Partner ER400 Professional User Manual
Partner® ER400 Professional User's Manual
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CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION..................................................................................... 2
General View...................................................................................... 3
Power Supply ..................................................................................... 4
Initialization ........................................................................................ 4
Keyboard............................................................................................ 5
Display ............................................................................................... 6
Main Menu ......................................................................................... 7
DICTIONARIES....................................................................................... 8
REFERENCE ........................................................................................ 12
Business Correspondence............................................................... 12
Phrasebook ...................................................................................... 13
Popular Idioms ................................................................................. 14
Irregular Verbs ................................................................................. 14
User's Dictionary .............................................................................. 14
Grammar.......................................................................................... 15
ORGANIZER ......................................................................................... 16
Telephones ...................................................................................... 16
Schedule .......................................................................................... 16
Calculator......................................................................................... 18
Local Time........................................................................................ 18
World Time....................................................................................... 18
Currency Conversion ....................................................................... 19
Metric Conversion ............................................................................ 19
MISCELLANEOUS................................................................................ 19
Game ............................................................................................... 19
PC communication ........................................................................... 20
Setup................................................................................................ 21
Interface Language ..................................................................... 21
Dictionary.................................................................................... 21
Organizer .................................................................................... 22
Security and Memory.................................................................. 23
Settings....................................................................................... 24
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INTRODUCTION
Congratulations on purchasing the Partner® ER400 Professional! This product is
the result of the combined efforts of Ectaco’s linguists, engineers, and
programmers, and represents the last generation of the highest-performance
integrated linguistic tools available. Partner
®
ER400 Professional will be
especially helpful for the professionals dealing with both English and Russian, as
it contains all you may need for successful career.
The Partner
®
ER400 Professional features:
Main vocabulary contains more than 950,000 words in English-Russian &
Russian-English general and specialized dictionaries:
General – 750,000 words
Medical – 29,000 words
Business – 22,000 words
Telecommunication & Computers – 21,000 words
Law – 65,000 words
Oil – 39,000 words
Financial – 54,000 words
Business correspondence phrases
Recording function for new words
Advanced English speech synthesis
Instant reverse translation
Request History list
Award-winning Vector Ultima
bilingual spell-checking system
Electronic English Grammar book
English irregular verbs
A selection of the most popular American idioms
English/Russian phrasebook
128K English/Russian personal organizer for scheduling and telephone
numbers, equipped with search function
Metric and currency converters
Local and World time
High-speed data exchange with a PC
Bilingual interface
Data protection system
Slang lock
External power jack for AC operation
9 As continuous efforts are made by the manufacturer to ensure the best
quality and performance of the Partner
®
products, some characteristics of the
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device you have purchased may slightly differ from their description in this
manual.
The standard package includes a CD with the PC-Link program and dictionary
software for various operating systems. Set of the dictionaries and their contents
may be different from those stored in the ER400 Professional.
General View
The general view and external features of the Partner® ER400 Professional are
shown below.
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Power Supply
The ER400 Professional is powered by two AAA (LR03) batteries. When the
batteries become weak, a warning message will be displayed.
In order to prevent excessively discharging the batteries and undergoing a
resulting loss of data in RAM, the Say function will be disabled if battery power is
low. To restore full functionality of the device and to avoid risk of losing user data,
replace the complete set of batteries as soon as possible. Do not mix old and
new batteries.
9 If you plug in the AC adapter, full functionality of the device will be restored
during 1 minute.
9 It is recommended to use an external power supply while using the speech
and PC-Link functions.
How to replace the batteries
y Ensure the power is off. Press ON/OFF to turn the device off.
9 Never try to remove batteries from the device when the power is on. This can
seriously damage the device. If you experience difficulty turning the device
off, press the RESET button on the right-hand side of the keyboard (over the
O button) and reset the system.
y Remove the battery compartment cover by sliding it away from the device.
y Remove the used batteries and replace them with new ones.
9 When replacing the batteries, you have 2 minutes to place new ones in the
device without risk of losing any data stored in RAM. Do not exceed the 2minute limit! Neither the manufacturer nor the dealer may be held
responsible for loss of user data.
y Make sure to place the batteries according to the polarity marks (+ -) inside
the compartment.
y Replace the battery compartment cover by sliding it toward the device. Make
sure the cover sits in place properly.
9 The ER400 Professional is equipped with a jack for external power supply.
9 Use of an inappropriate external power supply may cause failure of the
device and may void the warranty. The AC/DC adapter should provide 6V
and min 300mA DC.
Initialization
The initialization routine is started
▫ when ER400 Professional is turned on for the first time;
▫ when you remove the batteries (e.g. during replacement);
▫ after the system has been reset with the RESET button.
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9 The RESET button is located on the right-hand side of the keyboard (over
the O button). It can be accessed with any thin object like a paper clip. Never
use a needle or pin for this purpose since it can damage the device.
y If you see Initialize system?(y/n), press the N button to abort initialization and
customization.
y Then you will see the Delete user's data? message. Press the N button to
save your data.
The System initialized! message indicates that system initialization has been
completed and the factory defined default settings have been restored.
Keyboard
The standard American QWERTY keyboard is combined with the standard
Russian layout.
To enter the additional letters marked over the buttons, press ALT+ the desired
button.
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To enter such letters in caps, press SHIFT+ALT+ the desired button.
ER400 Professional features standard and phonetic modes of entering Russian
letters:
Russian standard mode allows you to enter Russian letters corresponding to the
keyboard marks.
Russian phonetic mode allows you to enter Russian letters by their phonetic
consonance with English letters, e.g. you can press the F button to enter the
Russian letter “Ф”.
The table below shows the Russian and English layouts in the Russian phonetic
mode.
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q
я
w
ш/щ e е/э
r
р
t
т
y
ы
u
у/ю i и
o
о
p
п
a
а
s
с
d
д
f
ф
g
г/ж
h
х
j
й
k
к
l
л
z
з
x
ь/ъ
c
ц/ч
v
в
b
б
n
н
m
м
9 Unlike PC keyboards, there is no need to keep a key (such as SHIFT) down
while pressing another one. It is enough to press it only once and release.
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Key1+Key2 here and further on signifies the combination of keys to use – first press and
release Key1, then press and release Key2.
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Press ALT to enter letters shown after the slash (/) in the table.
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The available set of national characters is dependent on which language input
mode is selected. Language modes can be toggled by pressing the Ù button.
ENG or RUS is displayed in the upper right corner respectively.
Function shortcut keys
ON/OFF Turn the device On or Off
RESET Re-initialize system
SPELLER (SHIFT+ uor t)
Launch spell-checker
Other shortcut keys open sections corresponding to the marks over the buttons
(press SHIFT+ shortcut key; for example, SHIFT+DICT).
Control and edit keys
Í, Î Move cursor / highlight / switch main menu
Ð, Ï Highlight / scroll lines / switch main menu / change
values. Use Ï to switch between the Insert and
Overwrite modes.
u, t
Scroll pages
ENTER Execute
Enter space
ESC Close active window / cancel / return to the previous
page
ALT Enter additional letters marked over the buttons
(SHIFT)
Type in uppercase
ÍBS Delete character to the left of the cursor
Ù
Switch translation direction
SHIFT+Ï Open additional symbols
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SHIFT+Ð Open record to edit
SHIFT+ ÍBS Delete record
Pronounce English headword
SHIFT+
Pronounce English translation(s)
A, P Specify AM or PM (when the 12-hour format is set)
Display
Partner® ER400 Professional features a high-resolution screen (160x64 pixels).
The indicator line is at the top of the display and shows the following indicators:
SHIFT key pressed
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Press u, t to move between three lines of symbols. Press the corresponding
number button to enter the desired symbol.
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Current record opened in the edit mode
Insert mode selected
Batteries low
Device locked
Daily Alarm on
Vertical scrolling or paging enabled (more text available)
Horizontal scrolling enabled
Main Menu
The ER400 Professional MAIN MENU consists of four menus: Dictionaries,
Reference, Organizer, and Miscellaneous, which conveniently organize access to
the various sections.
y To display the MAIN MENU, turn the device on or close a current section.
y Move between the menus by using u, t. Select the desired section by
using Ð, Ï.
y To open the highlighted section, press ENTER.
The icons shown in the MAIN MENU represent the following applications:
Dictionaries Menu
Main Dictionary
Law Dictionary
Medical Dictionary
Oil Dictionary
Business Dictionary
Financial Dictionary
Telecom Dictionary
Reference Menu
Business Correspondence
Irregular Verbs
Phrasebook
User's Dictionary
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Popular Idioms
Grammar
Organizer Menu
Telephones
World Time
Schedule
Currency
Calculator
Metrics
Local Time
Miscellaneous Menu
Game
Setup
PC Communication
DICTIONARIES
The Dictionaries menu includes EnglishÙRussian General and specialized
dictionaries: Medical, Business, Telecommunication & Computers (Telecom),
Law, Oil, Financial, containing over 950,000 words in total.
y Press SHIFT+DICT to enter the Main Dictionary.
9 Following system initialization, the English-Russian dictionary is selected by
default.
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