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Typing
Punctuation
Press the ▲ button to type an apostrophe. Press the ▼ button to type a period. You can not input punctuation as the first letter on your screen.
Judging and
Correcting
Words
After you’ve entered a word and pressed the ON/ENTER button, it will be able to check if your entry is correct or incorrect. If your entry is incorrect, it will suggest correct alter- natives.
When the word is cor- rect, the LCD will display,
“THINKING... RIGHT!” fol-
lowed by your entry.
If the entry is incorrect, it will display, "Thinking… Correction list." It will display correct alterna- tives. For example, if you enter “WWHK” and press
ON/ENTER, it will suggest
“WACK.”
Jumble
Function
You can rearrange the characters you’ve entered to form new words using the jumble function.
First, type a few letters or a complete word. For example, enter “ARANEG.” Then press the JUMBLE but- ton.
Press the ▲ or ▼ but- tons to select the minimum word size. For example, you select six as your min- imum word size. Press ENTER to confirm. The LCD will display the top of the list. In this case, the first word it will display is
“ARENGA 
.” Scroll down to view all of your
options.
Finding a
Word’s
Synonym |
| If there are no matches, | |||||||||
Press the | SYNONYM button | the LCD will display, “NO | |||||||||
to search for the synonyms | ENTRIES.” |
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of a word or a phrase. You | If the total amount of a | ||||||||||
can also find additional syn- | word’s | synonyms is | less | ||||||||
onyms | by | pressing | the | than 50, the synonym list | |||||||
PHRASE, ? or * buttons after | will continue to scroll till it | ||||||||||
finding a synonym. |
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| reaches the end of the list. | ||||||||
First, type a word or | At the end of the synonym | ||||||||||
phrase. For example, enter | list, it will read “END OF FILE | ||||||||||
“RUN.” |
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| TO RESTART | ." Press the ▼ | |||
Press the SYNONYM button. |
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| button to scroll | ||||||||
through the same list again. | |||||||||||
The LCD screen will scroll | |||||||||||
If the total amount of a | |||||||||||
through | the synonyms | it | |||||||||
found. In this case, it will | word’s synonyms is greater | ||||||||||
display words like “CHASE | than 50, the unit will ask | ||||||||||
HURRY SPEED...” Press the P | you to select the number of | ||||||||||
button to pause it tem- | letters in the synonym you | ||||||||||
porarily when you’ve found | are searching for. Press the | ||||||||||
your | desired | synonym. | ▲ or ▼ buttons to select | ||||||||
After | you’ve | paused | it, | the synonym size and then | |||||||
press the | ▲ or ▼ buttons | press the ON/ENTER button to | |||||||||
to manually | scroll | through | confirm | your entry. | Then | ||||||
the synonyms. Press the P | the LCD display will scroll | ||||||||||
button | again | to | resume | through these matches. |
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automatic scrolling. |
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| If the | displaying | time | ||||||
1 0 | 1 1 |
