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BOOKMAN
ELECTRONIC BOOK CARD
®
The PDR Family Guide to
WOMEN’S HEALTH
™
and Prescription Drugs
Electronic Publishers
USER’S GUIDE
GWH-2055
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License Agreement READ THIS LICENSE AGREEMENT BEFORE USING ANY BOOKMAN ELECTRONIC BOOK. YOUR USE OF THE BOOKMAN ELECTRONIC BOOK DEEMS THAT YOU ACCEPT THE TERMS OF THIS LICENSE. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH THESE TERMS, YOU MAY RETURN THIS PACKAGE WITH PURCHASE RE- CEIPT TO THE DEALER FROM WHICH YOU PURCHASED THE BOOKMAN ELECTRONIC BOOK AND YOUR PURCHASE PRICE WILL BE REFUNDED. BOOKMAN ELECTRONIC BOOK means the software product, hardware, and documentation found in this package and FRANKLIN means Fra
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Contents ® Using your new PDR Family Guide than 350 brand and generic drugs to Women’s Health and Prescription that are often prescribed to women. ™ Drugs book card, you can read In addition, this electronic book has more than 40 chapters dealing with powerful features that let you search women and their specific health is- for any word and instantly go to sues. You can also learn about more cross-references. Key Guide ........................................................................ 2 I
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Key Guide of an item. At text, displays the Color Keys Outline location. Shifted, types HEALTH (red) Displays the Health menu. an asterisk to stand for a series DRUG (green) Displays the Drugs of letters in a search word. menu. Direction Keys INDEX (yellow) Displays the Index. Scroll line by line. SEARCH (blue) Displays and clears DN Scroll screen by screen. the word search screen. UP Page down. SPACE Function Keys 1 Key Combinations BACK Backs up to the previous screen. DN I + or At text
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Key Guide (cont’d.) Installing a Book Card 2 Quick Keys Warning: Never install or remove a book card when your BOOKMAN is D Go to the Dosage section. turned on. If you do, information that Go to the Side Effects section. E you’ve entered in its built-in book, as Go to the Most Important Fact section. F well as in any other installed book Go to the General section. cards, will be erased. G Go to the Food and Drug Interac- I 1. Turn off your BOOKMAN. tions section. 2. Turn your BOOKMAN over. Go to
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Selecting a Book Using the Color Keys Once you have installed the book The red, green, yellow, and blue keys card in your BOOKMAN, you can on the top row of the BOOKMAN select which book you want to use. keyboard change their functions ac- cording to which book you’re currently 1. Turn on your BOOKMAN. using. 2. Press . CARD If you’re using the built-in book, the color keys function as labeled on the BOOKMAN keyboard. If you’re using an installed book card, the color keys 3. Press or to highli
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Viewing a Demonstration Changing the Settings Before you begin, you may want to Using the Setup menu, you can adjust see a brief demonstration of how to the type size, shutoff time, and screen use this book. Simply install the book contrast. card and then follow these steps. The type size sets how large the char- acters appear on screen. The shutoff 1. Press . CLEAR time sets how long your BOOKMAN 2. Use the arrow keys to stays on if you forget to turn it off. The highlight the Setup menu. scree
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Reading Health Topics Reading Health Topics 3. Press . It’s easy to read about women’s ENTER health topics. Here’s how. HEALTH 1. Press (the red key). Or press , highlight Health, CLEAR and then press ENTER . 4. Highlight a section title and then press ENTER to select it. For example, select Deciding Whether You Have It. To highlight a section title, scroll to 2. Highlight a chapter title. For ex- it or type its first few letters. ample, highlight 3 PMS: Sorting Fact from Fiction. Note: Some se
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Reading Health Topics Reading Drug Profiles If you know the brand or generic Where in the Book Are You? name of a drug, here’s how to find its When you’re reading the text of a drug profile. health topic or drug profile, you DRUG 1. Press (the green key). can see the Outline location of the Or press , highlight Drugs, CLEAR current text by pressing ?* . and then press . ENTER 2. Press to select Drug ENTER Profiles. 3. Type a brand or generic drug To scroll to the higher levels of the ® name
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Reading Drug Profiles Reading Drug Profiles To highlight a section, scroll down Using the Quick Keys or type its first few letters. When you’re reading a drug profile, DN 6. Use , , or to scroll. SPACE you can quickly go to any section of 7. To go to the next or previous the profile by using these keys. DN section, hold I and press To go to... Press... or . UP General G Or use the Quick keys. To learn how, read “Using the Quick Keys” in the Prescribed For P next column. Most Important Fact
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Searching for Words Searching for Words Word searches let you look up all the occurrences of a word or phrase in this book. A word search is often the way to find the most information about a topic. DN 5. Hold I and use to see the You can search for up to six words at a Outline locations of the next matches. time. But you cannot search for short, common words such as the and is. 6. Press ENTER to see a match. 7. Press . MENU 1. Press SEARCH (the blue key). 2. Type your search words. For ex- a
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Searching for Words Highlighting Search Words You can also search for words by If You Misspell a Search Word highlighting a word in a health topic If you enter a misspelled search or drug profile. word, a list of corrections appears. 1. At the text of any health topic or drug profile, press ENTER . Use to highlight a correction and then press ENTER . Notice the highlight. To turn off Searching for Parts of Words the highlight, press . BACK 2. Use the arrow keys to high- If you want
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Reading Cross-references Reading Cross-references Throughout the text of this book, Reading Multiple you’ll see cross-references, indi- Cross-references cated by an . Cross-references Sometimes more than one take you to related material. appears on screen at one time. 1. When you see a in text, I hold and press ENTER . To read the cross-reference for the first , follow the steps in Notice that the is highlighted. the previous column. To read the 2. Press to go to the subsequent cros
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Sending Words Using the Index Between Books Using the Index, you can look up symp- This book card can transfer words toms, diseases, treatments, drugs, and between certain other BOOKMAN other medical terms and topics, listed books. from A to Z. To send or receive words between 1. Press INDEX (the yellow key). books, you must install the book card Or press MENU and then in your BOOKMAN. In addition, the in- highlight Index. stalled book card(s) and/or its built-in 2. Start typing an index entry.
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LBS. Copyrights, Patents, Book Card Care and Trademarks BOOKMAN Model GWH-2055 • Do not touch the metal con- tacts on your book cards. © 1996 Franklin Electronic Publisher, Inc., Burlington, NJ 08016-4907 U.S. All Caution: Touching these electrical rights reserved. contacts with statically charged ob- © 1994 by Medical Economics, Inc. All jects, including your fingers, could rights reserved. erase information entered in a book PDR and Family Guide to Women’s card or built-in book. Heath and Pre
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Limited Warranty (U.S. only) FRANKLIN warrants to you that the BOOKMAN PRODUCT will be free from defects in materials and workmanship for one year from purchase. In the case of such a defect in your BOOKMAN PRODUCT, FRANKLIN will repair or replace it without charge on return, with purchase receipt, to the dealer from which you made your purchase or Franklin Electronic Publishers, Inc., One Franklin Plaza, Burlington, New Jersey 08016-4907, within one year of purchase. Alternatively, FRANKLIN may
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Index ?* key 7 Direction keys 2 Arrows Do Not Take If information 8 flashing 7 Drug profiles 7 slanted 5 finding 7 Asterisk (for finding words) 10 using the Index 12 using word searches 9 Auto-resume feature 4 Automatic shutoff 5 reading 8 shortcut to viewing 8 Book cards spelling correction 8 installing 3 using Quick keys 8 protecting 13 Erasing typed letters 9 removing 3 BOOKMAN FCC notice 15 resetting 13 Finding troubleshooting tips 13 Do Not Take If information 8 Brea
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Index words to search for 10 for words and phrases How to Take information 8 by entering words 9 for words in other books 12 Index, using 12 Selecting Installing book cards 3 books 4 Key combinations 2 settings 5 Limited Warranty 14 Setup menu 5 Menus Drugs 7 Shutoff time 5 Side effects 8 Index 12 Setup 5 Slanted arrows 5 Misspellings, correcting Special warnings 8 drug names 8 Spelling correction search words 10 drug names 8 Numbers, typing 6 search words 10 Outline locat
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Index correcting misspellings 10 entering words 9 finding parts of words 10 highlighting words 10 viewing matches 9, 10 XREF (cross-references) 11 17
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FRB-28069-00 P/N 7201148 Rev. A
