Franklin Next Century QC-10 Bedienungsanleitung
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MODEL QC-10
USER’S
GUIDE
SpellingAce
Electronic
NEXT CENTURY
By Franklin Electronic Publishers
1
Congratulations.You now own a powerful and
portable electronic reference that you can use at
home, work, or school.Using your Next Century
Spelling Ace, you can...
• correct and check spellings
• find missing letters in words
• find prefixes, suffixes, and parts of words
• find words that sound similar
• build words from letters, and
• play exciting and educational word games,
with scoring
You can follow the steps in this User’s Guide us-
ing the examples shown or using words that inter-
est you.Also look for check-marked tips like the
one below that help you get the most from your
SpellingAce.
✓Auto-Shutoff and Auto-Resume
If you forget to turn off the Spelling Ace, it
will automatically shut off in two minutes.
And if the demonstration is disabled, when
you turn on Spelling Ace again, it resumes
at the screen you last viewed.
Introduction
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Key Guide
BACK
BUILD
CLEAR
CONF
ENTER
GAMES
HELP
SKILL
?
✽
Backs up (e.g., erases a letter).
Builds words from letters.
Clears to
Ready for word
.
Shows Confusables®.
Enters a word or selects an item.
Shows the games menu.
Shows help messages.
Shows the game skill levels.
Erases typed letters.
Scrolls up; types an apostrophe.
Scrolls down; types a full stop.
Types a space.
Stands for a letter in a word.
In games, reveals a word.
Stands for a series of letters.
In games, gives a hint.
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Getting Started
The Spelling Ace comes with the battery al-
ready installed, so all you have to do is turn it
on to start.
1. Press ON/OFF.
A brief demonstration appears.
2. Press CLEAR to stop the demonstration.
3. Press or repeatedly to adjust the
screen contrast.
NOTE: You can adjust the screen contrast
only when
Ready for word
is in view.
✓Disabling the Demonstration
You probably do not want to view the
demonstration every time you turn on
your Spelling Ace.To disable the demon-
stration, type
✽✽
d
and then press
ENTER.To enable it again, do the same.
✓Help is Always at Hand
While using Spelling Ace, you can view a
help message at virtually any screen by
pressing HELP.To exit help, press BACK.
4
When you enter a misspelled word, a list of
corrections appears. When you enter a cor-
rectly spelled word,
Correct Word
appears with
a list of similar words. When you enter a word
not in Spelling Ace,
Sorry Can’t Help
appears.
1.Type a word.
To erase a letter, press .You cannot type
capital letters, but Spelling Ace displays
capitals in corrections.
2. Press ENTER.
3. Press repeatedly to view more words.
4. Press CLEAR when done.
Correcting Misspellings
✓Finding More Corrections
If you do not find the word that you want
in a correction list, select a correction and
press ENTER twice. A list of more correc-
tions appears.
5
If you are uncertain about a few letters in a
word, type a question mark in place of each
unknown letter.
You can also type question marks in words to
help solve crossword puzzles and similar
games.
1.Type a word with ?’s for unknown letters.
2. Press ENTER.
3. Press to view more matching words.
4. Press CLEAR.
Finding Letters in Words
✓Just Follow the Arrows
The flashing arrows at the right of the
screen show which arrow keys you can
press to view more words.
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To find prefixes, suffixes, and other parts of
words, type asterisks (*) in a word. Each as-
terisk stands for any series of letters.
NOTE: When you type an asterisk at the be-
ginning of a word, Spelling Ace may take a
while to find matching words.
1.Type a word with one or more ✻’s.
2. Press ENTER.
3. Press to view more matching words.
4. Press CLEAR.
Finding Parts of Words
✓More Ways to Use Asterisks
You can use ✽’s to find lists of unusual
words. For example, enter ✽
x
to find words
that end with an
x
. In addition, you can type
both ?’s and ✽’s in a word, but there is no
reason to type them consecutively.
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Finding Confusables®
Confusables are words that sound alike but are
spelled differently.When a question mark flashes
to the right of a word, that word has Confusables.
1.Type
air
.
2. Press CONF.
3. Press repeatedly to view more
Confusables.
4. Press CLEAR.
✓A QuickWay to Find Confusables
If you know a word has Confusables, sim-
ply type the word and then press CONF.
✓Viewing LongWords
Some words are too long to fit on the
screen.To see all the letters of such long
words, press ENTER when the word is in
view. It will automatically scroll to the right.
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roux
To help solve anagrams and similar word
games, you can build words from letters by us-
ing the BUILD key.
1.Type letters.
2. Press BUILD.
3. Press to view more words.
4. Press CLEAR.
Building Words from Letters
✓Typing Punctuation Marks
You do not have to type punctuation marks
to find spellings. But if you want to type an
apostrophe in a word, press .To type a
full stop, press . Note, however, that
punctuation marks cannot begin words.
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Selecting Games
Spelling Ace has two word games. Before you
play, you may want to select a skill level and
then select a game. (If the skill level is not ad-
justed, the game will play at the Beginner level.)
1. Press SKILL.
2. Press to select a skill level from
Beginner
to
Wizard
.
3. Press ENTER to select it.
4. Press to select a game.
5. Press ENTER to select the game
and start playing.
✓Understanding Skill Levels
The skill levels change the number of
guesses in Hangman and the minimum
word length in Anagrams.
When you select a skill level, that level
applies to all the games until you change
it.You can start playing a game at the cur-
rent skill level by pressing GAME and
then following Steps 4 and 5 above.
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