Franklin BOOKMAN MWD-440 User manual

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Contents

WelcometotheworldofBOOKMAN!

BOOKMAN is a powerful, portable

electronicreferencewithabuilt-inbook

and a slot in the back for more books.

With this

Dictionary & Thesaurus

you

canfindover83,000dictionaryentries,

41,000thesaurusentrieswith496,000

synonyms, correct misspellings, save

wordstoyour Userlist,andplaythree

fun,educationalwordgames.To learn

how to use other books, read their

User’s Guides.

Installing Batteries and Cartridges ................................ 4

Selecting Books............................................................. 5

Using the Color Keys ..................................................... 5

Changing Settings ......................................................... 6

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

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

Finding Synonyms ......................................................... 8

Finding a Letter or a Series of Letters ........................... 9

Correcting Misspellings................................................. 10

Finding Confusables™.................................................... 10

Highlighting Words ........................................................ 11

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

Using the User List ........................................................ 12

Changing Game Settings ............................................... 14

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

Function Keys

CLEAR Clears to

Enter your word

MENU Shows the main menus.

THES

(red) Shows a thesaurus entry.

CONF

(green) Shows Confusables™.

GAMES

(yellow) Shows the games list.

LIST (blue) Shows the User list menu.

CARD Exits the slelected book.

ON/OFF Turns BOOKMAN on or off.

Key Guide

Other Keys

BACK

Backs up, erases letters, or

stops a highlight.

CAP

Shifts keys to type punctuation.

ENTER

Enters a search, selects a

menu item, or starts a highlight.

HELP

Shows help messages.

?✱

Types a

to stand for an

unknown letter in a word;

shifted types an

✻

to stand for

a series of unknown letters.

Direction Keys

Move in indicated direction.

SPACE

Types a space or pages down.

Star Key Combinations*

✩

CARD

Sendsawordbetweenbooks.

✩

+ DN Shows next entry or match.

✩

+ UP

Showspreviousentryormatch.

✩

+ PShows the Path list.

✩

+ TShows a thesaurus entry.

➤ 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 cartridges and listed in their

User’s Guides. For more informa-

tion, read “Using the Color Keys.”

* Hold

✩

while pressing the other key.

BOOKMAN model 440 uses two

CR2032,3-voltbatteries.Hereishow

to install or replace them.

Warning: When the batteries lose

power or are removed from BOOK-

MAN, information that you entered in

itsbuilt-inbook,and inaninstalledcar-

tridge, will be erased.

1. Turn BOOKMAN over.

2. Slide off its battery cover in

the direction of the triangle.

3. Install the batteries with their

plus signs facing you.

4. Replace the battery cover.

Warning: Never install or remove a

cartridge when BOOKMAN is on. If

you do, information that you entered

in its built-in book, and in an installed

cartridge, will be erased.

1. Turn BOOKMAN off.

2. Turn BOOKMAN over.

3. Align the tabs on the car-

tridge with the notches in

the slot.

4. Press the cartridge down

until it snaps into place.

Installing CartridgesInstalling Batteries

➤ Removing Cartridges

Warning: When you remove a

cartridge to install another, informa-

tion that you entered into the

removed cartridge will be erased.

➤Resuming Where You Left Off

You can turn off BOOKMAN at

any screen. When you turn

BOOKMAN on again, the screen

that you last viewed appears.

Selecting Books Using the Color Keys

Thered,green,yellow,andbluekeyson

your BOOKMAN change functions ac-

cording to which book is selected.

Whenthebuilt-inbookisselected,the

color keys function as labelled on the

BOOKMAN keyboard. When a car-

tridgebookisselected,thecolorkeys

function as labelled on that cartridge.

Remember,thecolorkeysforBOOK-

MAN books in cartridges function as

labelled on their cartridges, not as on

the keyboard.

Once you have installed a cartridge in

your BOOKMAN, you must select

which book you want to use.

1. Turn BOOKMAN on.

2. Press CARD.

These are sample books.

3. Press or to highlight the

book you want to use.

4. Press ENTER to select it.



➤ About Screen Illustrations

Some screen illustrations in this

User’s Guide may differ from what

you see on screen. This does not

mean that your BOOKMAN is

malfunctioning.

Changing Settings

You can adjust the font size, shutoff

time, and screen contrast.

Font size

changes the number of lines of text

thatappearonscreen.Theshutofftime

ishowlongBOOKMANstaysonifyou

forget to turn it off.

1. Press CLEAR.

2. Press MENU.

3. Press the arrow keys to

highlight the Setup menu.

4. Highlight Set Font, Set

Shutoff, or Set Contrast.

5. Press ENTER.

6. Highlight a setting.

Or press or if you selected

Set Contrast

To exit without changing settings,

press BACK.

7. Press ENTER to select it.

Before you start using a book, you

should view a demonstration of what

it can do.

If the book is built-in, the demonstra-

tionautomaticallyappearsthefirsttime

that you select it. To stop the demon-

stration, press CLEAR. To disable it,

press MENU, highlight the Setup

menu, and then select

Disable Demo

Ifthebookisinacartridge,selectView

Demo from the Setup menu to view

its demonstration.

Viewing a Demonstration

➤ Help is Always at Hand

You can view a help message at

virtually any screen by pressing HELP.

Press the direction keys to read it. To

exit help, press BACK or HELP.

➤ Follow the Arrows

The flashing arrows on the right of

the screen show which arrow keys

you can press to move around

menus or view more text.

Finding Definitions

It’s easy to look up a word in the dic-

tionary. Simply type it at the Entry

screen and press ENTER. Try this ex-

ample.

1. Press CLEAR.

2. Type a word (e.g., knowl-

edge).

3. Press ENTER.

This is a dictionary entry.

4. Press or SPACE to move

down.

5. Hold

✩

and press DN to view

the next dictionary entry

alphabetically listed.

6. Press CLEAR when done.

FindingWordsinDefinitions

Search for a Word

lets you find all of

thedefinitionsinwhichaspecificword

appears.

1. Press CLEAR.

2. Press MENU.

3. Select Search for a word from

the CMDS menu.

4. Type a word (e.g., legal).

5. Press ENTER.

6. Hold

✩

and press DN to view

the next definition with your

word in it.

To see the previous one, hold

✩

and press UP.

7. Press or SPACE to read.

8. Press CLEAR when done.

Finding Synonyms

WhenyouseeTHESflashonce inthe

upper right of the screen, that word

has a thesaurus entry.

1. Press CLEAR.

2. Type a word (e.g., splendid).

3. Press THES.

Or hold

✩

and press T.

This is the first thesaurus entry.

4. Press to view synonyms.

5. Hold

✩

and press DN to view

more thesaurus entries.

To return to the previous thesau-

rus entry, hold

✩

and press UP.

6. Press CLEAR when done.

Finding Synonyms

➤ Understanding Thesaurus

Entries

Thesaurus entries consist of

thesaurus meanings and a

synonym list. A thesaurus meaning

is a definition shared by a list of

synonyms.

➤ Two Ways to Back Up

Pressing BACK takes you back to

the previous screen you viewed.

You can continue to back up until

you get to

Enter your word

Holding

✩

and pressing UP takes

you to the previous screen of

similar information. For example, if

you were viewing a dictionary

definition, you would go to the

previous definition.

Finding a Letter

If you are uncertain about a letter in a

word,type a question markinplace of

each unknown letter.

1. Type a word with ?’s.

2. Press ENTER.

3. Highlight a match.

4. Press ENTER to define it.

5. Press CLEAR when done.

Finding a Series of Letters

To find prefixes, suffixes, and other

parts of words, type an asterisk in a

word. Asterisks stand for a series of

letters. NOTE: If you type an asterisk

atthe beginning of a word, it may take

a while to find the matching words.

1. Type a word with an ✱.

To type an asterisk, hold CAP

and press

?✱

2. Press ENTER.

3. Highlight a match.

4. Press ENTER to define it.

5. Press CLEAR when done.

➤ Spelling Finding Tips

You can also use ?’s to help solve

crossword puzzles. For example, if

the second letter of a five-letter word

and its last letter is

. Enter

?h??w

to see possible answers.

If you misspell a word, don’t worry. It

will be corrected automatically.

1. Type a misspelled word.

To erase a letter, press BACK.

2. Press ENTER.

3. Press to highlight a

correction.

4. Press ENTER to view its

dictionary entry.

To go back to the correction list,

press BACK.

5. Press CLEAR when done.

Correcting Misspellings Finding Confusables™

Confusablesarehomonymsandspell-

ing variants that are easy to confuse.

If a word has Confusables, CONF will

flash once in the upper right of the

screen.

1. Type a word (e.g., rein).

2. Press CONF.

Confusables come with identify-

ing words.

3. Press ENTER and then high-

light a word.

4. Press ENTER to define it, or

press THES to view its thesau-

rus meaning.

5. Press CLEAR when done.

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