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VOCABULARY POWER Version 2.00 This program will create: 1. Multiple Choice Quizzes 2. Matching Quizzes 3. Word Searches 4. Cryptolists 5. Juggle Letters 6. Vocabulary Bingo Cards 7. Flash Cards Your lists of words and clues are also 100% compatible with CROSSWORD POWER, also available from WISCO COMPUTING. 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 30 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 and evaluation software are removed from the print outs of 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 receive a printed manual, diskette with all improvements since the distribution of the shareware diskette, removal of all references to evaluation shareware, notification of major updates, and voice telephone support. This program can only be updated and improved when you support my efforts. for the IBM PC, XT, AT, PS/2, and compatibles (512 K) (C)Copyright Terry L. Jepson 1985-1993 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. VOCABULARY POWER Page 2 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: IBM PC, XT, AT, PS/2 or compatible 512K One disk drive or hard drive Supported Printer MS-DOS Version 2.1 or greater CAPABILITIES OF VOCABULARY POWER: Word Search size can be varied from 3 to 24 columns and from 3 to 20 rows. The quizzes and work sheets can be printed in 10, 12, 15, or 17 pitch. The pitch depends on the capabilities of your printer and the selection in the Settings Menu. Up to 100 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. 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. Backups of all files can be made using normal DOS disk copying procedures or the Back-Up word list selection of the Extra Menu. VOCABULARY POWER (tm) and CROSSWORD POWER (tm) are trademarks 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 combines entertainment and educational value. This program can create a variety of activities to learn vocabulary. The activities (word searches, bingo cards, word jumbles, etc.) can also be created for parties, games, and study aids. Businesses and consultants have used this program for training sessions, internal newsletters, and advertising promotions. Restaurants can use these activities for their place mats. VOCABULARY POWER Page 3 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. 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 by pressing Enter. 6. Make the correct settings for your computer and printer. 7. Press Escape to reveal the Menu Bar. 8. Save these settings on the Settings Menu. 9. Move the cursor to the File Menu. 10. Select Load First Word List. 11. Move the cursor up or down to a word list. Press Enter. 12. Move to either the WordTools or TestTools Menu. 13. Move the cursor up or down to your selection. Press Enter. VOCABULARY POWER Page 4 GENERAL INFORMATION: 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. A status line is displayed at the bottom of the screen. The current word list name is displayed in the status line. The menus allow easy movement through the program so you can begin making activities in just a few minutes. Help screens are available by pressing the F1 function key. To move between the menus at the top of the screen, you can use the left or right arrow keys, a mouse, or hold the Alternate key down and press the first letter of the menu. Within the vertical menu, use the up or down arrow keys, or press the first letter of the selection to move from selection to selection. Once your selection has been hi-lighted, press the Enter key to confirm the selection and continue. Choices with bullets (or red on a color monitor) can not be selected until other actions have been taken. 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 deletes the current edit field. 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. VOCABULARY POWER Page 5 THE FILES MENU: --------------------- New Load First Word List --------------------- Create... Edit Title... Review/Change/Add Print Word List Manipulate Word List Save Word List --------------------- Shell to DOS --------------------- Exit --------------------- NEW: This selection removes all vocabulary words and clues from the computer's memory. The name of the word list is displayed in the status line. ABOUT THE WORD LISTS: Each word list can have up to 100 vocabulary words and related clues. All files created by VOCABULARY POWER may be copied and erased using normal DOS commands. The word lists can also be copied using the Back Up selection of the Extra Menu. 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. 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. Numbers can also be used to create math activities. VOCABULARY POWER Page 6 ABOUT THE CLUES (DEFINITIONS): Each clue (definition) 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. The F1 function key can be pressed to reveal a help screen to provide more information about editing the vocabulary words and clues. 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. 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. HINTS: Placing the longest words into a word list first does not guarantee that more total words will be placed into a word search. Each time a word list is randomized, the order of the vocabulary words and clues is changed. Teachers can use different activities to stress the same vocabulary words with different formats. The different activities allow for the different learning styles of students. VOCABULARY POWER Page 7 THE WORDTOOLS MENU: ------------------------------- Word Search - Display Single Word Search - Print Multiple ------------------------------- Bingo Card - Display Single Bingo Card - Print Multiple ------------------------------- CryptoList - Display Single CryptoList - Print Multiple ------------------------------- Juggle Words - Display Single Juggle Words - Print Multiple ------------------------------- Flash Cards Printed ------------------------------- GENERAL INFORMATION: 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. The first activity and appropriate PRINT MENU are displayed. For example, when WORD SEARCH - DISPLAY SINGLE is selected, a single word search maze is displayed. The PRINT WORD SEARCH MENU is displayed in the upper left corner. You are given the following options: <S>TUDENT MAZE PRINTED: This option prints the student word search with the extra letters. <T>EACHER MAZE PRINTED: This option prints the answer key without the extra letters. <U>NUSED WORDS DISPLAYED: This option allows you to display and print words from the word list that were not inserted into the maze. VOCABULARY POWER Page 8 <F>LIP STUDENT/TEACHER MAZE: Student or teacher mazes can be quickly viewed. <N>EW MAZE DISPLAYED: The words are randomized again, then a completely new maze is displayed and available for printing. <L>EAVE THIS MENU: This selection is used to return to the regular pull down menus. 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 each student form. Then you will be asked how many copies of the activity you want printed. You can automatically print up to 40 different activities (Word Searches, Vocabulary Bingo cards, Quizzes, etc.) when this selection is made. WORDSEARCH DETAILS: The Word Search size is selected on the SETTINGS MENU. The maze size can be varied from 3 to 24 columns and from 3 to 20 rows. Up to 100 words will be placed automatically in each maze. 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. 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. VOCABULARY POWER Page 9 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 of this print out uses 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. 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 randomization. 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. Each vocabulary bingo card fits neatly on a 8 1/2" by 11" piece of paper. PRINTING MULTIPLE VOCABULARY BINGO CARDS: This selection allows automatic printing of up to 40 different Vocabulary Bingo Cards. FLASH CARDS (OR BINGO CALLING CARDS) 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. VOCABULARY POWER Page 10 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. The vocabulary words will be printed in expanded larger print size if an Epson FX, Epson LQ, IBM Proprinter, or Okidata printer is being used. Additional menu help can help center the paper in the printer. ASCII FILE NAMING DETAILS: If an activity is saved as an ASCII file, the following pattern is used to name the file: 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 uses the following pattern Wordsearch = W, Cryptolist = C, Juggle word = J, Multiple choice quiz = M, and matching Quiz = Q 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 spell checking easier. 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. VOCABULARY POWER Page 11 THE TESTTOOLS MENU: ---------------------------------- Matching Quiz - Display Single Matching Quiz - Print Multiple ---------------------------------- Multiple Choice - Display Single Multiple Choice - Print Multiple ---------------------------------- MATCHING QUIZ DETAILS: Word lists are randomized before choosing 20 words. If the word list has less than 20 words, the entire word list will be used. 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 correct response letter 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. Up to 40 different forms can be printed automatically. Making different matching quizzes has never been this easy. 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 40 different forms can be printed automatically. VOCABULARY POWER Page 12 THE SETTINGS MENU: --------------------- Additional Settings Select Printer Font Save All Settings --------------------- Order Information Print Order Blank --------------------- View Manual Print Manual --------------------- Additional Settings 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 Type of Printer: EPSONLQ Printer support Box Drawing Chars. (Y/N): NO Printer Pitch (10, 12, 15, or 17 Chars.): 12 Set Printer to Letter Quality: YES Left Margin (1 to 15 characters): 10 WORD SEARCH SIZE: Word Search size may be varied from 3 to 24 columns wide and from 3 to 20 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. VOCABULARY POWER Page 13 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. LISTING BELOW WORD SEARCH: Below each word search, the vocabulary word (word bank), 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. AUTOMATICALLY CAPITALIZE PUZZLE LETTERS: Only identical letters will intersect in the word search. 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. ALLOW SAVED WORD LISTS TO BE RANDOMIZED: This selection does not affect the randomizing of the words and clues for creating activities with the WORDTOOLS MENU and TESTTOOLS MENU selections. This selection only affects some options made by the MANIPULATE THE WORD LIST selection on the FILE MENU. If NO is chosen, you will not be able to save the word list with the words in a different order. This is offered to make the word list compatible with CROSSWORD POWER. If NO is selected the words and clues can not be flipped, alphabetized, placed in a random order, or sorted by length. TYPE OF PRINTER: The following printers are supported by VOCABULARY POWER: EpsonMX Diablo 630 IBM Proprinter EpsonRX Okidata Panasonic KX-P1091i EpsonFX Toshiba P1351 H-P DeskJet, DeskJet Plus EpsonLQ NEC 3550 H-P LaserJet II, IIP, III Additional printers may also be supported. If your printer is not listed, printer codes for User-Defined printers can be entered and saved by the program. Use your printer manual to find the following printer codes needed for User-Defined printers. VOCABULARY POWER Page 14 1. Master Reset 5. 12 Pitch On 9. Doublestrike OFF 2. 6 Lines per Inch 6. Underline ON 10. Unidirection ON 3. 8 Lines per Inch 7. Underline OFF 11. Unidirection OFF 4. 10 Pitch ON 8. Doublestrike ON When the printer is selected, additional questions will be asked. SHEET FEEDER <Yes or No>: You will be asked if a sheet feeder is attached to the printer. IGNORE PRINTER STATUS <Yes or No>: VOCABULARY POWER always checks the status of the parallel printer port before sending any data. This normally works quite well. However, if you map a parallel port to a serial one by the MODE command, or if you have a non-standard, or very fast computer, you may experience problems. VOCABULARY POWER might actually think that your printer port (LPT1:) is busy when you know it is not. If you have printer problems like this, select Y for Yes to ignore the printer status. SYMBOL SET <Yes or No>: If a LaserJet or DeskJet printers was selected, you will be asked which symbol set to use. Symbol sets 10U PC-8, 11U PC-8 (Danish/Norwegian), and 12U PC-850 are supported. These symbol sets include the line drawing characters needed by the bingo cards. If your laser compatible printer can not support one of these three symbol sets, also set the box drawing selection on the Settings Menu to NO. 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 PRINTER PITCH: Select a printer pitch supported by your printer. VOCABULARY POWER Page 15 SET PRINTER TO LETTER QUALITY: Depending on the printer, the work sheets may be printed in either draft of letter quality mode. SELECT PRINTER FONT: LaserJet, DeskJet and Epson LQ printers support different fonts. The LaserJet II and DeskJet printers have built-in fixed width 10 and 16.66 (condensed) pitch Courier fonts. Printing 12 and 15 pitch fonts require downloaded fixed-width fonts or fixed-width font cartridges. The EpsonLQ optional font module is also supported giving the user six additional fonts. VOCABULARY POWER supports all fonts and pitches included with the optional font module. 0. Roman (10,12,15 pitch) 5. OCR-B (10 pitch) 1. San Serif (10,12,15 pitch) 6. OCR-A (10 pitch) 2. Courier (10,12,15 pitch) 7. Orator (10 pitch) 3. Prestige (10,12,15 pitch) 8. Orator-S (10 pitch) 4. Script (10,12,15 pitch) SAVING THE SETTINGS: This selection saves the settings to be used the next time VOCABULARY POWER is started. ORDER INFORMATION: Additional products available from WISCO COMPUTING will be displayed. PRINT ORDER BLANK: An order blank for purchasing copies of this program or other products sold by WISCO Computing can be conveniently printed. 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. VOCABULARY POWER Page 16 THE EXTRA MENU: ------------------------- Reset Printer Advance Paper Form Feed ------------------------- Back Up Word List Files Change Screen Colors ------------------------- About Vocabulary Power ------------------------- The first three selections of the Extra Menu send printer codes to the printer. The first selection RESETS the printer to the top of the page to the current paper position in the printer. If you have manually adjusted the paper position in the printer, use this selection so the program and printer properly communicate. ADVANCE PAPER advances the paper in the printer one line. FORM FEED ejects the current page in the printer. BACK UP WORD LIST FILES: When this selection is made, you will be asked to enter the name of the drive to receive the copies of the word lists. If an acceptable drive letter and optional subdirectory is entered, the word lists will be copied. CHANGING THE SCREEN COLORS: The screen colors may be changed to your personal preference, or because the regular colors may be hard to see on a lap top computer. ABOUT VOCABULARY POWER: This screen displays information about VOCABULARY POWER, current pricing, and order and support information. Computer Programs from: WISCO COMPUTING, P. O. Box 8 Wisconsin Rapids, WI 54495-0008 (715) 423-8189 Quantity Product Unit Price _____ GRADEBOOK POWER IBM 512K Indiv. License $59.00 _____ GRADING SKILLS POWER IBM 512K Indiv. License $59.00 _____ CROSSWORD POWER IBM 512K Indiv. License $39.95 _____ VOCABULARY POWER IBM 512K Indiv. License $39.95 _____ SURVEY POWER IBM 512K Indiv. License $39.95 ------------------------------- 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. _____ _____________________________ Site License __________ -------------------------------- _____ Extra GRADEBOOK POWER MANUALS/Site License $2.00 ea. _____ 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. ------------------------------- ---------- SUB TOTAL __________ WISCONSIN SALES TAX 5% __________ TOTAL SHIPPING $2.00 ---------- TOTAL ORDER __________ FOREIGN CUSTOMERS - PAYMENT MUST BE IN US DOLLARS --------------------------------------------------------------- Form ASP-WIS93 -V2.00 Please ship the latest version of these programs to: Registered Owner________________________________________________ Street Address__________________________________________________ City___________________________ State______ Zip Code___________ IBM Disk Size Needed - (either 3 1/2" or 5 1/4") __________ Circle Method of Payment CHECK Money Order VISA MasterCard Name on Credit Card_____________________________________________ Card No.____________________________________ Exp. 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