Operation Manual

9
Basic Operation of PW-E430
Inputting words for a dictionary search
Inthissection,thebasicsearchoperationisdescribed,theso-calledltersearch.
Fordetails,refertothemanualchapterforeachdictionary.
<Example>
Findtranslationsof‘convenience’inLangenscheidt Englisch-Deutsch.
1. Press
EN-DE
to display the initial screen for
Langenscheidt Englisch-Deutsch, then type
‘conven’.Theentriesstartingwith‘conven’are
listed.
2. Type‘i’tonarrowdownthelistfurther.Ifthe
desired word is found, then you do not need to
type any more letters.
3. Whilethe‘
’indicationisvisibleontheleftof‘convenience’,press
ENTER
.
• Press
ESC
to return to the previous view.
• Press
2nd
LIST
to list the headwords in Langenscheidt Englisch-Deutsch.
Note:
• Refertothesection‘Inputtingcharacters’onpage13.
• Tolearndifferentsearchingmethodsfromthoseabove,refertothemanual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 found
inthedictionary),themessage‘ÄhnlicheWörter’
appears.
In this case, press
ENTER
to list the dictionary entries alphabetically after the entered
spelling.
Note about entering characters
Whileenteringcharacters,excludecharacterssuchasspaces,hyphens,apostrophes,
slashes, commas, periods and brackets. See pages 13 and 14 for details.
Note:
• Upto24characterscanbeenteredintheinputeldofthedictionary.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
MENU
.
The main menu appears.
• Selectanitembyitsindexnumberusingthe
number keys (
1
to
9
). The initial screen of
the selected item appears.
• Thedesireditemcanalsobeselectedbyusingthe
keys, followed by
pressing the
ENTER
key.