Hold ✩ while pressing the other key.
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Installing Cartridges

Selecting Books

Warning: Never install or remove a cartridge when BOOKMAN is on. If you do, information that you entered in its built-in book, and in an installed cartridge, will be erased.
1. Turn BOOKMAN off.
2. Turn BOOKMAN over.
3. Align the tabs on the car­tridge with the notches in the slot.
4. Press the cartridge down until it snaps into place.
Removing Cartridges
Warning: When you remove a cartridge to install another, informa­tion that you entered in the removed cartridge will be erased.
Once you have installed a cartridge in your BOOKMAN, you must select which book you want to use.
1. Turn BOOKMAN on.
2. Press
CARD
.
These are sample books.
3. Press or to highlight the book you want to use.
4. Press
Resuming Where You Left Of f
ENTER
to select it.
You can turn off BOOKMAN at any screen. When you turn BOOKMAN on again, the screen that you last viewed appears.
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Using the Color Keys

Optional Features
The red, green, yellow, and blue keys on your BOOKMAN change functions ac­cording to which book is selected.
When the built-in book is selected, the color keys function as labelled on the BOOKMAN keyboard. When a car­tridge book is selected, the color keys function as labelled on that cartridge.
Remember, the color keys for BOOK­MAN books in cartridges function as labelled on their cartridges, not as on the keyboard.
AC adaptor
jack
Headphone
AC adaptor jack: Your BOOKMAN may be equipped with a standard 3.5 mm jack for use with a 9-volt, 200-300 milliamp AC/DC adaptor .
This symbol indicates that the inner core of the plug of an AC adaptor is negative and that the outer part of the plug is positive. If your AC/DC adap­tor does not have this symbol, con­firm its compatibility at its place or pur­chase.
Headphone jack: Your BOOKMAN may also have a 3.5 mm stereo head­phone jack for use with a standard im­pedance 8 Ohm headset.
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