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Enter Text on Your Brother Machine

  • The characters that are available may differ depending on your country.
  • For touchscreen models, the keyboard layout may differ depending on the function you are setting.

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You may need to enter text into the machine, for example, when you set the network key.
image
  • Press image, image, image or image to select the number, letter or special character you want to select, and press OK. Repeat for each character until the number or name is complete and then press image, image, image or image to select image and then press OK.
  • Press image, image, image or image to select image, and then press OK to cycle between letters, numbers and special characters.
  • Press image, image, image or image to select image, and then press OK to cycle between lowercase and uppercase letters.
  • Inserting spaces
  • To enter a space, press image, image, image or image to select image, and then press OK.
  • Making corrections
  • If you entered an incorrect number or letter and want to change it, press image, image, image or image to select image or image. Press OK several times to move the highlight to the incorrect character. Then, press image, image, image or image to select image, and press OK. Re-enter the correct letter.

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When you are setting certain menu selections, such as the Station ID, you may need to enter text into the machine. Most dial pad buttons have three or four letters printed on the buttons. The buttons for 0, # and image do not have printed letters because they are used for special characters.

Press the appropriate dial pad button the number of times shown in this reference table to access the character you want.

Press Button One Time Two Times Three Times Four Times Five Times Six Times Seven Times Eight Times Nine Times
2 A B C a b c 2 A B
3 D E F d e f 3 D E
4 G H I g h i 4 G H
5 J K L j k l 5 J K
6 M N O m n o 6 M N
7 P Q R S p q r s 7
8 T U V t u v 8 T U
9 W X Y Z w x y z 9
  • To move the cursor to the left or right, press image, image, image or image to select image or image, and then press OK.
  • Inserting spaces
  • To enter a space, press image, image, image or image to select image, and then press OK.
  • Making corrections
  • If you entered an incorrect number or letter and want to change it, press image, image, image or image to select image or image. Press OK several times to move the highlight to the incorrect character. Then, press image, image, image or image to select image, and press OK. Re-enter the correct letter.

Special characters and symbols

Press image, # or 0 repeatedly until you see the special character or symbol you want.

Press image
image
Press #
image
Press 0
image

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When you need to enter text on your Brother machine, a keyboard will appear on the touchscreen.
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  • Press image to cycle between letters, numbers and special characters.
  • Press image to cycle between lowercase and uppercase letters.
  • To move the cursor to the left or right, press image or image.
  • Inserting spaces
  • To enter a space, press [Space]. Or, you can press image to move the cursor.
  • Making corrections
  • If you entered an incorrect character and want to change it, press image or image to highlight the incorrect character. Press image, and then enter the correct character.
  • To insert a character, press image or image to move the cursor to the correct place, and then enter the character.
  • Press image for each character you want to erase, or press and hold image to erase all the characters.
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