Getting
Started: Instructions for Read
& Write Gold
textHelp!®
Read & Write Gold V. 6 Instructions
If
this is the first time the student uses Read & Write Gold it is very helpful
to complete the guided tour. Go under Start:
Programs: TextHelp Programs: Guided Tour. This tour will
take the student through all of the following features.
Phonetic spell checker: Use the small arrow button to open options. Click the button when you have selected one word to spell check.
Word Prediction: Use the small arrow button to open options. Click the button to open or close the word prediction window.
Dictionary: Click this button when you have selected a word to look up in the dictionary. Alternatively click the button before selected a word then type the word into the text box. Use this when looking for definitions.
Word Wizard: Click this button when you have selected a word to look up in the wizard. Alternatively click the button before highlighting a word then type the word into the text box. Use this when looking for a related/associated word.
Display Homophones: Click this button when in MS Word to identify all homophones or commonly confused sounding words.
Hear Homophones: Use the small arrow button to open options. Click on this button to analyze text and identify alternatives.
Hide Homophones: Click this button when in MS Word to return all text to black that was colored blue from the display homophones button.
Calculator: Use the small arrow button to open options. Select your preferred calculator from the options panel. Then when you click on this button your preferred calculator will appear on screen.
Read Previous: Click on this button to have the previous word, sentence or paragraph spoken to you.
Pause Speech: Click on this button if you wish to have any current speech paused. Resume with another click.
Speak Text: Use the small arrow button to open options. Click this button if you wish to hear your text spoken, you can first select the text or just click the button.
Stop Speech: Click this button to stop any speech.
Speech Maker: Click this button when you have selected text that you wish to convert to MP3, WMA or WAV.
Pronunciation Tutor: Click this button when you have selected a word that you want to hear and see broken down into syllables.
Scanning: Use the small arrow button to do a quick scan. Click this button to OCR/Scan a document with more options.
Fact Folder: Use the small arrow button to review existing facts. Click this button to store selected information by preferred category.
Fact Finder: Use the small arrow button to open options. Click this button to do a quick web search directly from your windows applications.
Voice Recognition: Click here to use the speech to text feature.
Help Files: Click on this button to open the Read & Write Manual, which can be spoken using the features of the program.
Options: Click here to open the general options panel.