1. What is the WinCE MBA's Assistant®
Series?
LP Laser Publishing Group's Windows CE MBA's Assistant
is a series of bilingual applications that have been
designed to help you practice and improve your communication
skills in the business terminology of a foreign language
and therefore prepare you for a wide range of business
settings. CE MBA's Assistant is a business traveler's
companion, created especially for business people,
researchers and students who are learning about or
doing business internationally.
Entries are selected from every field: Management,
Law, Accounting, Computer, Trade Show, Business Negotiation,
Government and more. It contains over 4,000 business
terms and phrases, plus examples of basic business
conversation. With the convenience of a HPC or HPC
Pro powered by Windows CE, the bi-directional MBA's
Assistant application acts as a personal interpreter
and will be a must-have for anyone involved in international
business.
With the help of a Windows CE device, communicating
in a foreign country can be as easy as selecting what
you want to say and letting the CE MBA's Assistant
translate it into the target language in grammatically
correct form. Best of all, the CE MBA's Assistant
application is bi-directional. This allows someone
who does not speak English to convey their ideas to
you in easy- to-understand English.
MBA's Assistant is also equipped with functions that
let you build and personalize your own multi-lingual
business database. Whether you travel on business,
to do research on international business, or just
for fun, your working vocabulary will change as you
learn new words everyday. Whenever you learn a new
term, just enter it into your MBA's Assistant's database.
This will help you to learn and remember the words
that are most critical for your business needs. You
can become more confident, more fluent and more accurate
in your language skills and therefore move closer
to reaching your career objectives.
WinCE Traveler's Companion supports HPC, HPC Pro,
PPC
2. New Features of WinCE MBA's
Assistant® Series
- Bi-directional "Interpreter" lets you select the languages to be translated. Entries are selected from every field:
- Industries and Professions
- Company Departments
- Basic Business Contact Skills
- Business Travel
- Face to Face Conversation
- Business Presentations
- Meetings and Trade Fairs
- Projects and Performance
- Business Negotiations
- Business Conversations
- Topics are organized to meet the needs of business traveler's "on the go" . You simply pick a topic and select the appropriate question or answer to "talk" business. MBA's Assistant is a truly "on the go" application.
- Bi-directional Soft Keyboard let you input in the language you select. Soft Keyboard also works together with the hard keyboard. This gives you multiple input options for inputting text.
- Bi-directional Search function lets you search in either the source or target language.
- Bi-directional "Add New" function allows you to build your personal business vocabulary in either the source or target language.
- Supporting Unicode text format, MBA's Assistant is compatible with WinCE UniWriter or MS Pocket Office, MS Office 2000. Traveler can copy and paste the translation into UniWriter to edit or send the document anywhere in the world without worrying about the computer OS compatibility problems.
- MBA's Assistant Pro version is a text-to-talk enabled application.
3. Getting Started
- Install CE MBA's Assistant into your CE unit.
- To start the application from the Start menu, click the MBA's Assistant icon in the Programs folder.
- After starting the application, choose a language from the Language options selection.
- Select a topic from the topics list category.
- Pick a question or answer from the "Q and A" list.
- To search a question or answer, see the "How to" Section.
- To build your own database, see the "How to" Section.
- To input text, see the "How to" Section.
- To exit the application, click Exit button.
4. WinCE MBA's Assistant® "How To"
- Using Soft Keyboard
- After starting the application, choose a language from the Language options selection.
- Click the Soft Keyboard Button to show the Soft Keyboard.
- To move the Soft Keyboard to a certain position, click the soft KB title bar, hold down the left mouse button, then drag and drop to that position.
- To input text into the Search Text Box, select the Search Text Box first, then use the soft keyboard or hard keyboard to type in the text.
- Soft Keyboard works together with the hard keyboard after activating the application. You may use either of them to input data.
- To change the Soft Keyboard layout, choose a language from the Language Options selection and activate the Soft Keyboard.
- To close Soft Keyboard, click the Close button on the Soft Keyboard title bar. Note: Even if you close Soft Keyboard, the hard keyboard is still activated until the application is closed. Changing the language selection changes the hard keyboard layout.
- Searching the "Q and A"
- After starting the application, choose a language from the Language Options selection.
- Input text into the Search Text Box. See "Using the Soft Keyboard."
- Click the Search Button.
- To search for text from a different language, choose the language first, then input text by using either the Soft Keyboard or hard keyboard.
- Copying Translations
- After starting the application, choose a language from the Language Options selection.
- Repeat the steps provided in the "Getting Started" and "Searching the 'Q and A'" sections to pick a question or answer.
- Click the Copy button to copy the text into the clipboard.
- Activate the CE UniWriter or one of the MS Pocket applications and paste the text. The text is now editable.
- The Copy function only works on the default language, which means you can only copy the text of the language you have selected in step 1.
- Building your own Database
Use "Add New", "Modify", and "Delete" functions from your MBA's Assistant application to build your personal dictionary.
- Start the application.
- To add new words into your personal dictionary, click the "Add New" button. Use the Soft Keyboard or hard keyboard to input data into the proper language text field. After finishing data input, click the "Update" button.
- To modify existing new words, select the word from the word list of the "Added New Words" topic. To edit the data in each text field, click the 'Modify" button.
- To delete the existing new word, select the word from the word list of the "Added New Words" topic, then click the "Delete" button.
Note: "Add New", "Modify", and "Delete" functions
are limited to your personal database, i.e. within
the "Added New Word" topic.
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