Franklin PDT-440R User Manual

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Contents

Welcome to the world of BOOKMAN! With this

with Thesaurus

Power Dictionary

you can find over 110,000 dictionary words with 300,000 definitions, 500,000 synonyms, as well as antonyms,

etymologies, Classmates®, Confusables

and more. Y ou can also correct misspellings, save words to your User list, and play three challenging word games. Read this User’s Guide to learn how.

Installing Batteries and Installing Book Cards..................... 4

Selecting a Book and Using the Color Keys ........................ 5

Changing the Settings and Viewing a Demonstration.......... 6

Finding Definitions .............................................................. 7

Finding Words in Definitions................................................ 7

Finding Thesaurus Entries ................................................... 8

Finding Parts of Words ........................................................ 9

Correcting Misspellings....................................................... 9

Highlighting Words ............................................................ 10

Finding Classmates Finding Confusables

.......................................................... 10

......................................................... 11

Reviewing Words ............................................................... 11

Saving Words for Study..................................................... 12

Changing Game Settings ................................................... 13

Playing the Games ............................................................. 14

Sending Words Between Books......................................... 15

Resetting Your BOOKMAN and Specifications.................. 16

Key Guide

Function Keys

CLEAR

Clears to Displays the main menus.

(red) Displays a thesaurus entry.

THES

CLASS

(green) Displays Classmates (yellow) Displays the games list.

GAMES

LIST

(blue) Displays the User list menu.

CARD

Exits the book you are reading.

ON/OFF

Turns your 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 BOOKMAN book described in this User’ s Guide.

Other books have their own color key functions, which are labelled on their book cards and listed in their User’ s Guides. For more information, read “Using the Color Keys.”

®,

if any.

Other Keys

BACK

Backs up, erases letters, or stops a highlight.

CAP

Shifts keys to type punctuation.

ENTER

Enters a word, selects a menu item, or starts a highlight.

HELP

Displays help messages.

✽

Types a question mark to stand for an unknown letter in a word; shifted, types an asterisk to stand for a series of unknown letters.

Direction Keys

Moves in indicated direction.

SPACE

Types a space or pages down.

Pages down or up.

Star Key Combinations*

CARD

✩

Hold ✩ and press the other key

Sends a word between books. Displays the next or previous

entry or match. Displays Confusables®, if any. Displays a definition.

Displays the Path list.

Installing Book CardsInstalling Batteries

Y our BOOKMAN, model PDT-440, uses two CR-2032 batteries. Here is how to install or replace them.

Warning: When the batteries lose power or are removed from your BOOKMAN, information that you entered in its built-in book, and in an installed book card, will be erased.

1. Turn your BOOKMAN over.

2. Slide off its battery cover in

the direction of the triangle.

3. Install the batteries in the

holes with their plus signs facing you.

4. Replace the battery cover .

➤ Resuming Where You Left Off

Y ou can turn off your BOOKMAN at any screen. When you turn your BOOKMAN on again, the screen that you last viewed appears.

Warning: Never install or remove a book card while your BOOKMAN is on. If you do, information that you entered in its built-in book and in an installed book card may be erased.

1. Turn your BOOKMAN of f.

2. T urn your BOOKMAN over.

Align the tabs on the book card

with the notches in the slot.

4. Press the book card until it snaps into place.

➤ Removing a Book Card

Warning: When you remove a book card to install another , information that you entered in the removed book card will be erased.

Using the Color KeysSelecting a Book

Once you have installed a book card in your BOOKMAN, you can select which book you want to use.

1. Turn your BOOKMAN on.

CARD

2. Press

These are sample books.

3. Press or to highlight the book you want to use.

4. Press

ENTER

to select it.

➤ About Screen Illustrations

Some screen illustrations may differ from what you see on your screen. This does not mean that your BOOKMAN is malfunctioning.

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 book card book is selected, the color keys function as labelled on that book card.



Remember, when you’ve selected a book card, the color keys function as labelled on their book cards, not as on the BOOKMAN keyboard.

Changing the Settings

Viewing a Demonstration

Y ou can adjust the font size, shutoff time, and contrast of this dictionary . The font size is the number of lines of text that appear on screen. The shutoff time is how long BOOKMAN stays on if you forget to turn it off.

1. Press

2. Press

CLEAR

3. Use the arrow keys to highlight the Setup menu.

4. Highlight Set Font, Set Shutoff, or Set Contrast.

5. Press

ENTER

6. Highlight a setting.

To exit without changing settings,

BACK

press

7. Press

➤

Follow the Arrows

ENTER

to select it.

The flashing arrows on the right of the screen show which arrow keys you can use to see more.

Before you start using this book, you may want to see a demonstration of what it can do.

If no book card is installed, the demonstration appears automatically when you turn on your BOOKMAN. T o disable the automatic demonstration, highlight

Disable Demo

Setup menu and then press T o re-enable it, select

on the

ENTER

Enable Demo

If a book card is installed in your

BOOKMAN, press

and

highlight the Setup menu. Then use

to highlight

ENTER

to see the demonstration.

View Demo

and press

➤ Help is Always at Hand

Y ou can view a help message at virtually any screen by pressing

HELP

. Use or

To exit help, pr ess

SPACE

BACK

to read it.

To read about what the keys do,

Tutorial

select

from the Other menu.

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