10
Basic Operation of PW-E420
Inputting words for a dictionary search
Inthissection,thebasicsearchoperationisdescribed,theso-calledltersearch.
Fordetails,refertothemanualchapterforeachdictionary.
<Example>
Findtranslationsof‘convenience’inLangenscheidtEnglisch-Deutsch.
1. Press
t
to display the initial screen for
LangenscheidtEnglisch-Deutsch,thentype
‘conven’.Theentriesstartingwith‘conven’
are listed.
2.Type‘i’tonarrowdownthelistfurther.Ifthe
desired word is found, then you do not need
to type any more letters.
3.Whilethe‘
’indicationisvisibleontheleftof‘convenience’,press
e
.
•Press
f
to return to the previous view.
•Press
^
l
tolisttheheadwordsinLangenscheidtEnglisch-Deutsch.
Note:
•Refertothesection‘Inputtingcharacters’onpage14.
•Tolearndifferentsearchingmethodsfromthoseabove,refertothemanual
chapter for each dictionary.
If there is no match found
As you input the spelling of the desired word, the
dictionary will narrow down the matching
candidates. If the match is narrowed down to
none (i. e. no word starting with the spelling is
foundinthedictionary),themessage‘Ähnliche
Wörter’appears.
In this case, press
e
to list the dictionary entries alphabetically after the
entered spelling.
Note about entering characters
Whileenteringcharacters,excludecharacterssuchasspaces,hyphens,
apostrophes, slashes, commas, periods and brackets. See pages 14 and 15 for
details.
Note:
•Upto24characterscanbeenteredintheinputeldofthedictionary.When
searching for words containing 25 characters or more, narrow down the search
to select the words from the list manually.
Selecting a dictionary / function in the main menu
Press
m
.
The main menu appears.
•Selectanitembyitsindexnumberusingthe
number keys (
0
to
9
). The initial screen
of the selected item appears.
•Thedesireditemcanalsobeselectedbyusingthe
{ }
keys, followed by
pressing the
e
key.