If your intended word is not displayed, or the message “No
suggestions found” appears, then press the spacebar to skip
over that word and continue checking the other words in
the document.
If the word is spelled correctly, but isn’t in the AlphaSmart
dictionary, just press the spacebar to skip over the word and
leave it unchanged in your file.
To spell check a single word in a document, put the cursor
anywhere within the word you wish to check and press
x-Spell Check. That word alone will be checked and if it is
not in the dictionary, replacement suggestions for the word
will be offered.
Disabling Spell Check
To disable the spell check feature (for example, to give the
class a spelling test), press
x-Option-Spell Check. You will
be prompted to enter the master password to disable spell
checking. To enable the spell check feature, once again press
x-Option-spell check and enter the master password.
Note: The master password can be obtained by calling our
technical support office (888) 274-2720.
There is no “user dictionary” as well as no way of adding
words to the existing dictionary.
■ INSTALLING THE MAC Y CABLE
You may use any Apple Desktop Bus (ADB) cable to transfer
data from the AlphaSmart to the Macintosh—no special cable
is usually needed.
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For convenience, however, we offer an
optional Y cable that makes connecting and disconnecting an
AlphaSmart even easier. We suggest installing the Y cable
between your keyboard and its ADB cable, as shown in Figure 1.
To install the Y cable, first disconnect your Macintosh key-
board from the computer (at the keyboard end). Insert the
trunk of the Y cable into the empty ADB port on the keyboard.
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■ DATA RECOVERY
If you accidentally clear a file, it can still be recovered as
long as no text has been entered into that file yet. Open the
file you wish to recover by pressing one of the F1–F8 keys.
Press Option-
x-R to activate the AlphaSmart Data Recovery
command.
The Data Recovery command restores the end-of-file marker to
the same position it was when the file was last cleared (by
pressing the Clear File key). So if you accidentally clear a file,
Option-
x-R will restore it.
If, however, the Data Recovery command fails to recover the
data, try pressing Ctrl-Option-
x-R. This is the Recover 40
Characters command. Each time you press this command it
will move the end-of-file marker back 40 characters. Press
this command repeatedly until you see all of your text, plus
some garbage. Then hold the delete key down until the
garbage characters are deleted.
You may also try pressing Shift-Ctrl-Option-
x-R to recover
the entire file. Scroll down to the end of your text where the
garbage characters start and press
x-Delete to erase from the
cursor to the end of the file.
Note: If the file was deleted using the Option-
x-Clear File com-
mand, the data is not recoverable.
■ SPELL CHECK
To spell check the current file, press the Spell Check key.
Your file will be checked from the top to the bottom. When
it finds a word not contained in its dictionary, the Alpha-
Smart will provide a list of alternate words that are spelled
similarly.
For example, if the word “runn” is checked, a list of sugges-
tions (run, runs, rune, rung, runt, ruin) will be displayed. If
one of the suggestions is the correct spelling, use the arrow
keys to select it and press Return to replace the incorrect
word with the correct one.
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The Mac Y cable is required when connecting to a Macintosh with an
“Apple Design Keyboard,” model #M2980, since this keyboard has an
attached ADB cable and only one ADB connector.
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