User manual FRANKLIN 455D-B

[. . . ] Carefully turn the unit over so that the LCD screen side is facedown on a soft surface, such as a towel or magazine. You'll find the battery compartment on the unit's back. Install 2 AAA bat- Installing Batteries teries, making sure to match the polarity (+ and -) with the diagram inside the battery compartment. (See diagram below. ) Place the battery compartment lid's tabs in their slots and snap the compartment door back on. Layout of The New York Times Deluxe Crossword Special Care & Handling . [. . . ] (Note: there are 1, 000 puzzles in your New York Times Touch-Screen Crossword Puzzle, Deluxe Edition, so it requires more than one screen "page" to list the puzzles. Touch "NEXT PAGE" to move through the screens. The screen will display "LAST PAGE" when the final page of choices has been displayed. 6 Touch any of the numbers to display a puzzle. You'll see the cursor flashing in the first blank "box" at the top left of the puzzle. You can move the cursor to any open square you want simply by touching that square. You can't move the cursor to a blocked-out (black) square. You can fill in any blank "box" by touching one of the letters on your onscreen QWERTY keyboard. Viewing clues Immediately below the onscreen puzzle you've selected, you'll see the clue for the word you've selected (by touching the word with your stylus). If you want to see the DOWN clue, just touch the right arrow displayed before the clue with your stylus. The Working a puzzle As soon as you touch a number with the stylus, your display will fill with the chosen crossword puzzle. Naturally, all "boxes" (each indicating a single letter) are blank. Blanks between words are indicated by a solid black "box, " just as in the puzzles printed in The New York Times. Touch "PREVIOUS PAGE" at the top of the screen to move backward through the pages. ) icon will change to a downward arrow. Touching the downward arrow will change the icon back to a right arrow and the ACROSS clue. Solving letters, words & puzzle If you're stumped about a word on the puzzle you're working, you can ask for a specific letter, word--or even the whole puzzle--to be solved. With your stylus, just press LETTER, WORD or PUZZLE under the SOLVE heading. Your screen would look like this: SOLVE WORD?Y/N By asking you this question, your unit is safeguarding against giving you an answer you do not want. If we confirm that we want the answer by tapping "Y" with our stylus, the word will be solved. If the right-hand arrow was displayed before the clue, the ACROSS word will be solved. If the downward arrow was displayed before the clue, the 7 If you want to see the clues to a different word of the puzzle, simply touch a letter in the word you choose. The corresponding clues will be instantly displayed. Using the check function Touch and hold the CHECK key with your stylus to check all your answers in the puzzle. All of the incorrect letters will be replaced by a spell-check icon, alerting you that you've made a mistake, without giving you the answer. (Even wrong answers that are spelled correctly will be indicated. ) When you release the CHECK key, the spell-check icons will disap- Deleting or erasing This function is just like erasing an answer you've made in a paper-and-pencil crossword. Place the cursor on the letter you want to delete, and touch the DEL key with the stylus. [. . . ] · Do not mix alkaline, standard (carbon-zinc) or rechargeable (nickel- cadmium) batteries. · Do not mix old and new batteries. · Do not use rechargeable batteries. · Remove exhausted batteries from the unit. [. . . ]