Contents
CLD Help: Contents

Click any underlined term to find out more about it.

About CLD on CD-ROM

Getting started

Searching for a word

Search panel

Content window

Quitting CLD

Copying and printing

Exercises

Study pages

Related words

Word families

User annotations

Word processor integration

Internet search shelf

History

Hotkey

Uninstalling CLD

About BOOKcase 4.0


About CLD on CD-ROM

The Cambridge Learner's Dictionary (CLD) on CD-ROM is an interactive electronic dictionary for intermediate learners of English.  Its entries contain sound recordings by both British and American native speakers, as well as a feature that lets you record and hear your own pronunciation.  CLD also has a 'Related Words' feature that works like a thesaurus, and a 'Word Families' feature that provides an easy way to build your vocabulary.  In addition, CLD has lots of study pages, which explore different areas of English language and culture, and interactive exercises based on the study pages, which help you practise what you have learned.

The Cambridge Learner's Dictionary on CD-ROM is combined with an application called BOOKcase.  BOOKcase is a software program that helps you use CLD and is automatically installed on your computer when you install CLD.  For more information about BOOKcase and how it works, see the section called About BOOKcase 4.0.  NOTE: You do not have to read this section to use CLD.

Web addresses

• Technical support http://www.cambridge.org/elt/cld

• Cambridge Dictionaries home page http://www.cambridge.org/elt/reference

• Cambridge University Press http://www.cambridge.org

Copyright information

Based on the printed edition of the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary.

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Getting started

Click any underlined term to find out more about it.

Starting CLD

Searching for a word

Quitting CLD


Starting CLD

You can start CLD in several ways:

• Click and hold the Start button (lower left corner of the toolbar at the bottom of your screen), point to Programs, point to Cambridge, click Cambridge Learner's Dictionary.

or

Double-click The CLD Desktop icon [image] on your desktop.

Note: The CLD desktop icon will only appear on your desktop if you have followed the suggested installation, or have chosen to add this shortcut during installation,

or

Click the BOOKcase icon [image] in the tray (bottom right corner of your screen [image]).

Note: The BOOKcase icon will only appear in the tray if you have followed the suggested installation, or have chosen to add this shortcut to the StartUp folder during installation.

When you start CLD, the program opens two separate windows: the Search Panel and the Content window.  You should wait for both windows to open before you begin searching for a word.

If CLD is running but its windows have been minimized:

• Click the CLD icon [image] in the taskbar at the bottom of your screen.

If you are using a word processing program that has been integrated with CLD:

• Highlight the word you want to look up and press Ctrl+9 (This is called the 'Hotkey'.)

or

Click the CLD icon [image] in the toolbar of the word processing program

or

Click Tools (in the toolbar of the word processing program), then click Cambridge Learner's Dictionary.

See also:

Hotkey

Word processor integration

Quitting CLD


Searching for a word
Searching for a word in CLD

Click any underlined term to find out more about it.

To search for a word:

• Type the word in the text entry box (the white box at the top of the Search Panel).

• Click the FIND button [image] to start the search.

The dictionary entry for the search word is shown in the second window, called the Content Window.

                 Search Panel                                                            Content Window

To start another search:

• Click the Search Panel button [image] at the top of the Content Window to go back to the Search Panel, where you can select other entries or start a new search.

For a detailed explanation of the features and functions of the Search Panel and Content Window, see:

Search panel: Key-in aid Index

Search panel: Search Results index

Content Window


Quitting CLD

You can quit CLD in several ways:

• Click the close button [image] at the top of the Search Panel.

or

Click the right mouse button on the CLD icon [image] in the taskbar at the bottom of your screen, then select Close.

or

Click the title bar [image] in the search panel, then press Alt+F4.

Note: These three methods close CLD without disabling the hotkey.

or

Click the right mouse button on the BOOKcase icon [image] in the tray at the bottom right corner of your screen, then select Exit.

This method closes CLD and removes the BOOKcase icon from the tray, disabling the hotkey.

See also:

Auto minimize

Hotkey


What is installed
What is installed on your computer

• CLD data files (directory C:\Program files\Cambridge\CLD001CP, unless you have specified otherwise during the installation).

• A shortcut to Cambridge Learner's Dictionary on the desktop, if you have selected this option during the installation.

• BOOKcase 4.0 software (directory C:\Program files\TEXTware\BOOKcase40, plus system files in C:\Windows\System and C:\Program files\Commonfiles).

• Shortcuts to start BOOKcase 4.0. The following items are added to the Start menu:

Program files\BOOKcase 4.0\BOOKcase 4.0

Program files\Cambridge\Cambridge Learner's Dictionary.

• A shortcut to BOOKcase 4.0 in the StartUp folder, if you have selected this option during the installation.

• Uninstall information about CLD and BOOKcase 4.0.

NOTE: When you install Cambridge Learner's Dictionary on your PC, the empty log file CLD001CP.LOG is automatically installed to your CLD directory. For more information on this file see The LOG file

See also:

About BOOKcase

Uninstalling CLD

Uninstalling BOOKcase


Uninstalling CLD

To uninstall CLD:

• Click and hold the Start button, point to Settings, then Control Panel.

The Control Panel window opens.

• Double-click Add/Remove Programs.

The Add/Remove Programs dialog box appears.

• Click Cambridge Learner's Dictionary to select it, then click Add/Remove.

CLD is removed.

• Click OK to close the dialog box.

NOTE:  This process removes only CLD (Cambridge Learner's Dictionary).  It does not uninstall the software program called BOOKcase that lets you use CLD.  For more information about BOOKcase, see About BOOKcase.

See also:

Uninstalling BOOKcase


Search panel
About the Search Panel

The Search Panel is the first window to open in CLD.  It's the place where you enter the word you're searching for, and the place where many of CLD's features are controlled.

Click any underlined term to find out more about it.

Parts of the Search Panel

Search panel: Key-in aid Index

Search panel: Search results index

Search Panel History


Parts of the Search Panel

The Search Panel's parts are described below:

Text entry box:  Type the word you want to search for here.

Index area displays the words in the dictionary that match your search word.

Shelf contains the following items:

the Shelf icon [image] shows which shelf is open.  (In the picture above, the Cambridge University Press shelf is currently open.)

the CLD icon [image] (and possibly other book icons).

the User Annotations icon [image]: click to open the User annotations search panel.

the BOOKcase 4.0 icon [image]: click to open the BOOKcase bar.

Up and down arrows [image] [image]:  If one or both arrows are black, click to scroll through the rest of the icons on the shelf without resizing the window.

Control buttons [image] perform the following functions:

• minimize button [image] minimizes the search panel and puts it in the taskbar.

• toggle button [image] switches between normal mode (showing the full search panel) and always-on-top mode (reduced search panel which floats on top of other open applications).

• close button [image] closes the search panel and CLD.

Help button [image]: click to open CLD's online help.

Find button [image]:  click to begin a search for the word in the text entry box.

Words and Search tabs toggle between the Key-in aid index and the Search Results index.

Filters button [image]:  click to expand the Search Panel and open the Filters.


Search Panel: Always on top-mode
Search Panel:  Always-on-top mode

The search panel can be displayed in two ways:

- Normal mode (This is the default mode.)

The search panel shows both the text entry box and the index area below it.

- Always-on-top mode

The Search Panel is reduced and remains on top of all open applications.  The Always-on-Top mode is very convenient if you are working in another application and only want to look up a word occasionally.

 Normal mode                                              Always-on-top mode

See also:

Switching between normal mode and always-on-top mode

Search Panel


Switching between normal mode and always-on-top mode
Search Panel:  switching between normal mode and always-on-top mode

To change from Normal mode to Always-on-top mode:

• Click the toggle button [image] in the top right corner of the search panel.

The search panel is reduced and remains on top of other applications.

To change from Always-on-top mode to Normal mode:

• Click the toggle button [image] in the top right corner of the search panel

or

  Click the Cambridge University Press shelf icon [image] to go back to normal mode.

See also:

Search panel: always-on-top mode


Key-in aid index
The Search Panel:  Key-in aid index

When you start a search, the search panel shows all the entries in CLD that start with the letters you are typing.  This feature is called the Key-in aid index and is especially helpful if you're not sure how to spell the word you're looking for.

This is what the Key-in aid index looks like when you type in 'bio'.  All words that are main entries appear in bold type. Other words are appear in regular type.

If the word you've typed is not found, it appears in brackets in the key-in aid index.

NOTE: You may use wildcards (* and ?) in your searches.  You can also use Filters to limit your searches.

As you type in the text entry box, you will see the following symbols in the top left corner of the CLD icon:

 a small, blue-and-yellow rotating wheel, which shows that CLD is being searched.

 a small green lamp, which shows that the search word has been found.

Note:  Icons (books) with no lamps show that no matches were found in those books.  Internet addresses (like Cambridge Online) are excluded from searches unless your web browser is open.

To see the definition of the word you typed in the text entry box:

• Click [image] or click the SEARCH tab.

The key-in aid index changes to show the Search results index and the dictionary entry corresponding to the first result in the list is shown in the Content window.  If no matching word is found, (no matches) appears in the Search results index.

Note that this function may return no search results in the active book, while green lamps indicate that the search word does appear in other books on the same shelf.

To see the entry for any word in the Key-in aid index:

• Click it with the mouse.

To start another search:

• Click the Search Panel button [image] to go back to the search panel, where you can select other entries or start a new search.

See also:

Content window

Filters

Search Results Index

Search Panel History

Wildcards


The Search Result index
The Search Panel:  Search Results Index

After you have clicked FIND to perform a search, the key-in aid index changes to show the search results index, which lists the results that match or contain the word you are searching for.

Search results index for the word 'knock':         Results for each search appear in the following order:

	Main entries (also called Headwords) that match the search word are shown in blue type. Phrasal verbs that match or contain the search word are shown in light green type. Idioms or Phrases that match or contain the search word are shown in dark green type. Usage notes that contain the search word are shown in red type. Definitions that contain the search word are shown in black type. Examples that contain the search word are shown in black italic type. NOTE:  Every category in this list will not apply to every search.

To see the dictionary entry for any word listed in the search results index:

- Click that word. The content window jumps to the dictionary entry for that word.

Click the tabs Words and Search below the index area to toggle between the key-in aid index and the search results index.

Right click any entry in the Search results index to open the Search results pop-up menu.  This menu offers the following options:

Print matches

Click to print the current list of search results that match the search word.

Headwords (number of headwords that match the search word)

Click to jump to the first main entry match in the search results index.

Phrasal verbs (number of phrasal verbs that match the search word)

Click to jump to the first phrasal verb match in the search results

index.

Idioms/Phrases (number of idioms and phrases that contain or match the search word)

Click to jump to the first idiom/phrase match in the search results index.

Usage Notes (number of usage notes that contain the search word)

Click to jump to the first usage note match in the search results index.

Definitions (number of definitions that contain the search word)

Click to jump to the first definition match in the search results index.

Examples (number of examples that contain the search word)

Click to jump to the first example match in the search results index.

See also:

Key-in aid index

Search Panel History


Content window
About the Content Window

The content window, CLD's second window, shows the dictionary entry for the word you are searching for.

Click any underlined term to find out more about it.

Parts of the content window

Content window toolbar


Parts of the Content Window

Control buttons [image] perform the following functions:

• minimize button [image]  Click to minimize the content window and put it in the taskbar.

• maximize button [image] Click to switch between full screen and window view.

• close button [image] Click to close the content window.

Content window toolbar

See Content window toolbar for a description of the toolbar buttons.

To test your pronunciation: right-click either the British sound icon [image] or the American [image] sound icon, click 'Pronunciation practice', then follow the directions.  (Note: your computer must have a microphone to use Pronunciation practice.)

If no sound icons are visible in an entry, they have been turned off.  See Hiding/displaying parts of the dictionary to find out how to turn them on.

Note:  Unless you're using a network version of CLD, your CD must be in the CD-ROM drive for you to hear the pronunciations.

To return to the dictionary, click the close box [image] in the upper right corner of the window.

To see a description of any part of speech label or grammar label:  Double-click it.  A pop-up box appears with a brief explanation.

Note: You can also view explanations for parts of speech or grammar labels by right-clicking on them, then clicking 'Explain ...'.

To search for any word in the Content Window: double-click it.  The window instantly changes to the entry for the new word.

Note: You can also search any word by right-clicking it, then selecting 'Global search'.

See also:

Related words

Word families

Exercises

Pictures

Study pages


Content Window toolbar

TOOLBAR BUTTONS

The toolbar at the top of the CLD Content window contains the following buttons:

These buttons are explained below.

 A-Z

Click to show a pop-up menu containing A-Z, Exercises, Pictures, or Study Pages. Click one of these options to go there.

 Copy

Copies selected text or an entire entry to the clipboard.  The text can then be pasted into a document using the Paste command, or Ctrl+V.

(see Copying)

 Print

Prints selected text or an entire entry.

(see Printing)

 Copy to Word processor

Copies selected text or an entire entry directly to your word processor. Note: This function is only available if you have chosen to integrate your word processor with CLD (see Word processor integration).

(see also: Copying)

 Insert/Open User Annotations

Creates a new annotation, or lets you edit an existing annotation.

(see User Annotations)

 Properties

Opens a dialog box which lets you to change the way that CLD's entries are shown.

(see Properties)

 Backward in history

Goes back to a previously displayed entry.

(see History in the Content window)

 History List

Shows a list of the words you have searched for in the current session.

(see History in the Content window)

 Forward in history

Goes forward from a previous entry.

(see History in the Content window)

 Go to Search Panel

Opens/goes to the Search Panel.

 Help

Displays information about the program and how to use it.


Content window menu

To see a menu of options in the Content window:

• Click the right mouse button on any word, label, link, or icon in an entry.

A pop-up menu appears with these options:

Copy current entry  Click to copy current entry to the clipboard. (see Copying)

Print current entry  Click to print current entry. (see Printing)

Insert/Open User Annotations   Click to add or open an annotation. (see User annotations)

Properties  Click to change the way CLD entries are shown.  (see Properties)

The following additional options are only shown when you right-click on certain parts of an entry:

Right-click on:	Additional menu option shown:	Click option to:
grammar code, part of speech, or label	Explain ('X')	see a brief description of the selected grammar code, part of speech, or label
underlined Related Words link	Show Related Words	see a list of related words
underlined Word Families link	Show Word Family	see a list of word families
any word in an entry	Global Search	search CLD for the selected word
underlined study page link	Go to Study page	go to the selected study page
underlined picture link	Show Picture	show the selected picture
a red (British) sound icon [image] or a blue (American) sound icon	Play Soundfile	hear a headword spoken by a British or American native speaker
a red (British) sound icon [image] or a blue (American) sound icon	Pronunciation practice	open the dialog box to record and listen to your own pronunciation


Filters
About the Filters

Filters are tools that let you change the way that CLD is searched.  For example, you can search just for verbs or just for nouns.  You can also combine filters to limit your search even more.

Filter Groups

The filters are divided into seven filter groups, which are shown in the upper filter window. These groups are: Category, Part of speech, Grammar Label, Usage label, UK/US label, Keyword, and Related words.

The lower filter window shows the list of available filters for the selected filter group.  Each filter group contains different filters, which you can see by clicking the filter group buttons.The seven filter groups contain filters which limit your searches.  Use them when you want to search for particular types of words or information.

Category:  Limits your search to particular categories within the dictionary, such as examples or usage notes.

Part of speech:  Limits your search to particular parts of speech, such as nouns or verbs.

Grammar label:  Limits your search to words that show particular grammar patterns, such as countable or intransitive.

Usage label:  Limits your search to words that are labelled, such as 'informal' or 'written abbreviation'.

UK/US label:  Limits your search to either UK or US words.

Keyword:  Limits your search to either keywords (important words marked with a key symbol in the dictionary) or non-keywords.

Related words:  Use these filters to see all the entries in the dictionary that are related to the search word.


Using the Filters

To use the filters:  Click the Filters button [image] in the lower right corner of the Search Panel.

The Search Panel expands to show the filters (see below).

To turn on a filter:  click the box next to it.

A check mark appears in the box and the filter is turned on.

To turn off a filter:  click the box again.

The check mark disappears and the filter is turned off.

IMPORTANT: Once you turn on a filter, EVERY search you perform will be filtered until you turn off the filters.  For example, if you have the 'adjective' filter turned on and you search for a word which is a noun only, the search will result in no matches.

To temporarily turn off the filters, but retain the settings for later use: click the Filters button.

Using more than one filter at the same time:

When using more than one filter from the same filter group, the search results include words that match any of the selected filters in that group.  (In other words, the search is performed as if using an 'or' between the filters.)

When using more than one filter group, the search results include words that match all of the selected filters.  (In other words, the search is performed as if using an 'and' between the filters.

NOTE: You can still use the Grammar label filters even if you have hidden the grammar labels using the Properties button.

See also:

Properties

Key-in aid index


Wildcards

Wildcards are symbols that represent letters or other characters.  You can use them to help you search for words that you don't know how to spell, or to search for plurals or other derived forms of words.

Wildcards

?	=	one character

??	=	two characters

*	=	zero or more characters

Examples of searches using wildcards

A search for b?t finds bat, bet, bit, but, etc.

A search for b*t finds baby-sit, bait, ballet, bet, bittersweet, blunt, but, etc.

You can also combine wildcards:

A search for ?ate* finds bated, hateful, latent, mate, water, etc.

A search for ??ate?? finds amateur, plateau, stately, etc.

Wildcards are a useful way of finding both plural and singular versions of a word, variant spellings or words you are not sure how to spell:

A search for psychia* finds psychiatric, psychiatric care, psychiatrist, etc.

A search for colo*r finds colour and color.

A search for *ology finds anthology, anthropology, etc.

NOTE: You can interrupt a search at any time by changing or deleting the current search word in the text entry box.


Pictures

To see a list of all the pictures in CLD:

• Click the red, underlined Pictures link in the Content window,

or

click the [image] button in the Content window toolbar, then click Pictures in the pop-up menu.

The content window changes to show the Picture window.

To return to the dictionary:

• Click the red, underlined A-Z link,

or

right-click the [image] button, and click A-Z from the pop-up menu,

or

click the backward-in-history button [image].

See also:

Picture window

Viewing a picture from an entry


Picture window

This is an example of the picture window showing the picture for 'bathroom'.

The left side of the picture window lists all the pictures in CLD.  The right side of the window shows the current selected picture.

To see a picture: click its name in the list. (Click the scroll bar to move up and down in the list.)

To see labels in the picture: move your cursor over the picture.

Pop-up labels appear.

To see the definition of a label: click the label.

A small definition window opens.

To close the small definition window: click the close box [image].

To see more of the definition: click the Display more button.

The small definition window closes and the entry is shown in the content window.


Viewing a picture in an entry

To view a picture in an entry:

• Double-click the underlined pictures link in the entry.

A small picture window opens.

To return to the dictionary from the Picture window:

• Click the red, underlined A-Z link,

or

right-click the [image] button, and click A-Z from the pop-up menu,

or

click the backward-in-history button [image].

See also:

Picture window


User Annotations

You can make annotations, or notes, and attach them to any entry in CLD (or any other book).  The notes are stored in User Annotations books and can be searched, read, and edited whenever you want.

Click any underlined topic to find out more about it.

Parts of the annotation window

Adding an annotation to an entry

Viewing an annotation

The User Annotations window

The User Annotation window menu

The User Annotations Search Panel

Creating additional User Annotations books

The Active Annotations book


Parts of the User Annotations window

Example of the user annotations window for 'dolphin'.  The parts of the window are described below.

TOOLBAR BUTTONS

The toolbar at the top of the User Annotations window contains the following buttons:

 Save Annotation: Click to save your annotation.

 New Annotation:  Click to create a new annotation.

 Delete Annotation:  Click to delete the current annotation.

 Backward/Forward:  Click to see a previous note or to move forward from a previous note.

NOTE: The [image]  button only records the moves you make from the point in time when you open the User Annotations window and until you close it again.

 Preferences:  Click to open the Preferences window, then click Reindex now to have the program index your Active Annotations book.  You do not have to index your annotations book, but doing so will speed up searches for words in that book.  Reindexing is useful if you have a very large number of annotations.

 (Go to) Search Panel:  Click to open the Search Panel.

Control buttons [image] perform the following functions:

• minimize button [image] minimizes the annotations window and puts it in the taskbar.

• maximize button [image] switches between full screen and window view.

• close button [image] closes the annotations window.

Link button [image] Click to add, remove, or change a link from an annotation to a book.  (see linking an annotation)

Text area:  Type in your annotation here. (see also: user annotations window menu)


Adding an annotation to an entry

You can add an annotation to any entry in CLD.

To add an annotation to an entry:

• Click anywhere in the entry, then click the annotation button [image] in the toolbar

or

right click in the entry and choose Insert/Open Annotation from the pop-up menu.

The User Annotations window opens.

• Type in your notes.

• Click [image] to save your note.

• Click the close button [image].

The Annotations window closes and the annotation mark [image] is placed in front of the word in the white toolbar of the content window (see below).

See also:

User annotations window

Viewing an annotation


Deleting an annotation

To delete an annotation:

• Open the annotation that you want to delete. (See Viewing an annotation if you don't know how to do this.)

• Click the delete annotation button [image] in the toolbar of the annotations window.


Viewing an annotation

Once you have added an annotation to an entry, that entry is marked with an annotation icon [image] in the white toolbar of the content window and by the highlighted Insert/Open Annotations button [image] in the blue toolbar.

To view an annotation associated with an annotated entry:

• Click the icon [image] or the button [image] to see the annotation.

NOTE: When you browse the entries in a Content window, only annotations in the Active annotations book are marked with annotation icons.

To view a list of all the annotations in the Active annotations book:

• Click the Active annotations icon [image] at the bottom of the CLD search panel.

The Active annotation search panel opens and shows a list of entries with annotations.

• Click an entry in the list to view its attached annotation.

See also:

Adding an annotation to an entry

The User Annotations window

The User Annotations Search Panel

Creating additional User Annotations books

The Active Annotations book


Linking an annotation
Linking/unlinking an annotation

When you first create an annotation in CLD, that annotation is automatically linked to CLD.  You can also choose to link an annotation with other books.

To link an annotation to another book:

• Open the book and select the entry that you want to link the annotation to.

• Open the annotation.

• Click the link button [image] in the annotation window.

A list of all open books and their current entries is shown.

• Click the name of the book that you want to link the annotation to.

The new link is added to the list of linked books at the bottom of the annotation.

• Click the save button  [image] in the annotation window.

To unlink an annotation:

• Open the annotation that you want to unlink.

• Right-click the name of the book that you want to unlink at the bottom of the annotation window, then choose Delete Association from the pop-up menu.

The name of the link is removed from the list at the bottom of the window.

Note: If all the links are removed from an annotation, the link button appears without the chain [image].


The User Annotations window

is a small pop-up window that you use to type in a note about an entry.  It appears when you click the Insert/Open notation button [image] in the Content window toolbar.

See also:

Parts of the User Annotations window

Adding an annotation to an entry

Viewing an annotation

The User Annotations Search Panel

Creating additional User Annotations books

The Active Annotations book


User Annotations window menu

To open the User annotations window menu:

• Right-click the mouse anywhere in the text area of the user annotations window.

The user annotations window menu appears with the following options (see picture below):

Note:  If an option appears in grey type, it is not available.

• Click an option to:

Undo edit:  removes the latest change

Global search:  searches CLD (or the active book) for the selected text

Cut:  cuts the selected text and stores it on the clipboard

Copy:  copies the selected text to the clipboard

Copy to Wordprocessor:  copies the selected text to your open word processor

Paste:  pastes cut or copied text

Print annotation:  prints selected text from your printer

Delete:  deletes selected text

Select all:  selects all the text in the annotations window

.


The User Annotations Search Panel

gives you access to all the annotated entries in the User annotation book at one time.

This picture shows an example of the search panel, which opens when you click the User annotations icon in the CLD search panel.  The panel contains a text entry box, where you type a word to search for, and two lists.

The upper list shows an alphabetical list of all the annotated entries in the annotations book.

The lower list shows the annotated entires which match the current search word.

To view an annotation:  Click any entry in the list to view its attached annotation.

To return to the CLD search panel:

• Click the BOOKcase icon [image] at the bottom of the User annotations search panel.

The BOOKcase bar opens.

• Click the Cambridge University Press shelf icon [image].

See also:

Adding an annotation to an entry

Viewing an annotation

The User Annotations window

Creating additional User Annotations books

The Active Annotations book

Search panel


Creating additional user annotations books
Creating additional annotations books

CLD initially contains only one User Annotations book.  However, you can create additional annotations books yourself.

To create a new annotations book:

• Click the BOOKcase icon [image] at the bottom of the Search panel.

The BOOKcase bar opens.

• Right-click the User Annotations Shelf icon [image] at the top to open the Shelf menu.

• Choose New Annotations from the menu.

• Type a name for your new annotations book in the pop up box, and press ENTER.

See also:

Adding an annotation to an entry

Viewing an annotation

The User Annotations window

The User Annotations Search Panel

The Active annotations book


The Active annotations book

The Active annotations book, which is represented by the  [image]  icon at the bottom of all shelves, is automatically included in all searches.

Note:  Only one annotation book at a time can be designated the Active annotations book.

To make an annotations book the Active annotations book:

• Right-click its icon, then click Active Annotations from the pop-up menu.

A check appears showing that it is now the Active annotation book, and its icon is placed on all shelves.

Note:  Only annotations from the Active annotation book will be marked with the annotation symbol [image] in the Content window (see Adding an annotation.)

If a search finds a match in the Active Annotations book, a green lamp appears in front of the Active Annotations icon showing that there is a matching annotation.

To see the matching annotation:

• Click the Active annotations icon [image].

The active annotation search panel opens and the matching annotation is shown in a separate pop-up window.

See also:

Adding an annotation to an entry

Viewing an annotation

The User Annotations window

The User Annotations Search Panel

Creating additional User Annotations books

BOOKcase bar

Shelves


Internet Search Shelf

In addition to searching in CLD, you can also search the Internet for occurrences of your search word.  (Note:  Your computer must have a Web browser and be able to connect with the Internet to use this feature.)

To search for a word on the Internet:

• Click the BOOKcase icon [image] in the lower left corner of the Search Panel.

The BOOKcase bar opens.

• Click the Internet Search shelf icon [image].

The Internet Shelf opens (see picture below).  This shelf contains a number of Internet icons, each of which represents an individual Internet search engine.

• Click the Internet icon that represents the search engine that you want to use.

The background colour of the icon changes to indicate that it is now the active book.  (In the picture below, AltaVista is the active book.)

• Type the word that you want to search for in the text entry box at the top of the Internet Shelf.

• Click the FIND button to start the search.

The program opens you default web browser, connects to the selected Internet search engine, copies your search word into the search engine's text field and begins searching.

Note:  When the active book is an Internet search engine, the search panel contains a text entry field only. The actual search is performed by and the search results are displayed in the external program.

To return to CLD:

• Click the CLD icon [image] in the process line at the bottom of your screen.

The CLD content window opens.

• Click the Search Panel button [image] in the content window toolbar.

• Minimize or close your web browser.

See also:

The BOOKcase bar

Shelves


History

You can see a list of all the entries you have searched for in the current session, and easily jump backward and forward within that list.

Click any underlined topic to find out more about it.

History in the Search panel

History in the Content window

The LOG file


History in the Search panel

To see a list of the words you have looked up from the Search panel in the current session:

• Move the mouse pointer over the BOOKcase 4.0 icon [image] at the bottom of the search panel.

A horizontal bar pops out showing three buttons.

• Click [image] to see a list of the words previously searched for, or click [image] to go back step-by-step in the Search Panel history, or click [image] to go forward step-by-step in the Search Panel history (see below).

If an arrow is shown in grey, you cannot move in that direction.

To go to a word in the history list:  click the word, and it appears in the search panel.

To close the history list: click [image] or move the mouse pointer away.

See also:

Search panel

History in the Content window


History in the Content window

To see a list of the dictionary entries you have viewed in the current session:

• Click the History button [image] in the Content window toolbar.

A list of entries you have viewed opens.

• Click any word in the list to see its entry.

To move back to the previous entry:

 • Click the Backward button [image].

Your previous entry appears.  Click again to see the entry before that one.  In this way, you can move backward entry by entry through your previous entries.

To move forward from a previous entry:

• Click the Forward button  [image].

To close the history list: click anywhere inside the Content window, or click the History button [image] again.

See also:

Content window

History in the Search panel


Copying and printing

You can print all or part of any entry in CLD.  You can also copy and paste entries into your own documents.

Click any underlined topic to find out more about it.

Copying

Printing


Copying text
Copying

You can copy all or part of any entry in CLD.  NOTE: You cannot copy more than one entry at a time.

To copy an entire dictionary entry from CLD:

• Click the mouse anywhere inside the entry.

• Click the Copy button [image],

or

right-click the mouse and choose the command Copy entry.

The entry is copied to the clipboard and can be pasted into other documents or applications (see below).

To copy part of a dictionary entry from CLD:

• Use the mouse to select (highlight) the text in the entry that you want to copy.

• Click the Copy button

or

right-click the mouse and choose the command Copy selected text, or press Ctrl+C.

The selected text is copied to the clipboard and can be pasted into other documents or applications (see below).

To paste text from the clipboard to your document:

• Click the cursor at the place in your document where you want to insert the text.

• Press Ctrl+V to paste the text into your document.

See also:

Printing


Copying from CLD to your word processor
Copying from CLD to your integrated word processor

Note:  These steps provide a shortcut to copying that will only work if you have integrated your word processor with CLD.

To learn how to copy from CLD if your word processor is not integrated with CLD, click copying.

To copy an entry from CLD to an open document in your integrated word processor:

• Click the cursor in the document where you want to insert the entry.

• Click anywhere inside the CLD entry (to copy the entire entry), or highlight the part of an entry that you want to copy.

• Click the Copy to word processor button [image] in the Content window toolbar,

or

right-click the selected text to open the menu, then click Copy selected text.

The selected text is copied directly into your document.

See also:

word processor integration


Printing

Click any underlined topic to find out more about it.

Printing an entry from CLD

Printing a list of words that match your search


Printing an entry from CLD

To print an entry from CLD:

• Make sure the entry that you want to print is showing in the Content window.

• Click the mouse anywhere inside the entry, then click the Print button [image],

or

right-click the mouse in the entry and choose the command Print entry.

NOTE: You cannot print more than one entry at a time.


Printing a list of words that match your search

To print a list of words from CLD that match your search:

• Right-click anywhere in the search results index after you have performed a search.

A menu opens.

• Click Print matches.

A list of the current search results is sent to your printer.


Hotkey

Click any underlined topic to find out more about it.

About the hotkey

Using the hotkey to search for a word

What is the hotkey owner?

Making CLD the hotkey owner

Changing the hotkey owner

Auto lookup


About the hotkey
About the Hotkey (Ctrl+9)

What is the 'hotkey'?

It's the combination of two keys, Control and 9, pressed together (shown as Ctrl+9).

What does it do?

It's a quick and easy way to look up a word from any open document, email, or website.

How do I use it?

See Using the hotkey to search for a word

See also:

Hotkey

What is the hotkey owner?

Making CLD the hotkey owner

Auto lookup

Changing the hotkey owner


What is the hotkey owner?

The hotkey owner is the book that will be searched whenever you use the hotkey (Ctrl+9) to look up a word.  You can choose to make any book the hotkey owner, including your User Annotations book or an Internet search engine.

If no book has been selected as the hotkey owner, the word will be searched for in the most recently used book.

See also:

About the hotkey

Making CLD the hotkey owner

Using the hotkey to search for a word

Changing the hotkey owner

Auto lookup


Making CLD the hotkey owner

The hotkey owner is the book that will be searched whenever you use the hotkey (Ctrl+9) to look up a word.

To select CLD as the hotkey owner:

• Click the right mouse button on the CLD icon [image] in the search panel.

The CLD book menu opens.

• Click the command Hotkey Owner.

A check mark appears in front of the command to show that CLD has be selected as the Hotkey 'owner'.   CLD will remain the hotkey owner until you change it again, and will be the first book searched every time you use the hotkey (Ctrl+9) to look up a word.

See also:

Hotkey

Using the hotkey to search for a word

Changing the hotkey owner


Using the hotkey to search for a word
Using the hotkey (Ctrl+9) to search for a word

The hotkey (Ctrl+9) is a quick and easy way to look up a word from any open document, email, or website.

To use the hotkey to look up words in CLD:

• Make sure CLD is the hotkey owner.

See Making CLD the hotkey owner to find out how to do this.

• Use your mouse to select (highlight) the word in your document, email, or website that you want to look up.

• Press Ctrl+9.

CLD's search panel opens, inserts the search word in the text entry box and starts the search.

Note:  If you press the hotkey (Ctrl+9) without first selecting a word with your mouse, CLD will simply open.  You can then type a word into the text entry box and begin a search.

IMPORTANT:  The hotkey function will only work with programs that use Copy/Paste via the Clipboard, or use the key combinations Ctrl+C / Ctrl+V to copy and paste.

See also:

Hotkey

Making CLD the hotkey owner

Changing the hotkey owner


Changing the hotkey owner

To change the hotkey owner:

• Click the right mouse button on the icon of the book that you want to make the hotkey owner.

A book menu opens.

• Click the command Hotkey Owner.

A check mark appears in front of the command to show that the book has be selected as the Hotkey 'owner'.  This book will remain the hotkey owner until you change it again, and will be the first book searched every time you use the hotkey (Ctrl+9) to look up a word.

See also:

What is the hotkey owner?

Making CLD the hotkey owner

About the hotkey

Using the hotkey to search for a word


Word processor integration

Integrating, or linking, CLD with your word processor allows you to use the dictionary while typing or reading documents with your word processor.  The integration works in both directions: You can look up words in CLD from your word processor, and you can copy and paste text from CLD into your documents.

To integrate CLD with your word processor:

• Right-click the BOOKcase icon [image] at the bottom of the Search Panel.

• Select Word Processor...

A pop-up box opens.

• Click the name of your word processor in the top window, then click 'Learner's Dictionary' in the bottom window.

• Click OK.

See also:

Copying from CLD to your integrated word processor


Auto minimize

This function lets you control the number of different books' windows that remain open at the same time, and is only important if you are using more than one book at the same time.  The default setting is to display only one book's windows at a time, which means that if you switch from one book to another, the first book's window will be minimized when the second book's window opens.

To change the Auto minimize mode:

• Right-click the BOOKcase icon [image] at the bottom of the Search Panel.

The BOOKcase menu opens.

• Click Auto minimize.

The tick disappears, which shows that from this point on windows from every book that you open will stay open until you close or minimize them.

Note:  If you change the Auto minimize mode in one session, the program will always start up in that mode until you change the function again.

See also:

The BOOKcase menu


Study pages

The Study pages give clear, simple information about a variety of language areas, with plenty of examples as well as sound and graphics.

To open the study pages:

• Click the underlined Study pages link in the top right corner of the Content window (see picture below)

Note:  You must have an Internet browser installed onto your computer to view the study pages.  If you using a version of Internet Explorer older than version 4.0, the study pages will appear in a separate window.

• Click the Maximize button [image] at the top of the study page window.

IMPORTANT:   For best performance, you should always maximize the window whenever you are viewing the Study pages.

Study pages are arranged in two ways:

alphabetically on the right side of the window

grouped together into particular topics on the left side of the window

To go to a particular study page: click the icon next to it.

To return to the study pages index: click the index [image] button.

To return to the dictionary:

• click the underlined A-Z link in the top right corner of the window,

or

click [image] and select A-Z from the pop-up menu.


Exercises

CLD contains two types of exercises:

Study page exercises

Picture exercises

Click on the underlined words to find out how to do these exercises.


Study page exercises

Study page exercises are based on information presented in the study pages, and each exercise is linked to its corresponding study page.

To go to the exercises:

• Click the underlined Exercises link in the top right corner of the Content window (see picture below).

• Click the Maximize button [image] at the top of the window.

IMPORTANT:   For best performance, you should always maximize the window whenever you are working with the exercises.

• Type your name in the box.

This will allow you to keep a record of your scores.

To choose a study page exercise:

• Click one of the exercise titles listed under Study Page Exercises in the index on the left side of the window.

There are two types of study page exercises: multiple choice exercises and type-in exercises.

Multiple choice exercises:

Adjectives and adverbs

Noun forms

Verbs meaning perform

Homophones

Verb patterns

To answer a question in a multiple choice exercise:

• Click the question to highlight it, then DOUBLE-CLICK an answer from the list in the centre column.

The word(s) you have chosen will appear in the sentence.

To change an answer:

• Click the question again and DOUBLE-CLICK a different answer from the list.

Note: You can answer the questions in any order you want.

Type-in exercises:

Affixes

Irregular and problem verbs

Suffixes

To answer a question in a type-in exercise:

• Click the question to highlight it, then type in your answer.

To change an answer:

• Click the question again and type in your new answer.

Note: You can answer the questions in any order you want.

See also: Study page exercise buttons

Returning to the dictionary

To exit the exercises and return to the dictionary: click the underlined A-Z link in the top right corner of the window,

or

click [image] in the toolbar, then select A-Z from the pop-up menu.

See also:

Looking up words in the exercises

Picture exercises


Study page exercise buttons

The toolbar at the bottom of the study page exercises contains the following buttons:

Each button is described below.

 Click to see how many questions you have answered correctly in the current exercise. Correct answers are shown in green, incorrect answers are shown in red.

 Click for the answer to the current question. The answer appears in yellow and it will not count towards your score.

  Click to see all the answers in the current exercise.

Your correct answers are shown in green. Your incorrect answers are shown in red. Answers to questions which you have not attempted are shown in yellow.

To see the correct answer to a question that you have got wrong: click the question to highlight it, then click [image].

 Click to go to the study page which gives you more information about this topic.

 Click to clear all your answers and start an exercise again.

 Click to get the next 10 questions in an exercise.

The questions are selected randomly from 80-200 questions, depending on the topic.

 Click to exit the exercises and allow a new user to try them.

(DO NOT CLICK UNTIL YOU HAVE FINISHED DOING EXERCISES AND WANT TO GET YOUR FINAL SCORE.)  The Name screen appears and shows your overall total.


Picture exercises

Picture exercises are based on pictures in CLD and each exercise is linked to its corresponding picture.

To go to the exercises:

• Click the underlined Exercises link in the top right corner of the Content window (see picture below).

• Click the Maximize button [image] at the top of the window.

IMPORTANT:   For best performance, you should always maximize the window whenever you are working with the exercises.

• Type your name in the box.

This will allow you to keep a record of your scores.

To choose a picture exercise:

• Click one of the exercise titles listed under Picture Exercises in the index on the left side of the window.

To do an exercise:

• Click and hold the mouse button down on a word in the left column, then drag the cursor to the correct picture or part of a picture and release the button.

Note: Do not release the mouse button until you see a box around the part of the picture you want to 	label.  You may have to move your cursor around the picture until a box appears.

- If you match the correct word to the picture you will hear the word Correct and the word will disappear from the list.

- If you do not match correctly, you will hear the word Wrong and the word will remain on the list.

- If you answer a question incorrectly, you can try again.

Note: You can choose the words in any order you want.

See also:  Picture exercise buttons

Returning to the dictionary

To exit the exercises and return to the dictionary: click the underlined A-Z link in the top right corner of the window,

or

click [image] in the toolbar, then select A-Z from the pop-up menu.

See also: Study page exercises


Picture exercise buttons

The toolbar at the bottom of the study page exercises contains the following buttons:

Each button is described below.

 Click to see how many pictures you have labelled correctly in the current exercise.

  Button is not available for picture exercises.

  Click to open a small picture window, which shows the same picture as the exercise.

• Move your cursor over the objects in the small window to see the correct answers.

• Click the close box [image] in the small window to close it

or

click Display more in the small window to close it, exit the exercises and open the picture window with a large view of the picture.

  Button is not available for picture exercises.

 Click to delete all your answers and start an exercise again.

 Click to go to the next picture exercise in the index.

 Click to exit the exercises and allow a new user to try them.

(DO NOT CLICK UNTIL YOU HAVE FINISHED DOING EXERCISES AND WANT TO GET YOUR FINAL SCORE.)  The Name screen appears and shows your overall total.


Looking up words in the exercises
Looking up (searching for) words in the exercises

If you are not sure about the meaning of any of the words in the exercises, you can quickly look them up in the dictionary.

To look up a word:

• Double-click on the word.

The word is copied to the search panel and the search results are shown.

• Click [image] or any word in the search panel to go to its definition.

The exercise window changes to the content window and shows the definition.

To return to the exercise: Click the underlined Exercises link in the top corner of the content window,

or

right-click the AZ button [image], and click Exercises from the pop-up menu,

or

click the backward-in-history button [image].


Properties

This feature lets you decide how you want entries displayed in CLD.  For example, if you don't want to see the phonetic transcriptions, you can choose to hide them.  Or, if you only need to practise American pronunciations, you can hide the British ones.  Follow the directions below to customize CLD.

To open the Properties dialog box:

• Click the Properties button [image] in the Content window toolbar (or right-click anywhere within the dictionary text, then select Properties...).

The Properties dialog box opens.  Use this box to choose the kind of information you want the dictionary to show and which parts of each entry you want to see.

To select a stylesheet:  CLD currently offers only one stylesheet, labeled 'default stylesheet'.

To select the visible components:  click the small boxes on the left side of the window to add or remove a check mark.  A check mark means that the component is turned on and you will see it in the dictionary.  View your selections in the preview box.

Display phonetics: Click the check to remove it and hide the phonetics in an entry.

Display UK sound icons: Click the check to remove it. The UK sound button [image] will disappear from entries and the UK pronunciations will be unavailable.

Display US sound icons: Click the check to remove it. The US sound button [image] will disappear from entries and the US pronunciations will be unavailable.

Display grammar labels: Click the check to remove it and hide the grammar labels.

Display irregular inflections: Click the check to remove it and hide the irregular forms.

Display related words: Click the check to remove it. The underlined Related words link will disappear from entries and will be unavailable.

Display word families:  Click the check to remove it. The underlined Words families link will disappear from entries and will be unavailable.

Click OK to accept the changes and close the window.

Click APPLY to accept the changes and leave the window open.

Click CANCEL to cancel the changes and close the window.

Note: Changes are saved until you change them again.


The LOG file

The installation process copies an empty file, CLD001CP.LOG, to your CLD directory (typically the default directory C:\Program Files\Cambridge\Cld001cp).

Whenever you look up a word or move around the text windows (A-Z, Exercises, Pictures, Study pages) in CLD, these actions are recorded in this log.

Cambridge University Press would very much like to receive this file from you at regular intervals. We will use these files to improve our existing dictionaries and to plan new ones.

Please email your CLD001CP.LOG file to:  cld@cambridge.org


The CLD Desktop icon

If you followed the recommended installation, the CLD icon [image] appears on your desktop.

Double-click this icon to start the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary.


Auto lookup

The Auto lookup function is linked to the Hotkey (Ctrl+9) and allows you to toggle between the following two modes:

Open both the Search Panel and the Content window.  (This is the default setting.)

Open the Search Panel only.

To change the Auto lookup mode:

• Right-click the BOOKcase icon [image] at the bottom of the Search Panel.

The BOOKcase menu opens.

• Click Auto lookup.  The check disappears, which shows that when you next use the Hotkey (Ctrl+9) to look up a word, only CLD's Search Panel will open automatically.

Note: If you change the Auto lookup mode in one session, the program will always start up in that mode until you change the function again.

See also:

BOOKcase menu

Hotkey


About BOOKcase 4.0

Click any underlined term to find out more about it.

What is BOOKcase 4.0 ?

Basic BOOKcase concepts

The BOOKcase bar

The BOOKcase menu

Uninstalling BOOKcase


What is BOOKcase 4.0 ?

BOOKcase 4.0 is a program that helps you use CLD and is automatically installed on your computer when you install CLD.  You can use BOOKcase to organize all your CD-ROM books.  It also lets you make notes, called annotations, about entries in CLD and organize them in a separate User Annotations book.  BOOKcase also lets you access Internet search engines.

see also:

Basic BOOKcase concepts

The BOOKcase bar

The BOOKcase menu

Uninstalling BOOKcase


Basic BOOKcase concepts

BOOKcase is a program which helps you search, organize, and display information from CLD (and any other electronic books you might have).  You can think of BOOKcase as a real bookcase with several different shelves.  You arrange your electronic books on these shelves, and choose which books you want to search.  Where possible, we have used CLD to show how BOOKcase works.

See also:

The BOOKcase bar

The BOOKcase menu


The BOOKcase bar

The BOOKcase bar is the control centre for the BOOKcase program.  Use it to select any of the existing shelves, to create new shelves and to customize BOOKcase.

To open the BOOKcase bar: Click the BOOKcase icon [image] in the lower left corner of CLD Search Panel.

 ←  CLD Search Panel     [image] ←  BOOKcase bar

To return to CLD: Click the Cambridge University Press icon [image].

The BOOKcase bar consists of the following elements:

Control buttons

From left to right, these buttons will:

- minimize the BOOKcase bar.  To restore it again, click the BOOKcase icon [image] in process line at the bottom of your screen.

- toggle between Always-on-top mode and Normal mode

In Always-on-top mode, BOOKcase is reduced to a small window displaying only the control buttons and the BOOKcase icon, which gives access to the central BOOKcase customization menu (see BOOKcase menu)

- close the BOOKcase bar and all other BOOKcase windows and exit the program.

The BOOKcase icon

-Click this icon on any shelf to open the BOOKcase bar.

-Click the right mouse button on the BOOKcase icon to open a menu that lets you create new shelves and customize the BOOKcase program (see BOOKcase menu).

Up and down arrows

The up and down arrows indcate the length of the BOOKcase bar.

-If the arrows are blank, the bar is fully displayed.

-If one or both arrows are black, the window is too short to display all the shelf icons in the bar.

Click the black arrow(s) to scroll through the rest of the icons in the bar without resizing the window.

NOTE: The BOOKcase bar is resizable.  Place the mouse on the upper of lower edge of the bar. The mouse pointer changes into a two-headed pointer.  Click and hold the mouse button, while you drag the bar to make it longer or shorter (but not wider or more narrow).

Shelves

The icons located between the up and down arrows represent shelves.

-Move the cursor over each icon to see a pop-up label displaying its name

-Click an icon to open its associated shelf and search panel

-Click the right mouse button on an icon to customize a shelf (see Shelf menu)

-Click and drag an icon to move it to a new position on the BOOKcase bar

Standard shelves

User Annotations

In BOOKcase you can create annotations and attach them to CLD, or to other electronic books.  Click the User Annotations icon to open the User Annotations shelf.

Internet Search

Click the Internet Search icon to open the Internet shelf, which lets you search the individual search engines listed on that shelf.  BOOKcase will use your default web browser to do this.

Publishers' Shelves

Publishers' shelves are often pre-defined by the publisher, and usually contain books from that publisher only.  For example, the Cambridge University Press icon [image] represents the

Cambridge University Press shelf.

- Click the Cambridge icon to open its shelf, which contains CLD and a connections to Cambridge University Press' dictionaries website.

User Defined Shelves

You can create your own shelves, which contain a selection of books that you have grouped together (see User Defined Shelves).

See also:

About BOOKcase 4.0

Shelves

Books

Search panel

Content window

User Annotations

Internet Search shelf

Hotkey


The BOOKcase menu

The BOOKcase menu provides a list of options which let you customize the BOOKcase program.

To open the BOOKcase menu:

• Right-click the BOOKcase icon [image] at the bottom of the search panel.

The BOOKcase menu appears and shows the following functions:

About BOOKcase 4.0

Click to open TEXTware's window.  Click the TEXTware web address to go directly to TEXTware's home page (opened in your default Internet browser).

New Bookshelf

Click to create a new shelf. (See Creating your own shelf.)

Install Books

Click to open a dialog box for installing new books. Click 'Scan system'.  The program searches for other CD books to be added to BOOKcase 4.0.

Animations

Click to toggle between slow and fast animation speed (the speed with which 'name tags' pop out when you move the mouse over a book icon and the speed with which shelf icons are moved when you select another shelf). A check mark to the left of the command indicates that slow animation speed has been selected.

Close all (Viewers/Books)

Click to close all open book windows

Font

Click to see to change the font settings applied to all Content windows, Annotations windows and Search panels.

NOTE:  The available choices depend on the fonts installed on your PC. You should be very careful when selecting an alternative font, because some fonts cannot display all characters used in the books in BOOKcase 4.0. We recommend that you always use Arial and change only the font size.

Language

Click to see a list of available languages.

Word Processor

Click to see a list of word processors that support integration with BOOKcase 4.0.  Define or redefine your word processor integration from here.

NOTE: Your current choice of Word processor will apply to all books.

Auto minimize

to toggle between showing one book window at a time and multiple windows. (This function is only active if you use more than one electronic book at the same time.  See Auto minimize for more information.)

Auto lookup

to toggle between the following two modes when using the Hotkey (Ctrl+9).  (See Auto lookup for more information.)

See also:

About BOOKcase 4.0


Uninstalling BOOKcase
Uninstalling BOOKcase 4.0

To uninstall BOOKcase:

• Right-click the BOOKcase tray icon [image] in the lower right corner of your screen, then click EXIT.

• Click and hold the Windows Start button, point to Settings, then Control Panel.

The Control Panel window opens.

• Double-click Add/Remove Programs.

The Add/Remove Programs dialog box appears.

• Click BOOKcase 4.0 to select it, then click the Add/Remove button.

BOOKcase 4.0 is removed.

• Click OK to close the dialog box.

NOTE: This process does not delete the User Annotation files (they are in Microsoft Access® format and can be used without BOOKcase 4.0). Therefore, the directory C:\Program files\TEXTware\BOOKcase40 is not deleted from your hard disk.  For more information about BOOKcase 4.0, see About BOOKcase.

See also:

Uninstalling CLD


Shelves

A shelf is a place to keep one or more books and other items, such as User Annotations and Internet search engines, which will be searched together.  Each shelf has its own search panel and its own shelf icon, located at the top of its search panel bar.  CLD is found on the Cambridge University Press [image] shelf (see below).

To view all the shelves in BOOKcase:

• Click the BOOKcase icon [image] at the bottom of the search panel.

The BOOKcase bar opens and shows all the shelves currently installed.

To select and open a shelf from the BOOKcase 4.0 bar:

• Click the relevant shelf icon.

To customize a shelf:

• Click the right mouse button on the shelf icon.

The Shelf menu opens. See The Shelf Menu.

See also:

Searching a shelf

Reordering the books on a shelf

Publisher's Shelves

User Defined Shelves

User Annotations Shelf

The BOOKcase bar

Search panel


Searching a shelf

When you start a search, all the books and user annotations on that shelf are searched.  These books are searched in the following order:

• the active book (regardless of its position on the shelf)

• all other books on the shelf, in order starting with the one nearest the top of the shelf.

During the search, the program uses the following symbols to show you which books have been searched and whether a match has been found:

A stationary [image]  blue-and-yellow wheel: the book has not yet been searched.

A rotating  [image] blue-and-yellow wheel: the book is currently being searched.

A green lamp [image] icon: one or more matches have been found.

Note:  Icons (books) with no lamps show that no matches were found in those books.

As soon as you see the results for the active book, you can begin viewing them in the Content Window, even if the program is still searching the other books on the shelf.

Note: If an icon on the shelf represents a web-address (like Cambridge Online) this is excluded from the search. Searches on the web are only initiated when your web browser is open.

See also:

Reordering the books on a shelf


Reordering the books on a shelf

When you start a search, all the books and user annotations on the current shelf are searched in the following order:

• the active book (regardless of its position on the shelf)

• all other books on the shelf, in order, starting with the one nearest the top of the shelf.

To change the order the books on a shelf (and the order that they are searched):

• Move the mouse pointer to the book icon you want to move.

• Click and hold the mouse while you drag the book icon to the position where you want to place the book.

Note: If there are many books on a shelf, it may not be possible to see all the book icons at the same time.  Look at the arrows at the top and/or the bottom of the bar.  If they are blank, the bar is displayed in full.  However, if one or both arrows are black, not all the icons can be seen.

• Click the black arrow(s) to scroll through the rest of the icons in the bar without resizing the window.

Note: The BOOKcase bar is resizable.  Place the mouse on the upper or lower edge of the bar. The mouse pointer changes into a two-headed pointer.  Click and hold the mouse button, while you drag the bar to make it longer or shorter (but not wider or more narrow).

See also:

The active book

Searching a shelf


Publisher's shelves
Publishers' Shelves

A Publisher's shelf is a predefined shelf which is installed automatically, and which usually includes only books from that publisher.

For example, when you installed CLD, the Cambridge University Press shelf was created automatically.  It is designated by the Cambridge University logo [image] at the top of the grey bar in the CLD Search panel.

Below that are the icons that represent the 'books' on the Cambridge shelf:  the CLD icon [image] and the Cambridge Online icon [image], which represents a connection to Cambridge University Press' dictionaries website.

A Publisher's shelf usually allows only limited customization.  For instance, it is normally not possible to:

- rename or delete the shelf.

- reorder the books on the shelf.

- delete a book from the shelf (if you want to remove a book from a Publisher's Shelf, you will have to uninstall it - see uninstalling CLD for an example of how to uninstall a book).

- place other books or other BOOKcase 4.0 items on the shelf.

Therefore, most of the commands displayed in a Publisher's Shelf menu will usually be unavailable and shown in grey.

See also:

Shelves

User Defined Shelves

Internet Search Shelf

User Annotations Shelf


User Defined Shelves

User defined shelves are shelves that you create yourself.  For example, you might want to create a shelf that contains only your favourite books, or only those that you use frequently.

Click any underlined term to find out more about it.

Creating your own shelf

Deleting a shelf

See also:

Shelves

Publisher's Shelves

Internet Search Shelf

User Annotations Shelf


Creating your own shelf

To create your own shelf:

• Right-click the BOOKcase icon [image] in the lower left corner of CLD Search Panel.

The BOOKcase menu opens.

• Click New Bookshelf.

The program creates a new bookshelf (indicated by the User-defined shelf icon [image]) and opens the Contents dialog box.

• Click the titles listed in the Contents dialog box that you want to place on the new bookshelf, then click OK.  (To deselect an item, click it again.)

The Contents dialog box closes and the books you have selected appear on the new shelf.

• Type in a name for your new shelf in the highlighted text entry box.

The name appears in the top left corner of the new bookshelf search panel (see example below).

To return to CLD:

• Click the BOOKcase icon [image].

The BOOKcase menu opens.

• Click the Cambridge University Press icon [image].

• Click the CLD icon [image].


Deleting a shelf

To delete a shelf:

• Right-click the shelf icon of the shelf you want to delete.

The shelf menu appears.

• Click Delete.

Note: It is not possible to delete a Publisher's shelf in this way.  To do this, you must uninstall the Publisher's programs.  See Installing and Uninstalling.


The User Annotations Shelf

This shelf contains all the user annotation books, including those that you have created yourself (see Creating additional user annotations books).

To open the User Annotations shelf:

• Click the BOOKcase icon [image] at the bottom of the search panel.

The BOOKcase bar opens.

• Click the User annotations shelf icon [image].

The User annotations shelf and search panel open (see picture below).

	Text entry box: type in the word that you want to search for annotations. List of all annotations. Click any to open its corresponding annotation. List of annotations that contain the current search word(s).
To return to the CLD search panel:

• Click the BOOKcase icon [image] at the bottom of the User annotations search panel.

The BOOKcase bar opens.

• Click the Cambridge University Press shelf icon [image].

See also:

The shelf icon

The shelf menu

User Annotations


The Shelf Menu

Each shelf icon has a menu that contains the following options.

To see a shelf's menu:

• Right-click the mouse on the shelf icon.

The shelf menu appears with some or all of the following options:

About (name of shelf)...

to get a brief description of the current shelf.

Delete

to delete the current shelf.

Contents

to define (or redefine) the contents (books and other items) of the current shelf.

Rename

to give the current shelf another name.

Commands that are not available for the current shelf are shown in grey. For example, it is not possible to delete a Publisher's shelf using the shelf menu option Delete.  In order to delete a Publisher's Shelf, choose Start \ Settings \ Control Panel \ Add & Remove Programs.

Note:  The User Annotations Shelf menu also contains the option New annotations that allows you to create additional User Annotations books.

See also:

Shelves

Publisher's Shelves

User Defined Shelves

User Annotations Shelf

Internet Search Shelf

The BOOKcase 4.0 bar

Books

Search panel


The shelf icon

Each shelf is represented by a shelf icon, found at the top of the shelf.  In CLD, the shelf icon is represented by Cambridge University Press' logo and looks like this: . Shelf icons provide access to their shelves, and each has a shelf menu that lets you customize the corresponding shelf.

To see all the shelf icons in BOOKcase:

• Click the BOOKcase icon [image] in the lower left corner of the Search Panel.

The BOOKcase bar opens, showing all the shelf icons in a column below the BOOKcase shelf icon (see below).

←  BOOKcase bar

The shelf icons are:

 User annotations shelf icon: click to open the User annotations shelf.

 Internet search engine shelf icon: click to open the Internet search shelf.

 Cambridge University Press shelf icon: click to open the Cambridge shelf (where CLD is located).  See Publishers' shelves.


Books

You can think of CLD and your user annotations as books.  You can search them, add notes to them, and arrange them to suit your needs.

See also:

Active book

Book menu

Reordering the books on a shelf


The Active book

The active book is the first book on a shelf to be searched.

When you install CLD, it automatically becomes the active book and will remain the active book until you select another, or until you install another electronic book.

To make CLD the active book:

• Click the CLD icon [image] in the search panel.

CLD becomes the new active book, and its icon appears with a coloured border  (see picture below)

To make any book the active book:

• Click its icon on its shelf.

See also:

Shelves

Search panel

Content window


The Book menu

The Book menu provides a list of options related to each book.

To open the CLD book menu:

• Click the right mouse button on the CLD icon [image] in the Search Panel.

The CLD book menu appears and shows the following functions:  (For CLD, and other books, some of the options are unavailable and appear in grey.)

About (book title)...

displays a brief description of the book.

Remove book

removes the book from the current shelf.

Note:  You can only remove books that are placed on a User defined Shelf.  Books installed on a Publisher's Shelf must be removed by following the directions for uninstalling software programs.  To find out how to do this, see uninstalling CLD for an example of how to uninstall a book).

Hotkey Owner

assigns or changes the hotkey ownership.

Rename

changes the name of the book displayed in the pop-up panel that appears to the right of the book icon when the mouse rests on it.

See also:

Hotkey

Shelves


Recording and testing your own pronunciation

If your computer has a microphone, you can practise pronouncing English words by recording and listening to your own pronunciation.

To record and listen to your own pronunciation:

• Right-click either the American English sound icon [image] or the British English sound icon [image] in a dictionary entry.

A dialog box opens.

• Follow the instructions to record your own pronunciation and compare it to the dictionary's American and British English speakers.

Note: In order to use this function, your computer must have a microphone.


Related words

Every entry in CLD contains an underlined 'Related words' link.  Click it and you can quickly see all the words in CLD that are related to that particular entry. These words may be either synonyms or near-synonyms, or they may be words which form groups of related vocabulary.

Note:  If the Related words link is missing from the entries in CLD, it has been hidden.  See Hiding/displaying related words to find out how to display the Related words link.)

To see a list of related words in an entry:

• DOUBLE-CLICK the underlined 'Related words' link.

A list of related words/subjects pops up.

• DOUBLE-CLICK a word/subject in the pop up box.

The Search Panel expands to show a list of entries which are related to the selected topic (left side of window) and shows the selected topic filter (right side of window).

• DOUBLE-CLICK any word in the entry list to instantly see its definition in the Content Window.

Note: You can also right-click 'Related words' and select 'Related Words' from the pop-up menu to see a list of related topics.

IMPORTANT: You must turn off the Related words filter in the Search Panel to perform searches for words outside the selected topic.  Click the Filters button to shrink the Search Panel and turn off the filters (but retain the settings); OR click the Related words box in the upper filter window to remove the tick and turn off the filter.

For detailed information about the other parts of an entry, see Content window.


Hearing how a word sounds

To hear the British pronunciation of a word:  double-click the red UK sound icon [image] in an entry.

To hear the American pronunciation of a word:  double-click the blue US sound icon [image] in an entry.

You can also hear the pronunciations by right-clicking either sound icon and selecting Play soundfile from the pop up menu.

If sound icons are not visible in an entry, they have been turned off.  See Hiding/displaying parts of the dictionary to find out how to turn them on.

Note:  Unless you are using a network version of CLD, your CD must be in the CD-ROM drive to hear the pronunciations.

For detailed information about the other parts of an entry, see Content window.


Removing hotkey ownership
Removing the hotkey ownership without reassigning it

To remove the hotkey ownership from one book without selecting another book as hotkey owner:

• Click the right mouse button on the current hotkey owner's icon.

• Click the command Hotkey Owner.
The check mark in front of the command disappears, showing that the book is no longer the hotkey owner.

Note:  If hotkey ownership has not been assigned to any book, the selected text will be searched for in the most recently used book.


Looking up a word

Click any underlined term to find out more about it.

Looking up a word in CLD

Looking up a word in CLD while using your integrated word processor


Looking up a word in CLD

Click any underlined term to find out more about it.

To look up a word in CLD:

• Type the word in the text entry box (the white box at the top of the Search Panel).

• Click the FIND button to start the search.

The dictionary entry for the search word is shown in a second window, called the Content Window.

To start another search:

- Click the Search Panel button [image] at the top of the Content Window to go back to the Search Panel, where you can select other entries or start a new search.


Looking up a word in CLD while using your integrated word processor

To look up a word in CLD from an open document in your integrated word processor:

• Use your mouse to select (highlight) the word that you want to look up.

• Click the CLD icon [image] in the toolbar of your word processor,

or

click Tools, then click Cambridge Learner's Dictionary,

or

press Ctrl+9 (This combination of keystrokes is called the Hotkey, and will only work if you have chosen CLD as the hotkey 'owner', or if CLD is your active book.)

CLD opens and starts searching for the selected word.

See also:

Word processor integration

Hotkey

Auto lookup


Hiding / displaying parts of the dictionary

You can decide which parts of the dictionary you want to see.  For example, if you don't want to see phonetic transcriptions, you can hide them.  Or, if you only need to practise American pronunciations, you can hide the British ones.

Click any underlined term to find out more about it.

Hiding/displaying UK sound icons

Hiding/displaying US sound icons

Hiding/displaying phonetics

Hiding/displaying the grammar labels

Hiding/displaying irregular inflections

Hiding/displaying related words


Hiding/displaying the grammar labels
Hiding / displaying grammar labels in CLD

To hide/display the grammar labels:

• Click the properties button [image] in the content window

or

right-click anywhere within the dictionary text, then select Properties...

The Properties dialog box opens.

• Click the box next to 'Display grammar labels' to remove the check and hide the grammar labels (or click the box to replace the check and display the grammar labels).

• Click OK to accept the changes and close the window.

or

click APPLY to accept the changes and leave the window open.

or

click CANCEL to cancel the changes and close the window.

Note: Changes are saved until you change them again.

See also:

Properties


Hiding/displaying irregular inflections
Hiding / displaying irregular inflections in CLD

To hide/display irregular inflections:

• Click the properties button [image] in the content window

or

right-click anywhere within the dictionary text, then select Properties...

The Properties dialog box opens.

• Click the box next to 'Display irregular inflections' to remove the check and hide the irregular inflections (or click the box to replace the check and display the irregular inflections).

• Click OK to accept the changes and close the window.

or

click APPLY to accept the changes and leave the window open.

or

click CANCEL to cancel the changes and close the window.

Note: Changes are saved until you change them again.

See also:

Properties


Hiding/displaying phonetics
Hiding / displaying phonetics in CLD

To hide/display the phonetics:

• Click the properties button [image] in the content window

or

right-click anywhere within the dictionary text, then select Properties...

The Properties dialog box opens.

• Click the box next to 'Display phonetics' to remove the check and hide the phonetics (or click the box to replace the check and display the phonetics).

• Click OK to accept the changes and close the window.

or

click APPLY to accept the changes and leave the window open.

or

click CANCEL to cancel the changes and close the window.

Note: Changes are saved until you change them again.

See also:

Properties


Hiding/displaying related words
Hiding / displaying related words in CLD

To hide/display the related words link:

• Click the properties button [image] in the content window

or

right-click anywhere within the dictionary text, then select Properties...

The Properties dialog box opens.

• Click the box next to 'Display related words' to remove the check and hide the related words link (or click the box to replace the check and display the related words link).

• Click OK to accept the changes and close the window.

or

click APPLY to accept the changes and leave the window open.

or

click CANCEL to cancel the changes and close the window.

Note: Changes are saved until you change them again.

See also:

Properties


Hiding/displaying UK sound icons
Hiding / displaying UK sound icons in CLD

To hide/display the UK sound icons [image]:

• Click the properties button [image] in the content window

or

right-click anywhere within the dictionary text, then select Properties...

The Properties dialog box opens.

• Click the box next to 'Display UK sound icons' to remove the check and hide the UK sound icons (or click the box to replace the check and display the UK sound icons).

• Click OK to accept the changes and close the window.

or

click APPLY to accept the changes and leave the window open.

or

click CANCEL to cancel the changes and close the window.

Note: Changes are saved until you change them again.

See also:

Properties


Hiding/displaying US sound icons
Hiding / displaying US sound icons in CLD

To hide/display the US sound icons [image]:

• Click the properties button [image] in the content window

or

right-click anywhere within the dictionary text, then select Properties...

The Properties dialog box opens.

• Click the box next to 'Display US sound icons' to remove the check and hide the US sound icons (or click the box to replace the check and display the US sound icons).

• Click OK to accept the changes and close the window.

or

click APPLY to accept the changes and leave the window open.

or

click CANCEL to cancel the changes and close the window.

Note: Changes are saved until you change them again.

See also:

Properties


Hiding/displaying word families
Hiding / displaying word families in CLD

To hide/display the word families link:

• Click the properties button [image] in the content window

or

right-click anywhere within the dictionary text, then select Properties...

The Properties dialog box opens.

• Click the box next to 'Display word families' to remove the check and hide the word families link (or click the box to replace the check and display the word families link).

• Click OK to accept the changes and close the window.

or

click APPLY to accept the changes and leave the window open.

or

click CANCEL to cancel the changes and close the window.

Note: Changes are saved until you change them again.

See also:

Properties


Word families

Many entries in CLD contain an underlined 'Word families' link.  Click it and you can quickly see all the words in CLD that form a word family for that particular entry.

A word family consists of all the words that share the same root.

Note:  If the Word families link is missing from the entries in CLD, it has been hidden.  See Hiding/displaying word families to find out how to display the word families link.

To see an entry's word family:

• DOUBLE-CLICK the underlined 'Word families' link,

or right-click the 'Word families' link and select 'Word families' from the pop-up menu.

• DOUBLE-CLICK any word in the word family pop-up box to see its definition in the Content Window.