Franklin Next Century QC-30 Manuel utilisateur
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Electronic
USER’S MANUAL
DICTIONARY
Words from Collins Dictionaries
NEXT
CENTURY
By Franklin Electronic Publishers
QC-30
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Key Guide
View the main menu.
View a help message.
View the games menu.
View confusable words.
Clear to “ENTER your word:”.
Turn the product on or off.
Go back, or erase a typed letter.
Type a question mark to stand for
a letter. In games, end a round.
Type an asterisk to stand for
any series of letters. In games,
reveal an answer.
Enter a word, select a menu
item, or start highlight in text.
Type a space or page down.
Scroll up or down or type punc-
tuation.
Move the cursor or highlight.
MENU
GAMES
CONF
HELP
CLEAR
ON/OFF
?
✽
BACK
ENTER
SPACE
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The first time you use this product, follow
these steps.
1. Press ON/OFF.
A brief demonstration appears.
2. Press CLEAR.
Note:
You can always view “ENTER your
word:” by pressing CLEAR.
Getting Started
✓Disabling the Demo
You probably do not want to view the
demo every time you turn on this prod-
uct.To disable the demo, select “Dis-
able Demo” on the Setup menu.To
enable it, select “Enable Demo.”
✓Follow the Arrows
The flashing arrows at the right of the
screen show which arrow keys you can
press to view more text.
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Changing Settings
You can change the font, shutoff timing,
and screen contrast.The shutoff timing is
how long the product stays on if you forget
to turn it off.
1. Press MENU.
2. Press to point to “Setup”.
3. Press ENTER.
4. Press to point to a menu item.
5. Press ENTER to view its settings.
6. Move the pointer to a setting.
7. Press ENTER to select it.
✓Help is at Hand
At almost any screen, you can view an
appropriate help message by pressing
HELP.To exit help, press BACK.
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Mostdefinitionsincludepartsofspeechlabels,
inflected forms, and hyphenation points. Here
is how to look up a word.
1. Press CLEAR.
2. Type a word (e.g., “gesticulate”).
To erase letters, press BACK.
3. Press ENTER.
4. Press repeatedly to scroll down.
Or press SPACE to page down.
5. Press CLEAR when finished.
Finding Definitions
✓Typing Punctuation
At “ENTER your word:”, you can type an
apostrophe by pressing or a full stop
by pressing .
Note:
These punctuation
marks cannot begin a word.
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✓Correcting Misspellings
When you enter a misspelled word, or a
correctly spelled word not in this dictio-
nary, a correction list appears. For ex-
ample, enter “kawphy” and you see
this.
Press to point to the correct word.
Then press ENTER to view its definition.
✓Viewing Multiple Forms
When you enter a word with more than
one form in the dictionary, a list appears.
For example, enter “am” and you see
this.
Press to point to the form you want.
Then press ENTER to view its definition.
Finding Definitions
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Viewing Confusables™
Confusables are commonly confused words.
When you see CONF flash at the top of the
screen,thatwordhasConfusables. Trythisex-
ample.
1. At“ENTER your word:”, type“write”.
2. Press ENTER.
Notice the CONF flash.
3. Press CONF.
An identifying word follows each
Confusable.
4. Press to view more.
✓Quick Confusables
If you already know that a word has
Confusables, press CONF rather than
ENTER after typing it at “ENTER your
word:”.You’ll go directly to its Confus-
ables list.
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To find unknown letters in words, type a ques-
tion mark for each unknown letter.
1. At “ENTER your word:”,
type a word with ?’s for letters.
2. Press ENTER.
3. Press to view more matching
words, if any.
4. Press CLEAR.
Finding Letters
✓Help for Word Games
You can use ?’s to help solve cross-
word puzzles and other word games.
For example, if the second letter of a
five-letter word is H and its last letter is
W, enter “?h??w” and then scroll down
to view possible answers.
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Finding Letters
To find prefixes, suffixes, or other fragments of
aword,type one or more asterisksinthe word.
Each asterisk stands for any series of letters.
1.Type a word with one or more ✻’s.
2. Press ENTER.
3. Press to view more words.
4. Press ENTER to view a definition.
5. Press BACK to return to the list.
✓Letter FindingTips
You can type both ?’s and ✻’s in a word.
However, if you type either at the start of
the word, finding matching words may
take a while.
Note:
You do not need to
type consecutive ✽’s or a ✽next to a ?.
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In definitions and Confusables lists, you
can highlight words and then view their
definitions. Try this example.
1. At “ENTER your word:”,
type “instigate”.
2. Press ENTER.
3. Press ENTER again.
The first word is highlighted.You can turn
off the highlight by pressing BACK.
4. Press to highlight “incite”.
5. Press ENTER to view its definition.
6. Press BACK to return to
the first definition.
Highlighting Words to Define
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