Brother SC-2000 manual Merge database fields into the selected layout

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2. Merge database fields into the selected layout.

After you have created all fields and joined fields that you will want to use in your layout, you can merge (put) the desired fields into the layout.

1.In the [Tool] menu, click the [Merge into Layout] command to display the Merge Fields dialog box.

●If more than one layout is open, the Select Layout dialog box is displayed first. In the Select Layout dialog box, click the layout that you wish to merge (put) the fields into, then click

to display the Merge Fields dialog box.

●A database can only be linked with one layout. If a layout which is already linked to a database is selected, an error message is displayed.

2.In the "Database Fields That Can Be Merged:" list box in the Merge Fields dialog box, click the field that you wish to merge into the layout.

●To select more than one field, hold down the keyboard's Ctrl key while clicking all of the fields that you wish to merge. To select a range of fields, click the first field in the range, and then hold down the keyboard's shift key while clicking the last field in the range of fields that you wish to select.

●For this example, click the joined field "[First Name] [Last Name]", and then hold down the shift key before clicking the Address field.

3.In the "Object Type:" box, pull down the list of object formats and select the format of the

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