How to Enter Text on Your Brother Machine

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When text is required, enter characters on the machine. The characters that are available may differ depending on the operation you perform.

Hold down or repeatedly press or to select a character from this list:

0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ(space)!"#$%&'()*+,-./:;<=>?@[]^_
Press OK when the character or symbol you want is displayed, and then enter the next character.
Press Clear to delete characters entered incorrectly.

When you must enter text on your Brother machine, a keyboard appears on the LCD.
The characters that are available may differ depending on your country.
The keyboard layout may differ depending on the operation you perform.

Press to cycle between letters, numbers and special characters.
Press to cycle between lowercase and uppercase letters.
To move the cursor to the left or right, press or .
Inserting spaces
To enter a space, press [Space].
Making corrections
If you entered a character incorrectly and want to change it, press or to move the cursor to the incorrect character and press . Enter the correct character.
To insert a character, press or to move the cursor to the correct place, and then enter the character.
Press for each character you want to erase, or press and hold to erase all the characters.

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