Franklin TMQ-106 User manual
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USER’S
GUIDE
MODEL TMQ-106
Thesaurus
QUEEN’S ENGLISH
with Spelling Corrector
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Goes back or erases a typed letter.
Clears to the Ready screen or
stops the Quick Demo.
Gives the Confusables™ of a word.
Enters a word or scrolls to the
right.
Shows the Games menu.
Shows a help message.
Shows the next entry or word.
Turns the product on or off.
Shows the previous entry or word.
Types a ? to stand for any letter.
In games, ends a round and
shows the thesaurus entries.
Types an ✽ to stand for any series
of letters.
Scrolls up or types an apostrophe.
Scrolls down or types a full stop.
Types a space or moves right.
Erases a letter or moves left.
Key Guide
CLEAR
CONF
ENTER
BACK
✽
?
PREV
ON/OFF
NEXT
HELP
GAMES
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Getting Started
1. Press ON/OFF.
The Quick Demo appears. You can stop the
demo at any time by pressing
CLEAR
.
2. Press or to adjust the contrast at
the Ready screen.
You can only adjust the contrast here.
3. If the screen is still blank, you may need
to change the battery.
See “Product Information”to learn how.
✓Disabling the Demo
You probably do not want to view the
Quick Demo every time you start. To dis-
able the demo, type
✽✽
d
at the Ready
screen, then press
ENTER
. To enable the
demo, enter
✽✽
d
again.
✓Resuming Where You Left Off
To save battery life, this product will auto-
matically shut off within two minutes.
If this product is turned off for any reason,
you will return to the last screen that you
viewed. Note: This will only work if you
have turned the demonstration off.
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Most thesaurus entries include a brief defini-
tion, or meaning core, and a related list of syn-
onyms or Classmates. (Classmates are words
related by subject.) Some entries include idi-
oms and antonyms. Note: If a word has no
thesaurus entry,
Correct word
will appear
when you enter it.
1. Type a word (e.g.,
tardy
).
To erase a letter, press
BACK
or .
2. Press
ENTER
.
3. Press
ENTER
again to scroll through its
definition.
To stop scrolling, press
BACK
. You can
also press or to scroll slowly.
4. Press repeatedly to view its
synonyms or Classmates.
Looking Up Words
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Looking Up Words
5. Continue pressing to view its
idioms, if any.
6. Continue pressing to view its
antonyms, if any.
7. Press
BACK
to return to your word.
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Looking Up Words
✓Follow the Arrows
The flashing arrows at the right of the
screen show which arrow keys you can
press to view more words.
Remember, whenever you see a flashing
right arrow, you can press
ENTER
to auto-
matically scroll to the right.
✓Help is at Hand
At most displays, you can view an appro-
priate help message by pressing
HELP
. To
scroll the help automatically, press
ENTER
.
To exit a help message, press
BACK
.
✓Viewing Multiple Entries
When a word has more than one thesau-
rus entry, a message such as
Entry 1 of 5
appears before its first entry.
To view its other thesaurus entries, press
NEXT
. To view a previous entry, press
PREV
. If you press
NEXT
after its last en-
try,
No more!
appears.
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Viewing Confusables™
Confusables are commonly confused words
such as homonyms and spelling variants. When
a
C
flashes to the right of a word in a thesaurus
entry, that word has Confusables. Try this
example.
1. Type
reign
.
2. Press
ENTER
.
Notice the flashing
C
at the right of the
screen.
3. Press
CONF
.
4. Press to view more Confusables.
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Whenever you enter a misspelled word, a list
of corrections and similar words appear. Note:
If you enter a correctly spelled word that does
not have a thesaurus entry,
Correct word
ap-
pears. Try this example.
1. Type a misspelled word.
2. Press
ENTER
.
3. Press to view similar words.
Note: A flashing
T
after a word shows
that it has at least one thesaurus entry. To
view its entry, press
ENTER
.
4. Press
CLEAR
when finished.
Correcting Misspellings
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To find unknown letters in words, type a ques-
tion mark for each unknown letter.
1. Type a word with ?’s for letters.
2. Press
ENTER
.
3. Press to view more words, if any.
4. Press
CLEAR
.
Finding Letters in Words
✓Help for Word Games
You can use ?’s to help solve crossword
puzzles and other word games.
For example, if the second letter of a five-
letter word is H and its last letter is W, en-
ter
?h??w
and then scroll down to view
possible answers.
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