Franklin CROSSWORDS CWQ-100 Manual de usuario
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User’s Guide
CWQ-100
crosswords
™
Puzzle Solver
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Introduction
Now there’s a fun way to make crossword
puzzles less puzzling. With your Cross-
words puzzle solver you can . . .
• find possible crossword answers when
you know only a few letters,
• find more possible answers by
changing letters,
• find phrases by typing a key word,
• find possible answers by topic, and
• play the Quiz game to practice your
puzzle solving skills.
Crosswords can’t solve all your crossword
puzzles, but by combining your knowledge
with its 130,000 word crossword answer list
from Chambers®, you can find more an-
swers than you find now.
This User’s Guide shows you how. You can
follow its numbered steps using the ex-
amples shown or by using words that inter-
est you.
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Key Guide
Function Keys
Goes back a step or space.
Clears to
Ready
.
Enters a word or scrolls text left.
Shows help information.
Finds more word choices.
Turns Crosswords on or off.
Searchesforphrasesincludingkeyword.
Starts the Quiz game.
Shows the Topics Menu.
Types a
?
to stand for a letter.
Types a dash.
Direction Keys
Erases a letter or moves left.
Types a space or moves right.
Scrollsupalistordarkenscontrastat
Ready
.
Scrolls down a list or lightens contrast at
Ready
.
BACK
?
TOPICS
QUIZ
PHRASE
ON/OFF
MORE
HELP
ENTER
CLEAR
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Getting Started
Follow these steps the first time you use this
product.
1. Press ON/OFF.
A brief demonstration appears. To stop
the demonstration, press CLEAR.
2. Press or repeatedly to adjust
the screen contrast.
NOTE: You can adjust the screen
contrast only at
Ready
.
✓Disabling the Demonstration
You probably don’t want to view the
demonstration each time you turn
Crosswords on. To disable the demo, type
--D
at
Ready
and then press ENTER.
✓Resuming Where You Left Off
To save battery life, Crosswords will au-
tomatically shut off within two minutes.
When you turn it on again, you return to
the last screen that you viewed.
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Finding Words
Crosswords helps you find answers to
crossword puzzles by finding missing letters.
Type a
?
in place of each unknown letter and
let Crosswords find every possible match in
its word list.
1. Type a word with ?’s (e.g.,
?ALL??Y
).
To erase a letter, press BACK or .
To type a space, press . You can
type capitals only.
2. Press ENTER to search.
The matches appear.
3. Press to scroll down the list.
A
?
can stand for a space as well as a
letter, as shown here.
4. Press CLEAR when finished.
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Finding Words
✓Viewing Help Information
You can view help information at most
screens by pressing HELP. To scroll the
help automatically, press ENTER. To exit
help, press BACK.
✓Follow the Arrows
The flashing arrows show which arrow
keys you can press to view more.
✓What is the Flashing ?
Some words belong to one or more
topic. When you see the flashing
T
at the
right of the screen, press TOPICS to
view the topics with which that word is
associated. To learn more about topics,
see “Finding Words by Topic.”
✓Scanning the Word List
To scroll through the word list, press EN-
TER while in a Matchmaker™list.
Correct
word
will appear. You can now press the
arrow keys to scroll up or down the list.
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Finding More Words
If the word you are looking for is not on the
Matchmaker list, press MORE to find more
possibilities. Crosswords substitutes a letter
for one that you’ve typed. Try this example.
1. Enter a word (e.g.,
DOT
).
Correct word
appears. This means the
word was spelled correctly.
2. Press MORE.
The lowercase letter is the new letter.
3. Press repeatedly to view more
matches.
These are all variations, with one letter
changed, of the original word
DOT
.
4. Press CLEAR when finished.
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Crosswords can also find phrases that in-
clude a key word.
1. Type a word in a phrase (e.g.,
CAT
).
2. Press PHRASE.
3. Press repeatedly to view the
phrases.
4. Press CLEAR when finished.
Finding Phrases
✓Correcting Misspellings
Crosswords can be used as spell
checker. However, it can correct only
those words that are in this crossword
list from Chambers®. It may not contain
commonly used English words.
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Finding Words by Topic
You can even narrow your search by topic.
There are 196 topics from which to choose.
They include anything from
Chemical sub-
stances
to
Cartoon characters
.
1. Press TOPICS.
The Topics Menu appears.
2. Press repeatedly until the topic
you want appears (e.g.,
BIBLE
).
Or type the first letter in the topic (see
“A Quicker Way to Find a Topic”).
3. Press ENTER.
4. Type your crossword guess with ?’s
at the Ready screen (e.g.,
M???S
).
5. Press ENTER to view the possible
answers under your selected topic.
6. Press to scroll down the list.
7. Press CLEAR when finished.
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✓A Quicker Way to Find a Topic
To zoom to a particular topic, type its first
letter. You will go directly to the first topic
that starts with that letter.
For example, press TOPICS and type a
V
.
You go directly to
Vegetables
. Now press
to scroll down the list until you find the
topic you wanted starting with a
V
.
Note: There are no topics starting with the
letters K, Q, X, or Y.
✓Finding Words under Topics
To find a list of the words associated with
a specific topic, first select a topic (e.g.,
Games & sports
). Next enter ?’s to deter-
mine how long the words in the list will
be (e.g.,
????
).
Now you can view every word that is four
letters long and listed under
Games &
sports
.
Finding Words by Topic
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