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- VOCABULARY POWER (tm)
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- This program will create multiple choice and matching quizzes,
- word searches, cryptolists, vocabulary bingo cards, and flash
- cards from your words and clues. (100% compatible with
- CROSSWORD POWER, also available from WISCO COMPUTING).
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- Evaluation Version 1.20
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- VOCABULARY POWER (tm) is a copyrighted program distributed
- as SHAREWARE. All rights are reserved. You may make 1 copy of
- this program and documentation for a 21 day evaluation.
-
- If you decide to continue to use this program, you must pay a
- registration fee of $39.95 plus $2.00 shipping/handling. Checks
- MasterCard, and VISA are accepted. Purchase orders are accepted
- from schools and Fortune 1000 companies. Building site licenses
- are also available. All references to SHAREWARE are removed
- from the registered versions of this program. To order the
- registered version, use the order blank that can be printed from
- the pull down menu.
-
- Registered owners will also receive a diskette with all improve-
- ments made to the program since the distribution of the
- shareware diskette, removal of all references to shareware,
- notification of major updates, and voice telephone support.
- This program can only be improved when you support my efforts.
-
-
- for use with
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- IBM PC, XT, AT, PS/2, and compatibles (384 K)
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- (C)Copyright Terry L. Jepson 1985-1992
- WISCO COMPUTING, P. O. Box 8
- Wisconsin Rapids, WI 54495-0008
-
-
- Modem Support is available on the Rapid River BBS (715) 435-3855
- (Free access 300 to 38,400bps V.32bis/V.42bis 24 hr 8/N/1)
- MasterCard & VISA orders accepted (715) 423-8189
- Voice Support is only available to registered users.
-
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-
- The information contained in the VOCABULARY POWER program and
- manual is believed to be accurate and reliable. However, no
- responsibility is assumed by the author or WISCO COMPUTING for
- its' use. The author or WISCO COMPUTING shall not be liable for
- any direct, incidental, or consequential damages resulting from
- the use of the VOCABULARY POWER program or this manual. Comments
- on this publication and on VOCABULARY POWER are invited.
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- VOCABULARY POWER is a trademark of WISCO COMPUTING. The
- computer hardware, software, and printer names used in this
- manual are the trade names and/or trademarks of their
- respective owners.
-
- VOCABULARY POWER is a computer software program that combines
- entertainment and educational value. This program was
- originally developed to help students learn vocabulary. This
- program can be used for the creation and the printing of
- activities to learn vocabulary. The activities (word searches,
- bingo cards, word jumbles, etc.) can be created for parties,
- games, and study aids.
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- Businesses and consultants have used this program for training
- sessions, and advertising promotions. Businesses can use this
- program for their internal newsletters. Restaurants can use the
- word searches for their place mats.
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- EDITING WORDS, CLUES, AND SETTING INFORMATION
- The Home key will place the cursor at the beginning of the
- current edit field. The End key will place the cursor at the
- end of the current edit field. Alt-D will delete the current
- edit field. Alt-R will restore the original information. The
- left and right arrow keys move the cursor within the edit field.
-
- Control-left and control-right arrow keys move the cursor to the
- far left or right sides of the window. The up and down arrow
- keys move the cursor between edit fields. Alternate-F1 displays
- foreign language codes, Shift-F1 displays math symbols, and
- control-F1 displays the Greek characters when appropriate. The
- special symbols can be included in your vocabulary words and
- clues by holding the alternate key down and entering the 3 digit
- number on the number pad of the IBM keyboard.
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- VOCABULARY POWER is specifically designed to be simple to
- understand and easy to use. It requires very little knowledge
- of computers. No commands need to be memorized. The menus
- allow easy movement through the program so you can begin
- producing and printing puzzles in just a few minutes. Help is
- available by pressing the F1 function key.
-
- Use the left or right arrow keys or mouse to move between menus.
- Inside a menu use the up or down arrow keys to move from item to
- item. Once your selection has been hi-lited, press the Enter
- key to confirm the choice and continue. Choices with bullets
- (or red on a color monitor) can not be selected until other
- actions have been taken.
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- SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:
- IBM PC, XT, AT, PS/2 or compatible 384K
- One disk drive (second recommended) or hard drive
- Blank formatted diskette for word list storage
- Printer
- PC-DOS or MS-DOS Version 2.1 or greater
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- CAPABILITIES OF VOCABULARY POWER:
- Word Search size can be varied from 3 to 24 columns and from 3
- to 17 rows. Word Search mazes and clues are printed in 10 pitch
- type. Twelve pitch and condensed pitch will be supported in the
- future.
-
- Up to 80 words will be placed automatically in each maze. Word
- search words and vocabulary bingo words can be up to 17
- characters long. Up to 20 words and clues can be used in the
- multiple choice and matching quizzes, cryptolists and juggle
- words. Clues can be up to 100 characters long. Words and clues
- can easily be added, deleted, printed, randomized, formatted, or
- changed at any time.
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- A variety of activities can be automatically created and printed
- from each list of words and clues. This option allows teachers
- to stress the same vocabulary but use different activities with
- their students. This has been a proven effective method for
- learning vocabulary words.
-
- VOCABULARY POWER is not copy protected. Backups of all files
- can be made using normal disk copying procedures.
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- GETTING STARTED:
- Please register this software. Registration is essential
- for you to receive the full benefits of WISCO COMPUTING.
- VOCABULARY POWER registered users receive announcements about
- major program improvements. These announcements will include
- a description of the new features, the reduced upgrade cost,
- and ordering procedures. Only registered users will receive
- the upgrade notices and be eligible to purchase the upgrade.
-
- First you should make a working copy of VOCABULARY POWER.
- Copy all files on the original diskette to your working copy or
- your hard disk subdirectory. Now place the original diskette
- in a safe place.
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- A QUICK TUTORIAL:
- 1. Insert the working copy diskette in drive A:.
- 2. Enter the word BINGO when A:> is displayed.
- 3. When the program is loaded, the Title Screen will appear.
- 4. Then the Menu Bar will appear at the top of the screen.
- 5. Use the right arrow key or left mouse button to go to the
- Settings Menu. Select Additional Settings.
- 6. Make the correct settings for your computer and printer.
- 7. Press Escape to reveal the Menu Bar.
- 8. Save these settings.
- 9. Move the cursor to the File Menu.
- 10. Move the cursor to Create... Enter a valid MS-DOS name
- that will be used to store your word list on diskette.
- 11. Then enter the subject of your word list.
- 12. Enter up to 80 words and related clues. When you are
- done, use the tab key to move to the bottom of the screen.
- 13. Press the letter S to Save the words and clues.
- 14. Move the cursor to the WordTools Menu.
- 15. Press Enter to automatically place the words into the maze.
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- GENERAL INFORMATION:
- A status line is displayed at the bottom of the screen. The
- current word list name is displayed in the status line.
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- The F1 function key can be pressed to reveal Help Screens.
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- THE FILES MENU:
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- New
- Load First Word List
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- Create...
- Edit Title...
- Review/Change/Add
- Print Word List
- Manipulate Word List
- Save Word List
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- Shell to DOS
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- Exit
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- NEW:
- This selection removes all vocabulary words from the computer's
- memory. The name of the word list is displayed in the status
- line.
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- ABOUT THE WORD LISTS:
- Each word list can have up to 80 vocabulary words and related
- clues. Word lists can be combined to place up to 80 words in
- each word search. Every word list may be reused in new word
- searches. This allows the user to review previously learned
- vocabulary too. All files created by VOCABULARY POWER may be
- copied and erased using the normal DOS commands. Avoid using
- the & character in a word list name. The & character is used
- in our companion product CROSSWORD POWER. Word lists created
- with VOCABULARY POWER are 100% compatible for use with CROSSWORD
- POWER.
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- ABOUT THE VOCABULARY WORDS (ANSWERS):
- Vocabulary words may be up to 17 characters long. Any character
- except the space, comma, asterisk *, double quote ", vertical
- bar |, and number sign # can be used in a vocabulary word. Even
- numbers can be used to create math word searches.
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- ABOUT THE CLUES (DEFINITIONS):
- Each clue can be up to 100 characters long. Long clues are
- automatically divided if necessary. Any character except the
- double quote " and comma can be used in a clue.
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- MANIPULATING THE WORD LIST:
- Vocabulary words and clues can be automatically changed to upper
- and lower case letters, capitalize just the first letter of the
- word or clue, sorted by length, alphabetized, and randomized.
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- The F1 function key can be pressed to provide more information
- about editing the vocabulary words and clues.
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- ABOUT WORD AND CLUE FORMATTING:
- The words can be changed back and forth between capital and
- lower case letters. It is easier to work with all capital
- letters. However, sometimes lower case letters are necessary.
- For example, in chemistry, CO means Carbon Monoxide and Co means
- Cobalt. This program treats capital letters and lower case
- letters as two different letters. This means that words will
- not intersect at a common letter if one is a capital letter and
- the other is lower case letter.
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- ABOUT SORTING, ALPHABETIZING, AND RANDOMIZING WORD ORDER:
- The word list order is used to determine which words are placed
- in a word search or vocabulary bingo card first.
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- HINTS:
- Placing the longest words into a word list first does not
- guarantee that more total words will be placed into a word
- search.
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- Each time a word list is randomized, the order of the vocabulary
- words and clues is changed.
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- Different word searches can be used by teachers to stress the
- same vocabulary words but wanting to give students different
- assignments. The different assignments allow verbal interaction
- to learn the vocabulary words and clues.
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- THE WORDTOOLS MENU:
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- Word Search - Display Single
- Word Search - Print Multiple
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- Bingo Card - Display Single
- Bingo Card - Print Multiple
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- CryptoList - Display Single
- CryptoList - Print Multiple
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- Juggle Words - Display Single
- Juggle Words - Print Multiple
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- Flash Cards Printed
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- When any of the Display Single selections are made, the word
- list that is displayed on the status line (at the bottom of the
- screen) is loaded into memory. Then the randomizing occurs and
- the appropriate PRINT MENU is displayed.
-
- For example, when WORD SEARCH - DISPLAY SINGLE is selected, a
- single word search maze is displayed. The PRINT WORD SEARCH
- MENU is displayed. You are given the following options:
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- <S>tudent maze printed
- <T>eacher maze printed
- <U>nused words displayed
- <F>lip Student/Teacher Maze
- <N>ew maze displayed
- <L>eave this menu
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- When the PRINT MULTIPLE selection is made, two questions will be
- asked. First you will be asked if you want a teacher (answer
- key) printed with the student form. Then you will be asked how
- many copies of the activity you want printed. You can
- automatically print up to 35 different activities (word
- searches, Vocabulary Bingo cards, etc.) when this selection is
- made.
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- WORDSEARCH DETAILS:
- The maze size that was selected on the SETTINGS MENU will be
- used. Words will be arranged forwards, backwards, horizontal,
- vertical, and diagonally. A random spot is chosen for the first
- word to be placed into the maze. Then other words will attempt
- to intersect the first word. When no more word placements can
- be made, the WORDSEARCH PRINT MENU is displayed. These
- selections can be made.
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- STUDENT MAZE PRINTED
- This option prints the student word search with the extra
- letters.
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- TEACHER MAZE PRINTED
- This option prints the answer key without the extra letters.
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- UNUSED WORDS DISPLAYED:
- This option allows you to display and print words from the word
- list that were not inserted into the maze.
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- FLIP STUDENT/TEACHER MAZE
- Student or teacher mazes can be quickly viewed.
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- NEW MAZE DISPLAYED
- The words are randomized, then a completely new maze is
- displayed and available for printing.
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- LEAVE THIS MENU
- Make this selection to return to the main menu.
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- CRYPTOLIST DETAILS
- The word list is randomized before choosing 20 words. If your
- word list has less than 20 words, the entire word list will be
- used. Each letter of the vocabulary word will be substituted by
- a different letter. All words on the list use the same letter
- substitution.
-
- For example, the word CELERY could have been randomized as
- RXJXWM. The letter R was substituted for the letter C in
- celery. The letter X was substituted for the letter E. Since
- there are two E's in CELERY, there are two X's, at the second
- and fourth positions in the word. Every word in this activity
- use the same letter substitution. If the word PLANE was also on
- this list, the last letter would also have to be an X. A grid
- is printed at the bottom of the student paper for help. The
- substitution key is displayed on the screen and printed on the
- teacher key.
-
- Each additional cryptolist that is displayed and printed uses a
- different group of 20 words and a different letter substitution
- method
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- JUGGLE WORDS DETAILS:
- The word list is randomized before choosing 20 words. If your
- word list has less than 20 words, the entire word list will be
- used. The letters of the vocabulary word will be randomized.
-
- Each additional juggle word activity that is displayed and
- printed uses 20 different words and a different letter
- substitution method.
-
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- BINGO CARD DETAILS:
- Your word list must have at least 25 words to make bingo cards.
- When this selection is made a bingo card is displayed with the
- PRINT CARD MENU. You are given the following options.
-
- <S>tudent card printed
- <U>nused words displayed
- <N>ew card displayed
- <L>eave this menu
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- Pressing the letter S will print the vocabulary bingo card.
- Each vocabulary bingo card will fit neatly on a 8 1/2" by 11"
- piece of paper.
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- Pressing the letter U displays the unused words for the
- displayed vocabulary bingo card.
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- Pressing the letter N displays a new vocabulary bingo card.
-
- Press the letter L to leave this menu and return to the main
- menu.
-
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- ABOUT PRINTING MULTIPLE CARDS
- You can automatically print up to 35 different Vocabulary Bingo
- cards when this selection is made.
-
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- FLASH CARDS (OR VOCABULARY BINGO CALLING CARD) DETAILS:
- The flash cards used for vocabulary drills can also be used as
- calling cards for vocabulary bingo. When this selection is
- made, a menu listing 6 different options is displayed. The
- calling (flash) cards allow printing the words and clues on
- regular 8 1/2" by 11" paper or 3" by 5" cards. The words and
- clues may be printed on the same or opposite sides of the paper.
-
- When the vocabulary words and clues are printed on opposite
- sides of the paper, you will have to turn the paper over to
- print the back side.
-
- Additional menu help is available for test centering the paper
- in the printer.
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- THE TESTTOOLS MENU:
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- Matching Quiz - Display Single
- Matching Quiz - Print Multiple
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- Multiple Choice - Display Single
- Multiple Choice - Print Multiple
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- MATCHING QUIZ DETAILS:
- The word list is randomized before choosing 20 words. If your
- word list has less than 20 words, the entire word list will be
- used. The clues for these 20 words will be randomized and
- displayed. When long clues are displayed, the first part is
- displayed with a plus (+) sign to indicate more letters.
- Long clues are automatically wrapped for proper appearance
- when printed. A blank is printed in front of the word number
- for the student choice. The letter of the correct response is
- printed in front of the number on the teacher key.
-
- Each additional quiz that is printed uses a different group of
- 20 words and a different random answer pattern.
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- Up to 35 different forms can be printed automatically. Making
- different quizzes has never been this easy.
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- MULTIPLE CHOICE QUIZ DETAILS:
- The word list is randomized before choosing 20 words. If your
- word list has less than 20 words, the entire word list will be
- used. The clues for these 20 words will be randomized and
- displayed. Then conflicting choices (wrong answers) will be
- chosen from all words in the word list. Then the correct
- answer and three conflicting answers are randomized. Long clues
- and long answers are automatically wrapped for proper appearance
- when printed. A blank is printed in front of the word number
- for the student choice. The letter of the correct response is
- printed in front of the item number on the teacher key.
-
- Each additional quiz that is printed uses a different group of
- 20 words and a different random answer pattern and a different
- set of conflicting choices. Up to 35 different forms can be
- printed automatically.
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- THE SETTINGS MENU:
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- Additional Settings
- Save All Settings
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- Order Information
- Print Order Blank
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- View Manual
- Print Manual
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- Additional Settings
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- Total Word Search Size Columns, Rows: 24, 17
- Drive Containing Word Lists: C:\PUZZLE\
- Print School Heading (Y/N): YES
- School Heading - Line 1, Left Side: SCIENCE
- School Heading - Line 2, Right Side: Name___________
- Listing below Word Search to Use: WORDS
- Print Free Space in Vocabulary Bingo Cards: NO
- Automatically Capitalize the Letters: YES
- Allow saved Word Lists to be randomized: YES
- Printer (ASCII, LASER-JET or DOTMATRIX): DOT MATRIX
- Printer support Box Drawing Characters (Y/N): NO
-
- WORD SEARCH SIZE:
- Word Search size may be varied from 3 to 24 columns wide and
- from 3 to 17 rows high. A 15 column by 15 row maze with clues
- usually fits on the normal size 8 1/2" by 11" paper.
-
- DRIVE CONTAINING WORD LISTS:
- Select the Drive Letter and subdirectory. To keep the word
- lists in the same directory as the VOCABULARY POWER program
- files, you can delete the displayed information by pressing
- Alternate-D. (Holding the Alternate Key down while pressing
- the letter D.
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- PRINTING THE SCHOOL HEADING:
- If YES is chosen a two line heading will be printed. The topic
- of the word list will be printed on the left side of the second
- line. If NO is chosen, the word list topic will be centered at
- the top of each printed page.
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- LISTING BELOW WORD SEARCH:
- Below each word search, the vocabulary word, the clue, or the
- first letter of the vocabulary word can be printed as a help to
- solving the word search. Long clues will automatically be
- divided.
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- AUTOMATICALLY CAPITALIZE PUZZLE LETTERS:
- For letters to intersect in the word search, they must be
- identical. All letters of the words must be either all lower
- or upper case. To quickly change the case of the words, use
- the manipulate option on the FILE MENU.
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- ALLOW SAVED WORD LISTS TO BE RANDOMIZED:
- If NO is chosen, you will not be able to resave the wordlist
- with the words in a different order. This is offered to
- make the word list compatible with CROSSWORD POWER. This
- selection only affects some of the options that are made
- when from MANIPULATE THE WORD LIST on the FILE MENU. If NO
- is selected you can not sort the words by length, save the
- words in a new random order or flip the words and clues.
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- This option does not affect the randomizing of the words and
- clues for the WORDTOOLS MENU and TESTTOOLS MENU selections.
-
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- TYPE OF PRINTER:
- Enter L for a LASERJET/DESKJET printer. Enter D for a Dot
- Matrix printer. Enter A to save the activities as ASCII
- text files. ASCII text files are easily imported into other
- programs. For example, you may wish to add graphics to a
- matching quiz or add these quiz questions to a test that has
- already been typed using your word processor. Obviously,
- VOCABULARY POWER is the tool to use quickly randomize the
- quiz choices. Your word processor is the tool that can be
- used to print graphics.
-
- BOX DRAWING CHARACTERS:
- If your printer prints foreign language characters around the
- squares on the BINGO cards, this should be set to NO. Then
- dashes and plus signs will be substituted for the BOX
- characters
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- ASCII FILE NAMING DETAILS:
- These ASCII files are named using this pattern:
- The first part of the file name uses the same name as the
- word list. The extension part (the three letters after the
- period) varies depending on the activity and if it is the
- teacher or student copy. The first letter of the extension
- will always be V (for VOCABULARY). The last letter will
- either be a S for STUDENT or T for TEACHER. The second
- letter varies with the activity.
-
- The second letter of the wordsearch extension uses W.
- The second letter of the matching quiz uses Q.
- The second letter of the multiple choice quiz uses M.
- The second letter of the cryptolist uses C.
- The second letter of the juggle word uses J.
-
- For example, the file HOMONYMS.VCT uses the HOMONYMS.WL word
- list. The file is (C) Cryptolist of the (T) Teachers activity.
-
- The original word lists use the extension .WL The word list
- files are saved as ASCII files to make it easier to you to check
- spelling. If you use the spell checker of your word processor,
- and your words are changed, make sure to save the word list file
- in ASCII format. Many word processors use special formatting
- codes when files are saved the regular way. Saving of the file
- in ASCII format prevents saving of the formatting codes.
-
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- SAVING THE SETTINGS:
- This selection saves the settings to disk that will be used the
- next time VOCABULARY POWER is started.
-
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- ORDER INFORMATION:
- Products available from WISCO COMPUTING will be displayed.
-
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- PRINT ORDER BLANK:
- An order blank for purchasing copies of this program or other
- products sold by WISCO Computing can be conveniently printed.
-
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- VIEW MANUAL:
- Use this selection to view the manual on screen while VOCABULARY
- POWER is active. The manual, WSMANUAL.DOC must be in the same
- directory or disk drive as the VOCABULARY POWER program.
-
- Computer Programs from:
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- WISCO COMPUTING, P. O. Box 8
- Wisconsin Rapids, WI 54495-0008
- (715) 423-8189
-
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- _____ GRADEBOOK POWER IBM 512K Indiv. License $59.00
- _____ GRADING SKILLS POWER IBM 512K Indiv. License $59.00
- _____ CROSSWORD POWER IBM 384K Indiv. License $39.95
- _____ VOCABULARY POWER IBM 384K Indiv. License $39.95
- _____ SURVEY POWER IBM 512K Indiv. License $59.95
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- A Site License is available for all products at 3 times the
- cost of an Individual License. A Site License allows all
- employees performing their duties for the Site to legally
- use the program.
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- _____ _____________________________ Site License __________
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- _____ Extra GRADING SKILLS POWER MAN./Site License $2.00 ea.
- _____ Extra CROSSWORD POWER MANUALS/Site License .50 ea.
- _____ Extra VOCABULARY POWER MANUALS/Site License .50 ea.
- _____ Extra SURVEY POWER MANUALS/Site License $2.00 ea.
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