2006 World Book
User’s Guide
Credits
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Contents
Credits ................................................................................................................................................ 2
Registration, Technical Support and Feedback ................................................................ 6
Registration ...................................................................................................................... 6
Technical Support ............................................................................................................. 6
Feedback .......................................................................................................................... 6
What’s New in 2006 World Book ..............................................................................................7
Getting Started................................................................................................................................ 8
Home Screen .....................................................................................................................................8
World Book Controls .....................................................................................................................9
Toolbar ............................................................................................................................. 9
Tool Kit ........................................................................................................................... 10
Using the Search Tools ............................................................................................................. 12
Search by Topic............................................................................................................... 12
Search by Word ...............................................................................................................12
Wildcards ........................................................................................................................ 13
Search by Letter ..............................................................................................................13
Article................................................................................................................................................ 14
Article Controls ............................................................................................................... 14
Media Center..................................................................................................................................17
Media Center Controls .................................................................................................... 17
Using Drag-and-Drop With World Book Media.................................................................18
Just Looking................................................................................................................................... 19
How to Use Just Looking ................................................................................................. 19
Audio Icons.....................................................................................................................20
Just Listening ................................................................................................................................21
Just Listening Controls ....................................................................................................21
Atlas................................................................................................................................................... 22
Atlas Controls ................................................................................................................. 22
Time Frame..................................................................................................................................... 24
Time Frame Tools ........................................................................................................... 24
Viewing Search Results.................................................................................................... 26
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What’s Online................................................................................................................................. 27
What’s Online Functions..................................................................................................27
Surf the Ages ................................................................................................................................. 29
Surf the Ages Functions .................................................................................................. 29
Using Sticky Notes ......................................................................................................................30
Creating Sticky Notes ......................................................................................................30
Deleting Sticky Notes ......................................................................................................31
Changing Sticky Note Appearance ................................................................................... 31
Organizing Your Sticky Notes .......................................................................................... 32
Sharing Sticky Notes ....................................................................................................... 32
Printing Sticky Notes .......................................................................................................32
World Book Preferences............................................................................................................ 33
General Pane ................................................................................................................... 33
Appearance Pane ............................................................................................................ 34
Window Pane................................................................................................................... 34
Special Effects Pane.........................................................................................................35
Dictionary Pane ...............................................................................................................35
Sharing Pane ...................................................................................................................36
Speech Pane .................................................................................................................... 37
Updates Pane ..................................................................................................................38
Notepad............................................................................................................................................ 39
Notepad Functions ..........................................................................................................39
Formatting Your Document: ............................................................................................40
Using Apple Services .......................................................................................................40
Spellchecking .................................................................................................................. 40
Working with Graphics .................................................................................................... 41
World Book Dictionary............................................................................................................... 42
Launching World Book Dictionary ....................................................................................42
Looking for a Word .........................................................................................................43
Using the World Book Dictionary Controls ....................................................................... 43
Using Speech Commands ................................................................................................44
World Book Atlas.......................................................................................................................... 45
Launching World Book Atlas ............................................................................................ 45
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Speech............................................................................................................................................... 46
Launching World Book by Voice Command ...................................................................... 46
How to Find an Article and Have World Book Read it to You.............................................46
Controlling Article Reading ............................................................................................. 47
Tips for Using Speech Capabilities................................................................................... 47
Speakable Commands for World Book .............................................................................47
Switching Between World Book Applications ....................................................................48
Troubleshooting ............................................................................................................. 48
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Registration, Technical Support and Feedback
Registration
Registering your copy of World Book entitles you to one year of free online updates. You can also sign up to
get email news about World Book upgrades and updates and about other Software MacKiev products.
You can register your copy of World Book by choosing the Register World Book command from the World Book
application menu.
Technical Support
If you experience any problems using World Book, choose World Book Tech
Support from the Help menu to go to the World Book Technical Support
website. If you cannot launch World Book, please visit The Software MacKiev
Technical Support website by copying the following address into your web
browser www.mackiev.com/support.html.
Feedback
If you want to share your thoughts about World Book with us, choose Provide World Book Feedback from the
World Book application menu and fill in the World Book Feedback form on the webpage that appears.
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What’s New in 2006 World Book
Customizable appearance. Customize World Book appearance to suit your taste. You can now
change the classic World Book Water look to Black Pearl, Daisy Field, Cherry Wood, Swiss Cheese, and
other themes.
Multiple windows. World Book has become more powerful and convenient to use as you can now
choose to open articles in separate windows and resize them when necessary, instead of having a
single World Book window occupying the whole screen.
Tool Kit. The Tool Kit has been added to simplify navigation through the contents of specific World
Book areas and help you keep sticky notes organized.
Search by Letter. You can now search through World Book articles by letter. You can display a list of
all articles starting with a certain letter, just like going through real encyclopedia volumes.
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Warner Music Collection. We have added sounds from the Warner/Rhino Music Collection to World
Book media. As you browse through articles, you will see music icons that take you to the Media
Center, where you can listen to sound clips from famous artists such as Madonna, Judy Collins, Joni
Mitchell, The Doors, Cher, George Benson, Linda Ronstadt, and many others.
Enhanced Notepad. Notepad has been enhanced with lots of new features. You can now resize
images directly in the document, set line spacing, wrap text around images, and much more.
World Book Atlas. We have added the Map Browse feature to the World Book Atlas so you can easily
browse through continents and countries. Just click the disclosure triangle next to a continent name
to see a list of its countries.
World Book Dictionary. World Book Dictionary has been greatly enhanced with speech recognition
and a range of options to make finding and learning new words easier. Moreover, for your
convenience we have made a free-standing World Book Dictionary application.
This Day in History Widget. New for Mac OS X 10.4 “Tiger”, this widget shows significant events in
history that took place on the current day or any selected day. Click any link on the widget page to
jump to the corresponding World Book article.
Researcher Widget. The new Researcher widget for Mac OS X 10.4 “Tiger” helps you search for
articles and maps in World Book and word definitions in World Book Dictionary.
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Getting Started
To launch World Book, double-click the World Book application icon.
You may want to drag the World Book icon to the dock so that it is easy to find
in future.
Home Screen
When you open World Book, you see the Home Screen with the Search and Browse areas and videos
and pictures floating across the bottom. You can select music themes and other sounds to play on
the Home Screen using the Just Listening feature. You can choose the music that plays at startup on
the Home Screen in World Book Preferences.
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The Home Screen media elements change to match the theme selected in Just Listening. For example, if you
choose African Music, pictures of people and places in Africa will appear.
Go to Atlas
area
Go to
Dictionary
Search by
Topic
Go to Time
Frame area
Go to What’s
Online
Go to Media Center area
Go to Just
Looking area
Open Just
Listening
device
Go to Surf
the Ages
area
Go to Monthly
Spotlight
Click any of the floating media on the Home Screen to find out
more about it in the Media Center.
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World Book Controls
Toolbar
The thirteen toolbar options are displayed in three groups. At the left of the screen are the Navigation
Control icons: Back, Forward, and Home. In the center are the Tools icons: Theme, Sticky Note, and
Highlighter. To the right are Area icons, representing places in World Book that you can visit: Article Viewer,
Media Center, Atlas, Just Looking, Time Frame, Surf the Ages, and What’s Online.
Navigation Icons
Back: Click to go back one screen at a time. Press the icon to choose a recently visited screen from
the Back icon drop-down menu on the toolbar.
Forward: Click to advance one screen, if available. Press the icon to choose a screen from the
Forward icon drop-down menu.
Home: Click to return to the Home Screen.
Tools Icons
Theme: Choose an appearance theme for World Book.
Sticky Notes: Click to create a new sticky note. Press the icon to choose a color for the next new
sticky note. For more information, see ”Using Sticky Notes” on page 30.
Highlighter: Click to turn the Highlighter mode on or off. The initial highlighting color is yellow. You
can choose another color of highlighter from the Highlighter icon drop-down menu. Only article text
can be highlighted, but there is no limit to the number of blocks of text that you can highlight at a
time. A single word is the smallest element that you can highlight. Highlights remain from session to session
until you clear them. When Highlighter mode is on, the pointer looks like a highlighter pen of the current
highlighting color.
You can highlight text by selecting it while the Highlighter mode is on. Erase highlights of the same color as
the pointer by reselecting the highlighted portion. To erase any color highlighting, switch to the Eraser mode.
To do this, choose Eraser from the Highlighter drop-down menu on the toolbar. When Eraser mode is on, the
pointer looks like an eraser. You can remove all the highlights from the current article, or all of the highlights
you have made in World Book, by choosing the appropriate Clear Highlights command from the Article menu.
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Area Icons
Seven toolbar icons allow you to quickly move to different areas of World Book.
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Click to go to the
Article area
Click to go to the
Media Center
Click to go to the Atlas
area
Click to use Just
Looking
Click to make a
chronological search using
the Time Frame feature
Click to view simulated Web sites covering the past
5,500 years
Click to explore online
features
Tool Kit
There are four icons on the left side of the World Book screen which you can click to open one of the four
most often used tools:
Area-Specific Tools
Click to open Article, Media, Atlas, Time Frame, or What’s Online Tools. These tools are described in the
chapters concerning the corresponding areas.
Click to hide or show
Article Tools
Click to hide or show
Media Tools
Click to hide or show
Atlas Tools
Click to hide or show Time
Frame Tools
Click to hide or show What’s
Online Tools
Search
Click to open the Search area, where you can search for an article or a media resource by topic, word,
or letter. For more information, see “Using the Search Tools” on page 12.
Navigation Kit
Click this icon and then click one of the following tabs:
•History: Go to previously visited places in World Book. These places are grouped by the day they were
visited. Click the disclosure triangle next to the date in the History List to view a list of places visited that day.
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•Sticky Notes: View and organize your sticky notes.
•Categories: All World Book articles are divided into categories (Geography, History, Humanities, Industry &
Technology, Life Science, Life Science / Plants, Physical Science & Math, Recreation, and Social Science). Select
a category to see a list of all the articles in it.
For more information, see “Using Sticky Notes” on page 30.
Dictionary
Click the Dictionary icon, then enter the word you want to look up. The definition of the first word
that starts with these letters appears. The list below the word definition gives other matching words,
sorted alphabetically. The World Book Dictionary area retains the last word looked up. Click the small
triangle in the Search field to see a list of the words that you have looked up during the current session.
You also can look up any word in an article, caption, pop-up tip, What’s Online area, or dictionary
entry simply by double-clicking the word.
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Using the Search Tools
You can search for an article, a media resource or webpages in World Book. Click the Search icon in the Tool
Kit or choose Search By Topic, Search By Word, or Search By Letter from the Tools menu.
Search by Topic
This is the most common search method. Type your topic in the
entry field and press Return to begin the search. The most
suitable match will be highlighted in the search results list and
appear in the article display area. If no match is found for your
search term, a keyword search is automatically performed. If no
match is found in either the topic or keyword search, a message
appears. Trying a synonym of your term may help. Double-click
closed folder icons next to items in the search results list to open
them and reveal subtopics.
Type a search
word here
Click a ”see also”
item to start a
new search
Double-click to go
to an article
Double-click to
open an article list
Search by Word
Type a search
word here
Add additional
search words
Select a type
to search in
Double-click an item
to open it
Type your search words in the three fields at the top of the
window. To refine your search, you can use the And/Or/Not
pop-up menus to combine the search terms, or search
according to the proximity of the terms.
You can also limit your search to certain types of media. Select
a media type for your search by clicking one of the icons
above the search results list.
You can select several media types by holding down the Shift
or Command keys while clicking the area icons.
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Wildcards
You can use “wildcards” to search for more than one form of a word.
A question mark ( ? ) represents a single character and an asterisk ( * ) represents one or more characters. You
can use wildcards at any place in a word, but you can only use one wildcard per search. Click the Search
button or press Return to begin the search. Matches will appear in a Wildcard Word List. To view an item, click
to select it, then click Search. The search term(s) you selected will appear in orange in the corresponding
articles.
When you use a wildcard in your search, World Book searches for the term in all areas of World Book except
webpages.
Search by Letter
Click a starting letter for words you want to find or
type letters in the Search field. Select a media type for
your search by clicking one of the icons under the
alphabet. This will narrow your search to articles,
maps, pictures, sounds, videos, animations, Bubble
Views, timelines, or Back in Time and Special Reports
articles. You can select more than one media type by
holding down the Shift or Command keys while
clicking the area icons.
Click a letter
Select a media type to
search in
Type to filter your
search results
Double-click an
item to open it
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Article
The Article area of World Book is where you view articles, related information (installed or online), and media
thumbnails, such as those for pictures, sounds, videos, and so on. To get to the Article screen from the Home
Screen, choose Monthly Spotlight from Browse, or choose Topics from Search. When you want to go to the
Article screen from other areas of World Book, click the Article icon on the toolbar or choose Article from the
View menu. Alternatively, you can click the Go to Article button in the top-right corner, if available.
Click to
hide or
show Article
Tools
Click to view the
article outline
Click to view the article’s
related Info
Click to
hide or
show the
article’s
media
Click to
view a
media
element
Drag to
resize
window
Click to scroll media elements
Article Controls
Article Tools
When you click the Article icon on the toolbar, the Article Tools area appears to the right of the Tool
Kit icons. There are two Article Tools: Outline and Related Info.
• Outline: Click this control to see the article contents by headings, which appear at the left of the screen.
Click any item in this outline and the article will automatically scroll to that section. When you scroll the
article, the outline scrolls in tandem with it.
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You can jump to the full-size version of any picture, map, movie, animation, table, timeline or Bubble
View by double-clicking its icon in the Outline pane.
• Related Info: Click this control for a list of related World Book articles and online resources, including
websites selected by World Book editors. These resources are listed by category - Back in Time, Special
Reports, Web Sites, and Article Updates - and are described in the What’s Online section of this manual on
page 27.
Article Features
An article may contain special items providing you with additional information on the article subject.
Article’s Special Items
Thumbnails: Thumbnails are small windows containing pictures or text that appear in a
variety of World Book areas. You can click the thumbnails to view the corresponding World
Book media elements.
To find out what topic corresponds to a particular thumbnail, place your pointer over the
thumbnail and read the text that appears in the Status area at the bottom of the main World Book window.
Tables: Open tables by clicking the Tables icon. All tables have headers and some of them have
footnotes too. The footnote area can be hidden or shown by dragging the horizontal resize bars.
You can also drag the vertical resize bar to make the table a convenient width. Click Go to Article to
go to the article associated with the table.
If you select and copy a table, it can be pasted onto a spreadsheet. Its table format
will be maintained!
Sound: Click the Sound icon to hear related sounds. A pop-up caption also appears.
Warner Collection sound clip: Click to hear sounds from the Warner/Rhino Music Collection.
Timeline: Click the Timeline icon to view a related chronology. Switch between Banner View
(horizontal) and Compact View (vertical) by clicking the corresponding buttons in the Timeline
window.
Sticky Notes: Click the Sticky Note icons to view related sticky notes.
Monthly Spotlight: The “Spotlight on...” article appears when you choose Monthly Spotlight from the
Home Screen or from the View menu. “Spotlight On...” is an article for you to browse. It changes
automatically each month (no online connection required), with highlights from World Book and
interesting facts about the month.
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Click to open or
close the media
canister
Click to move to the
part of the article
with the
corresponding
media element
Keyboard Navigation
Article Media canister: Click the media canister to see all media elements
related to the article in view. Click any item to move to the section of the
article containing the corresponding thumbnail, or double-click an item
to open it directly. Click the canister again to hide the filmstrip. If an
article does not contain any media, this control will be dimmed.
Double-click any
item to open it in
Media Center
Click to scroll the
film strip
You can use your keyboard to navigate within the Article area:
• Page Up/Page Down—go up or down one screen
• Up Arrow/Down Arrow—go up or down one line
• Home/End—go to the beginning or end of the article
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Media Center
All videos, animations, pictures, and Bubble Views appear in the Media Center. All the sounds found in articles
can also be played in the Media Center.
Click to hide
or show
Media Tools
Type to
filter media
list
Select
an area to
search in
Double-click
an item to
open it
Click to view
current media
Click to view all
media
Click to open media
canister with overlays or
sounds
Click to
make videos
or
animations
larger or
smaller
Click to go
to the
related
article
Caption
Drag to
resize
window
Media Center Controls
Media Tools
There are two panes in Media Tools:
•Current: click to browse all the media associated with the last article in view before you moved to the Media
Center, or the current Time Frame or Just Looking search.
•All Media: click to browse all media from World Book.
To restrict the types of media that are shown in Media Tools list, click the corresponding media type icons.
You can select several types by holding down the Shift or Command key while clicking the icons.
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Media Features
Toggle Movie Size: Click this button to make a video or animation twice as large or reduce it back.
Caption: Caption text can be copied by dragging it to Notepad or a similar word processor. You can double-
click any word in a caption to open World Book Dictionary at the word’s definition.
Go to Article: Click the Go to Article button to go to the article associated with the media
element you are using.
Zoom in and out of a Bubble View by pressing the + or – keys on your keyboard. You may also use the
arrow keys to navigate.
Using Drag-and-Drop With World Book Media
You can use the drag-and-drop feature to copy most World Book media elements. Click a
media element to select it and drag it to an open document window of an application that
accepts graphics, such as TextEdit or Notepad. World Book credits are copied together with
the media element.
You can copy almost all photos and illustrations in the World Book media collection. If a
picture cannot be copied, all the items in the Edit menu are dimmed when you click the picture.
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Just Looking
Just Looking enables you to browse through the content of World Book for ideas, much like flipping through
the pages of the paper edition. But Just Looking is also a powerful tool that can be used to search for World
Book resources by theme or by category and type of resource.
Click a
thumbnail to
view it in the
corresponding
area
Click to
clear the
screen
Click to
search and
display
resources
Drag to
resize
window
How to Use Just Looking
By Theme
Just Looking By Theme allows you to browse through the rich World Book media collection by selecting
interesting subjects such as dinosaurs, explorers, European painting, and international sports. Click the By
Theme control and then click the magnifying glass Search button to view a sample of World Book media.
Choose items from the Themes and Subjects pop-up menus to guide your tour. For example, choose On the
World Stage from Themes and Famous Women from Subjects to get a sample of photos from World Book
articles ranging from Mary Todd Lincoln to Sandra Day O’Connor.
Themes:
• Animal Kingdom • Industry & Technology • Sports & Recreation
• Architecture • On the World Stage • The World of Nature
• Art & Music • People & Places • Where in the World
• Gardening • People in the Arts
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By Category
Just Looking By Category allows you to browse through eight World Book categories. Click the By Category
control and then click the magnifying glass Search button to view a random sample of articles and media.
Choose items from the pop-up Categories and Content menus. For example, you could choose the category
History and set the content type to Sounds and get a selection of excerpts from famous historical speeches.
Categories menu: Content menu:
• Geography • Life Science • Animations • Pictures
• History • Physical Science • Articles • Sounds
• Humanities and Math • Atlas • Special Reports
• Industry • Recreation • Back in Time • Timelines
and Technology • Social Science • Bubble Views • Videos
• Media
Advanced Search: Click the bottom of the Just Looking device to open an Advanced Search drawer. Type a
few letters to filter the media list and then click an item in the list to place it on the screen. Click the Clear
button to clear the screen.
Audio Icons
Three types of audio feature are available in Just Looking.
• Listen Now icon: Appears in the upper-left corner of some text thumbnails. The sound
attached to this type of icon can be played without leaving Just Looking, simply by clicking
the icon directly. If you click the text in the thumbnail instead, you jump to the Media Center
and the sound automatically starts playing there.
• Embedded Sound icon: Appears as a white rectangle embedded in one of the corners of a
picture thumbnail. You can play the sounds attached to these icons only in the Media Center.
Click the thumbnail to go to the Media Center, where you will see a full-size version of the
media element, then click the embedded icon or use the sound control to play the sound.
• Warner Music sound clip icon: You can play the sounds attached to the thumbnail in the
Media Center. Click the thumbnail to go to the Media Center, where you will see a full-size
version of the media element. To hear sound clips attached to the media element, open the
Media Canister and click a sound icon. To stop the sound, click anywhere on the screen. To
open the sound in the Media Center, double-click it.
To find out more about a particular thumbnail, place your pointer over it and read the text
that appears in the Status area at the bottom of the Just Looking window.
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Just Listening
Just Listening enables you to explore the World Book music content and other sounds by theme while media
on the same theme floats by on the Home Screen “waterstream.” Click the Just Listening icon on the Home
Screen to open the Just Listening player. Then select a theme and enjoy the music!
Just Listening Controls
• Theme: Choose one of the themes from the pop-up menu, shown here in the order they appear:
• Music Sampler
• Classical Music
• Opera
• Jazz
• Rock Music
• Country Music
• National Anthems
• Songs from Europe
• African Music
• Asian Music
• Middle Eastern Music
• Latin American Music
• Music from the Islands
• Bird Calls
• Animal Noises
• Sound Level: Drag the slider to set the volume. This setting does not affect sound levels in other areas of
World Book.
• Just Listening Player Controls: There are three control buttons at the bottom of the player window:
Previous, Stop/Play, and Next. Use these buttons to control the sound playback.
Go to
previous sound
Play/Stop
Click to go
to Media
Center
Open to
choose a
sound
theme
Drag the
slider to
adjust
volume
Go to next
sound
• Display Area: Click the “Now Playing” display area to go to the Media Center for more information about the
current sound. If a bird call is playing, for example, you can see a picture of that kind of bird in the Media
Center; for a national anthem, you will see the flag of the country displayed.
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Atlas
Atlas opens with a map of the world. Begin your review of World Book maps by clicking any continent label;
then continue clicking to view progressively more detailed maps, showing countries, states, provinces, and
cities.
Click to hide
or show
Atlas Tools
Type to
filter map
list
Doubleclick an
item to
open it
Click to search by
maps
Click to browse
maps
Click to show or
hide related maps
Click to
zoom
map
Click to go
to the
related
article
Drag to
resize a
window
Atlas Controls
Atlas Tools
Map Search: Click the Map Search control in Atlas Tools. Type a few letters to filter the map list and the list
scrolls to the first matching map title. Double-click an item in the list or complete typing the location and
press the Return key to start your search.
Map Browse: Click the Map Browse control in Atlas Tools. Now you can navigate through the world by the
names of continents and countries.
You can drag a place name from any area of World Book or from any place of your system
to the Atlas icon on the toolbar to start a map search and go to the Atlas area.
The closest matching map appears.
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Atlas Features
Zoom Out: Click the Zoom button to move to progressively larger-scale maps containing the
originally selected map.
Overlays: Overlays are available for many countries and continents. When a map for which there
are overlays is selected, the overlay canister shows which overlays are available. These may
include population density, climate, average temperatures, annual precipitation, agriculture and
fishing, mining and manufacturing, terrain, and economy.
Hotspots: When your pointer is over a map hotspot it changes to:
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Go to Article: Click the Go to Article button to go to the article associated
with the map in view.
Zoom in: Click to reveal a more detailed map.
Article: Click to go to an article corresponding to the hotspot.
Related media: Click to go to a photo or other media corresponding to the hotspot.
All of the maps in the World Book Atlas can be dragged to an open document window of any
application that accepts graphics, such as TextEdit or Notepad.
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Time Frame
Use Time Frame to locate information related to a specific year, decade, century, millennium, or era. Time
Frame results are customized according to the choices you make. Some articles contain specially prepared
Timelines as supplements.
Click to hide
or show
Time Frame
Tools
Type to
filter
search
results
Double-click
an item to
open it
Click to
search by era
Click to search by
time period
Click to go
to related
media
Time Frame Tools
Time Frame provides two methods of searching, by Time Period or by Era. When searching by Time
Period, you enter a specific Time Frame, measured in years, decades, centuries, or millennia. When
searching by Era, you select from one of the preset eras, such as The Cold War or The American
Revolution.
Era: Click this control, then select one of the following eras from the Era pop-up menu.
• Aegean cultures: 3000–1200 B.C. • Ancient Persia: 550–331 B.C.
• Age of Reason: 1600’s–1700’s • Ancient Rome: 509 B.C.–A.D. 476
• American Civil War: 1861–1865 • Byzantine Empire: A.D. 395–1453
• American Revolution: 1775–1783 • Cold War: 1940’s–about 1990
• Ancient Egypt: 3100–1070 B.C. • European Exploration: 1400–1890
• Ancient Greece: 800–338 B.C. • French Revolution: 1789–1799
Drag to
resize a
window
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Click to search
by era
• Indians of Latin America: to 1532
• Industrial Revolution: 1700–1900
Choose an era
• Medieval Europe: 400’s–1500’s
• Mesopotamia: 3500–539 B.C.
Type to
filter your
search
results
• Mongol Empire: 1100’s–1294
• Prehistoric animals: to 3500 B.C.
• Prehistoric people: to 3500 B.C.
• Reformation: 1517–late 1500’s
Double-click an
item to open it
• Renaissance: 1300–1600
• Romantic movement: 1700’s–1800’s
• Soviet Union: 1917–1991
• Space Age: 1957–today
• World War I: 1914–1918
• World War II: 1939–1945
Time Period: Click this control, then enter a year in the date field and choose one of the following periods
from the Period pop-up menu.
Click to search
by time period
Choose a
period
Choose
a category
• Millennium (1,000 years).
• Century (100 years)
• Decade (10 years)
• Year
To focus your search, select a Category:
Type to filter your
search results
• Geography
• History
• Humanities
Double-click an
item to open it
• Industry and Technology
• Life Science
• Physical Science and Math
• Recreation
• Social Science
You can also select All Categories to search in.
Click the Search button or press Return to begin your search.
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Time Frame will assume you are entering years that are A.D. (default) unless you select B.C. If you select a
period other than Year after typing a date, the date will be reset to reflect the selected time period. (For
example, if you type 1952 and select Decade, and then start your search, the date will be reset to 1950.)
Use the arrow controls next to the Year field to move forward or backward in time by increments
corresponding to the time period selected. (For example, if Decade is selected, you will move in ten-year
increments when clicking the arrows.)
Viewing Search Results
Search results for all Time Frame searches are displayed as thumbnails. Click any thumbnail to go to the
corresponding article or media element. Position your pointer over any thumbnail to view a description of its
subject in the Status area at the bottom of the screen.
When you browse through the list of search results and select an item in the list, the Time Frame area scrolls
to that item and shows it highlighted. Dates within the time period you used in your Time Period search
appear highlighted in the resulting articles or media captions.
Type a few letters to filter the search results list and the list scrolls to the first matching item.
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What’s Online
The What’s Online area gives you access to World Book's extensive online functionality: Article Updates, Back
in Time articles, Special Reports, and other information from the Internet. Click the What’s Online icon on the
toolbar and then click any Online Tool to select it.
When you go to the What’s Online area and try to access the online information in World Book for the first
time, you will be asked to subscribe to the online access program. World Book includes a free one-year
subscription for online access to article updates, Special Reports, Back in Time articles, etc. After the free
period is over, you will be able to renew your subscription for a nominal fee. If you decide not to subscribe (or
not to renew your subscription), you will not receive online updates, but the World Book application will
continue to function and you will still be able to retrieve the “offline” content of the encyclopedia.
What’s Online Functions
• Downloadable updates that you can add to your copy of World Book are posted regularly. Click Update Now
to automatically download any new Article Updates and updates to Month in Brief and Web Sites. When you
start the Update Now process, a dialog with a progress bar appears to show the status of the download.
• Notification of online updates. You do not need to guess when online updates are available. World Book
automatically checks for updates every time you open it and are connected to the Internet—and once a day for
as long as it is running. If an update is found, the World Book icon in the Dock starts to spin and a dialog
appears suggesting that you use Update Now.
Click to view article updates
Click to download updates
To update your copy of World Book, choose
Click to view dayby-day major
news
Update Now from the World Book application
menu. Alternatively, you can press the icon in the
Dock and select Update Now from the menu that
appears.
You can turn on or off automatic update checking and
Click to
explore
websites
Click to
download historical
articles
notification in the Updates pane of World Book
Preferences.
• Click Update Now to download World Book updates for
articles, The Month in Brief, and websites links.
Click to
browse reports
collection
Click to go to
World Book
site
• Click Article Updates to view all article updates you
have downloaded. Click any article link to view the article
and its update in the Article area.
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• Click The Month in Brief to open a calendar with summaries of the major news events of each day of the
month. Click a date on the calendar to view the top news for that date. Click the right or left arrows at the top
of the calendar to move one month at a time or jump to a different year.
You can drag most news event pictures from Month In Brief to an application that accepts graphics,
such as TextEdit or the Notepad.
• Click Web Sites to explore websites reviewed and approved by World Book editors. Type search terms in the
entry fields (for example, “Apple” and “Computer”) and click Go to start the search. Click any underlined
website in the results list to go to that site.
• Click Back in Time to download historical articles from World Book’s chronological annotated online
archives. Choose a topic from the drop-down menu and then click a link to start retrieving the Back in Time
article. A dialog appears with a progress bar to show the status of the download. When the download is
complete, the article will be displayed in the Article viewing area. Each downloaded article is added
permanently to your copy of World Book.
• Click Special Reports to browse the Special Reports collection, prepared by World Book editors to
supplement the Encyclopedia articles. Select All Categories to search in, or narrow your search by selecting
one of the eight World Book topic categories: Geography, History, Humanities, Industry and Technology, Life
Science, Physical Science and Math, Recreation, and Social Science. Click a link to download the corresponding
report. A dialog with a progress bar appears to show the status of the download. When downloading is
complete, the article opens in the Article viewing area. Each downloaded article is added permanently to your
copy of World Book.
• Click World Book on the Web to go to the World Book website, where you can find educational resources for
parents, students, and teachers. A dialog appears letting you know that you are about to leave World Book to
go to World Book’s site on the Internet. When you click OK or press Return, your default web browser launches
and connects to the homepage of the World Book website.
World Book bears no responsibility for the content or practices, including usage fees, if any, of any websites
operated by independent organizations.
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Surf the Ages
Surf the Ages is an imaginative and historically accurate look at the past 5,500 years, presented as if the
Internet had existed when, for example, Plato and Aristotle debated the Socratic method; a broken-hearted
Shah built the Taj Mahal; and a determined Florence Nightingale changed the face of modern medicine.
Each time period, from 3500 B.C. to the 20th century A.D., has its own home page with links to other
imaginary websites from that era. You can visit them using an offline browser built into this edition of World
Book.
Click Surf the Ages on the Home Screen, choose it from the View menu, or click the Surf icon on the toolbar to
view simulated websites covering five and a half millennia. Check out what some news sites might have been
like if the web had existed since ancient times.
Surf the Ages Functions
Click Ancient Times, Middle Ages, or Modern Times on the Surf the Ages Home Screen to begin surfing. Then
choose from the four or five time periods for each age to view century home pages full of web features such
as e-zines, want ads, bookstores, and other types of imaginary websites.
View from Today: Although the Surf the Ages websites are fanciful, the material they
contain is based on fact. Click the View from Today link to learn what we now know and
think about a featured event, person, or idea, and to get links to World Book articles,
book lists, and real websites.
You can drag any place name found in Surf the Ages to the Atlas icon on the Toolbar to see the closest
World Book map from the real world.
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Using Sticky Notes
Use sticky notes to mark important information for later use. A sticky note can be placed in Articles, in the
Media Center, or in the Atlas, and remains in the location where you have created it. You can place, edit,
resize, move, and delete sticky notes. It is also possible to change any sticky note text to bold, italic, or
underlined style by selecting the text and choosing Sticky Note Text Style from the Sticky Notes menu. Click a
Sticky Note icon to reopen the placed sticky note. Drag the sticky note icon to reposition the note in the
article.
You can copy the content of a closed sticky note into Notepad or TextEdit by dragging the sticky note
icon to an open document window.
Click to
hide or
show
Navigation
Kit
Click to view
sticky notes
Click to place a sticky
note
Click to
edit title
Click inside a sticky note to
edit its content
Creating Sticky Notes
Click the Sticky Note icon on the toolbar or choose New Sticky Note from the Sticky Notes menu. The new
sticky note appears on the currently open article, media, table, or map.
The new sticky note is automatically opened so that you can enter text. You can close the sticky note by
clicking the close box in the upper-left corner or by choosing Close from the File menu.
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Choose Open Selection in Sticky Note from the Sticky Notes menu to create a new sticky note
containing currently selected text, or drag the selected text to the Sticky Note icon on the toolbar.
Deleting Sticky Notes
Choose Delete Sticky Note from the Sticky Notes menu to delete an open sticky note. If you have more than
one sticky note open, you should select the sticky note you want to delete by clicking it once before using this
command.
You can also delete a closed sticky note by dragging it to the Trash or by selecting it in the Sticky
Note list and clicking the Delete button on the Sticky Note list toolbar.
Changing Sticky Note Appearance
You can change the color and text style of sticky notes.
Choose Sticky Note Text Style from the Sticky Notes menu and then Bold, Italic, or Underline from the
submenu to use these text styles in an open sticky note.
Sticky Note Color
You can set the color for the next sticky note you create or change the color of an existing sticky note.
To set the color of the next sticky note you create, press the Sticky Note icon on the
toolbar, then choose a color. The Sticky Note icon changes to the new color.
To change the color of an existing sticky note, you can do one of the following:
• Open a sticky note and choose Set Sticky Note Color from the Sticky Notes menu, then
choose the color you want.
• Choose Sticky Notes List from the Sticky Notes menu or click the Navigation Kit icon in
the Tool Kit and open the Sticky Notes area. Select a note, several notes, or a folder with
notes whose color you want to change, then click the Change Color icon on the Sticky
Note list toolbar and choose the color you want.
• Control-click the sticky note whose color you want to change. Choose Sticky Note Color from the shortcut
menu that appears, and then choose the color you want.
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Organizing Your Sticky Notes
Use the Sticky Notes area in the Navigation Kit to view a list of your sticky notes, organize them in folders,
change their colors, or delete them.
• Go to a sticky note’s location by double-clicking it in the Sticky Notes list. The Sticky Notes list remains
open so that you can go to the locations of other sticky notes. Note that the icons in the Sticky Notes list
Click to delete an
item
Create a
folder
Double-click to
go to a placed
sticky note
Click to change sticky note color
indicate whether they are marking the location of an article,
sound, picture, video, animation, bubble view, map, or table.
• Add an organizing folder by clicking the folder icon on the
Sticky Notes list toolbar, or choose Create Sticky Notes Group
from the Sticky Notes menu.
• Group your sticky notes by dragging them into folders, or
select several sticky notes and choose Combine Into New
Group from the Sticky Notes menu.
• Change selected sticky notes’ color by clicking the Change
Color button.
• Delete selected sticky notes by clicking the Delete icon on
the Sticky Notes list toolbar, or choose Delete Sticky Note from
Double-click to
view a
shared sticky note
the Sticky Notes menu.
Sticky notes you have placed are marked in the list
according to the media the sticky notes are related to.
Sharing Sticky Notes
You can share sticky notes using Bonjour (formerly named “Rendezvous” on Mac OS X 10.3 and earlier)
by clicking the “Share my Sticky Notes” checkbox in the Sharing pane of World Book Preferences.
When another person using World Book—who also has elected to share sticky notes—enters your Ethernet or
AirPort network, all his or her sticky notes with a special network icon will appear in your articles, media
items, or maps, and a Shared Sticky Notes area will appear at the bottom of your Sticky Notes list in the
Navigation Kit. This window area has a folder containing all shared sticky notes in the other person’s Sticky
Notes list.
• View a shared sticky note by double-clicking it.
• Copy shared sticky notes by dragging them to the list of your own sticky notes. Shared sticky notes that
you copy contain the name the other person’s computer, the location of the sticky note, and the current date.
If you don’t copy them, shared sticky notes disappear when you or their owner leaves the network.
Printing Sticky Notes
You can print all your sticky notes, selected sticky notes, and shared ones. To print sticky notes, choose Print
Sticky Notes from the Sticky Notes menu.
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World Book Preferences
When you choose Preferences from the World Book application menu, the World Book Preferences dialog
appears, containing eight panes: General, Appearance, Window, Special Effects, Dictionary, Sharing, Speech,
and Updates. Using Preferences, you can customize your World Book settings.
General Pane
Click to open
General pane
Use these
options to set
Home Screen
effects
Use these controls to
specify History settings
Home Screen
These controls allow you to specify whether or not to launch World Book Home Screen on startup, to turn the
waterstream effects on or off, and to change the speed of the media floating on the Home Screen. You can
also decide whether to have music on the Home Screen and choose the default music theme.
History
With these options you can have World Book retain your history between sessions, specify the number of days
to be shown in the History List, and set the number of steps included in the Back and Forward drop-down
menus.
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Click to open Appearance
pane
Click to set the text
size in articles
Themes
Choose an appearance theme for World Book.
Article Text Size
Set small, medium, or large size for article text.
Window Pane
The “Open multiple windows” option allows you to open World Book contents in multiple resizable windows.
With the other options in this group, you can set article, media, and Tool Kit links to open in new windows.
Select the checkbox at the bottom of the pane to retain the position of windows after quitting World Book.
Click to open Window
pane
Click to turn on or off
multiple windows
Click to retain
position of windows
Use these options
to set window
behavior
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Special Effects Pane
Use these options to set
Bubble View behavior
Click to read useful
information on using Screen
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Click to open Special
Effects pane
Click to go to System
Preferences
Bubble Views
This is where you can set bubble view options, turn autospinning on or off and show or hide hotspots.
Screen Saver
World Book images can be displayed in a special 2006 World Book Screen Saver. Click the Open Desktop &
Screen Saver Preferences button to open the corresponding System Preferences pane and customize the World
Book Screen Saver.
Dictionary Pane
In this pane you can set preferences for the built-in World Book Dictionary.
Set the number of steps
for Dictionary history
Click to open
Dictionary pane
Choose whether or not to
have speech feedback in
the Dictionary
Set what happens
when you doubleclick a word
Use different colors to
mark parts of word
definitions
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History
Specify the number of words to be retained for back and forward navigation.
Speech
Decide whether to hear the word displayed in the definition area.
Navigation
Decide whether to open the definition of a word when you double-click or just select it.
Use Colors
You can use different colors to mark different parts of the word definitions. Click the checkbox to turn this
feature on. Click the color icon next to the part of the word definition you want to change and specify a
different color for it.
Sharing Pane
Select the “Look for shared Sticky Notes” or “Share my Sticky Notes” checkboxes to be able to see for other
people’s sticky notes or share your own. You can decide whether to share all sticky notes or only those in
selected folders. You can also set a password to restrict access to your shared sticky notes.
Click to open
Sharing pane
Select to see shared sticky
notes
Click to share your sticky
notes with others
Select to set a password for
your shared sticky notes
Choose which
sticky notes to
share
Click to open the system’s
Sharing Preferences
Click to read useful
information on sharing
sticky notes
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Speech Pane
Click to turn speech
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Click to specify
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Click to open
Speech pane
Click to turn Voice
Recognition on or off in
System Preferences
Click to read useful
information on using voice
recognition
Speech Capabilities
Turn the Speech Capabilities option on to navigate through World Book using voice commands.
Spoken Feedback
By selecting this checkbox, you can specify when you will get spoken feedback from World Book.
Voice Recognition
You can open the Speech pane of System Preferences from here and turn Speakable Items on.
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Select to get Online
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Click to open
Updates pane
Select a method of
notification about
available updates
Checking for Online Updates
Turn these features on to check for updates automatically each time World Book is launched and once a day
while it is running.
Notification of Online Updates
When updates are available online, you will see a special animated dock icon, a pop-up message, or both,
depending on your selection.
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Notepad
Notepad is a simple and customizable word processing application included with World Book. Notepad allows
you to easily create documents using text and graphics from World Book.
Launch Notepad by choosing it from the Tools menu of the World Book.
Notepad Functions
Customizing the toolbar: Unlike most simple word processing applications, Notepad has a
customizable toolbar, which allows the user to enhance its features, creating a more advanced word
processor for more experienced users. Click the Customize icon on the toolbar or choose Customize
Toolbar from the View menu to open the Customize Toolbar sheet. Drag controls from the sheet to the
Toolbar to add them, or drag them off the toolbar to remove them. To reset the default Notepad toolbar
arrangement, drag the default set of controls to the Toolbar.
Searching in World Book articles and looking for word definitions. You can select the text in a
Notepad document and search for the information related to it in all World Book articles by clicking
the Lookup in World Book icon located in the Notepad toolbar. Click the Lookup in World Book
Dictionary icon to search for word definitions in World Book Dictionary.
Switching to other World Book applications: You can easily switch back and forth between Notepad and
World Book. When you are using Notepad, just click the World Book icon on the Notepad toolbar to go to
World Book. Return to Notepad using the keyboard shortcut Control + Command + N. This can be very handy
if you are collecting materials from World Book to use in a report.
You can drag selected text from articles, captions, tables, and the Dictionary in World Book to any
open Notepad document. You can also drag most media elements such as maps, pictures, and
timelines.
Saving Notepad documents: When saving a Notepad document, you can choose from four available formats:
• Notepad Document (“.mkn”): This format, the default for Notepad documents, saves documents with both
pictures and text. Notepad .mkn documents support page breaks, page numbers, headers and footers, and
text wrapping. Files with the .mkn extension can be opened only in Notepad.
• Notepad Text (“.mkt”): This is the simplest text format. It can be opened in any other word processing
application, but does not retain any formatting.
• Rich Text Format (“.rtf”): This is a standard format which can be opened in most word processing
applications, while retaining text style, alignment, and color. Saving your Notepad document in this format
allows it to be read in most word processing applications such as Word, AppleWorks, and TextEdit.
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• Rich Text Format with attachments (“.rtfd”): This format allows you to have pictures and other media
elements attached to the file. Saving your Notepad document in this format allows it to be read in TextEdit,
where the file will retain text style, alignment, color, and all attachments.
Formatting Your Document:
• Inserting page breaks: Place the insertion point where the page break is needed and choose Insert Page
Break from the Edit menu.
• Show/Hide margins: Margins are shown by default. To see your document the way it will appear when you
print it, choose Show Margins from the View menu.
• Highlighting Paragraphs: To highlight a single paragraph, choose Hightlight Paragraph from the View
menu.
• Page numbering: Choose Page Numbers from the Format menu and set the starting page, position, and
alignment of the page numbers. You can also choose whether or not to show the page number on the first
page.
• Inserting headers and footers: Choose Header and Footer from the Format menu, select the Header and/or
Footer checkboxes, and type in the text you want to appear on every page of your Notepad document. You
can also set the alignment of your headers and footers.
• Formatting paragraphs: You can specify settings for any paragraph by choosing Paragraph from the Format
menu and then changing paragraph settings in the sheet that appears.
Using Apple Services
Because Notepad is a native Mac OS X application, you can use standard Apple Services by choosing Services
from the Notepad application menu. For example, you can have the text in your Notepad document turned
into an e-mail, opened in a TextEdit document, or placed automatically on a sticky note.
Spellchecking
Choose Spelling from the Edit menu to use the built-in Apple dictionary to check the spelling of your Notepad
document. To have spelling checked as you type, choose Check Spelling As You Type from the Spelling
submenu.
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Working with Graphics
• Adding Graphics: To insert a photograph or other graphic image into your Notepad document, choose
Import Image from the File menu. In the Open dialog that appears, select the graphic file you want to import.
Deselect the “Float over text” checkbox if you want to place the image in line with the text. You can always
place the graphics floating over text later by choosing Float Over Text from the Image submenu of the Format
menu so that a checkmark appears or disappears next to the command.
You can also add a graphic image by dragging it or by copying and pasting it using the Clipboard.
• Resizing Graphics: To change the size of a graphic image that has already been added to a Notepad
document, just drag one of its handles. The image will be resized proportionally.
To resize an image without maintaining its proportions, press the Shift key while dragging a corner handle.
Alternatively, you can double-click an image and adjust the size using the slider on the sheet that appears.
You can also open this sheet by choosing Resize Image from the Image submenu of the Format menu. To
change the size proportionally, leave the “Keep proportions” checkbox selected.
To make large pictures fit the current page size, click the Fit to Page button. Click the Original Size button to
go back to the original image size. Alternatively, you can restore the original size by choosing Restore Image
Size from the Image submenu of the Format menu.
• Aligning Graphics: Open the Image submenu of the Format menu to choose alignment options for your
image.
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World Book Dictionary
Use World Book Dictionary to look up any word you find in World Book or any word you type in.
Launching World Book Dictionary
You can launch World Book Dictionary from within World Book by choosing Dictionary from the Tools menu.
Alternatively, you can launch World Book Dictionary without launching World Book by double-clicking the
World Book Dictionary icon in the application folder. This can be useful if you want to look up a word quickly
and don’t want to launch World Book first.
Click to see the next
found word
Click to see the
previous
found word
Type a word to
search for
Click to start or stop
hearing the definition
Click to find selected text in World
Book articles
Click the Clock icon to
open the History drawer
Click to open a pop-up
menu and choose an
action to perform
Definition of the found
word
Choose
related entries for the
found word
Click a word to see its
definition
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Looking for a Word
In the Search field, type the entire word you want to look up or just the first few letters. The definition of the
first matching word appears in the definition area in the upper part of the World Book Dictionary window. A
list of all matching words appears in the lower part of the window.
Using the World Book Dictionary Controls
Use the arrow icons to go back and forward through the words that you have looked up. To start or stop the
computer reading the definition of the currently displayed word, click the Speaker icon on the toolbar. Select
text in the definition area and click the Search in World Book icon to find occurrences of this text in World
Book articles. Click the clock icon to open the History drawer and see a list of the words that you have looked
up during the current session.
Using the Action Icon
Select a word or words, click the action icon, and then choose a command from the pop-up menu
to perform the following actions.
• Open Selection: Open the definition of selected word in the same window.
• Open Selection in New Window: Open the definition of selected word in a new window.
• Open All Selected Words: Open the definition of each of the selected words in new windows.
• Search for Selection: Search through the dictionary for the selected word, display it in the search result list,
and open its definition.
• Open Dictionary Preferences: Open the Dictionary Preferences dialog where you can specify default
settings for World Book Dictionary. For more information, see Changing the World Book Dictionary Preferences
on page 44.
Using the Related Entries Pop-Up Menu
Choose a command in this pop-up menu to search for a word in the following ways.
• Exact Matches: Search for the words containing letters that exactly match the letters you have typed.
• Similar Words: Search for words similar to the specified one.
• Found in Examples: See a list of words that have examples containing the specified word.
• Found in Definitions: See a list of words that have definitions containing the specified word.
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Changing the World Book Dictionary Preferences
Choose Preferences from the World Book Dictionary application menu to open the Preferences dialog, where
you can customize the following settings.
In the General pane:
Use the Themes pop-up menu to choose a theme for your Dictionary.
Use the History controls to specify the number of words to be shown in the History drawer and set the number
of words for back/forward navigation.
In the Speech area, you can turn on or off the audible pronunciation of the word displayed in the definition
area.
You can also decide whether to open the definition of a word when you double-click or just select it.
In the Colors pane:
Using the Syntax Coloring controls, you can choose different colors to mark different parts of the word
definitions. Click the checkbox to turn this feature on or off. Click the color icon next to the part of the word
definition you want to change and specify a different color for it.
You can restore the default settings of your Dictionary by clicking the Revert to Default Settings button.
Using Speech Commands
World Book Dictionary supports speech commands. If Speech Recognition in System Preferences is turned on,
you can work with the Dictionary using the following speakable commands.
• “Look up in the dictionary”: Opens the selected word in the dictionary.
• “Pronounce please”: Pronounces the word currently displayed in the front window.
• “Definition please”: Reads the definition of the word currently displayed in the front window.
• “Go back”: Goes one step back.
• “Go forward”: Goes one step forward.
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World Book Atlas
Use World Book Atlas to find the distance between two locations. Enter your starting and ending locations.
The Distance Calculator of World Book Atlas plots them on both a three-dimensional globe and a flat map and
displays the distance. The Distance Calculator can also determine how far it is between a set location and your
pointer’s location.
Launching World Book Atlas
To launch World Book Atlas, double-click the World Book Atlas application icon. The application is located in
2006 World Book folder inside the Applications folder.
Click to rotate the globe
to the left or right, or stop
rotating
Click to
switch to
another
view
Type in the
first
location
Type in
the
second
location
Distance
between
locations
Navigation
map
Click to turn the Day/
Night mode on or off
Click to turn the
Grid on or off
Click to open Help
Click to print
the view
Click to
open the
Settings
drawer
Drag to
rotate
For more information on working with World Book Atlas, see World Book Atlas Help. You can open World Book
Atlas Help by clicking the Help button on the application window, or choosing World Book Atlas Help from the
Help menu.
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Speech
This edition of World Book has been enhanced to take full advantage of the Apple Computer speech
technologies built into Mac OS X. You can search World Book using voice commands and touch-typing and
have any World Book article read aloud to you. While these capabilities were designed with vision-impaired
users in mind, we think that all users will enjoy using them.
Note: To use World Book's Speech Capabilities, you first need to turn on Mac OS X Speech Recognition. In
System Preferences, open the Speech Preferences pane. Click the Speech Recognition tab and then, in the On/
Off pane, turn on the Apple Speakable Items option. The round Feedback window appears. While still in the
On/Off pane, you can click the Helpful Tips button for useful advice on using this feature.
Launching World Book by Voice Command
You can launch World Book using voice commands. Press and hold down the Esc key, say “Hello World Book,”
and then release the key. World Book launches.
How to Find an Article and Have World Book Read it to You
Here’s a typical search you can do. In this example the user is searching for an article about cats, but you can
search for any of the more than 25,800 articles in World Book.
YOU: “Search, please.” (Remember to hold down the Esc key while speaking.)
WORLD BOOK: [opens search window] “Ready to Search!”
YOU: [type “cat” and press the Return key]
WORLD BOOK: “Searching for cat.”
WORLD BOOK: “Search complete. Thirteen topics found.” [plays cat “Meow!” sound]
YOU: “What’s here?”
WORLD BOOK: “Article - cat.”
YOU: (select any article in the list) “Tell me more.”
WORLD BOOK: (starts reading the search results list).
YOU: (press the Enter key on the keyboard to select any article when it is read): “Read to me.”
WORLD BOOK: (starts reading the article aloud).
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Controlling Article Reading
Once World Book starts reading an article, you can use keyboard commands (or commands from the Speech
submenu in the Edit menu) to control the process:
Speak Article Text: Option + Command + Period
Speak Selection: Option + Command + Comma
Stop Speaking: Command + Period
Pause/Continue Speaking: Command + Shift + Comma.
Tips for Using Speech Capabilities
• Hold down the Esc key while giving commands, and then immediately release it.
• Don’t crowd the microphone. For best results, sit two feet away.
• Shut off the music on the Home Screen or switch to the article area before giving a command. Silence
around you is best if you are using voice commands.
Speakable Commands for World Book
Speakable CommandResult
Hello World Book Launches World Book
Search, please Opens the Search Area
Read to me World Book starts reading the current
article or provides detailed information
about the current area
What's here? World Book gives you a short description
of the current area
Tell me more World Book provides information specific
to the current area (for example, it reads
a list of search results)
Definition please World Book reads the definition of the word
currently displayed in the dictionary
Go back World Book goes one step back
Go forward World Book goes one step forward
Go to related article World Book goes to the parent article for
media, a timeline, or a map
Go to Article World Book goes to the Article area
Go to Media World Book goes to the Media area
Go to Atlas World Book goes to the Atlas area
Go to Just Looking World Book goes to the Just Looking area
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Switching Between World Book Applications
You can use speakable commands to switch between World Book, Notepad, and World Book Dictionary. For
example, say "Switch to Notepad" and Notepad opens (or is brought to the front if it is already open).
Troubleshooting
If the speech recognition features in World Book do not appear to be working, it may help to turn Speakable
Items off and then on again in the Speech Preferences pane of System Preferences. If this doesn’t solve the
problem, open the Speech pane of World Book Preferences and click the Help button for additional tips on
using World Book Speech Capabilities.
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