Part4DeletingandInsertingCharacters

This section describes everything you need to know about deleting and editing characters you have already input.

Moving the Cursor

Use the cursor keys to move the cursor around the display and position it for deleting and editing characters.

To move the cursor

∙Press uto move the cursor one line up and ito move it one line down.

∙Press tto move the cursor to the left, and yto move the cursor to the right.

∙Press SHIFT and then y to move the cursor to the beginning of the next block to the right.

(See page E-25 for details about blocks).

∙Press SHIFT and then t to move the cursor the beginning of the current block. If the cursor is already at the beginning of a block SHIFT tmoves it to the beginning of the next block to the left.

∙Press FUNCTION and then tto make the cursor jump to the beginning (far left) of the current line.

∙Press FUNCTION and then yto make the cursor jump to the end (far right) of the current line.

∙Press FUNCTION and then uto make the cursor jump to the first character of the text.

∙Press FUNCTION and then ito make the cursor jump to the end of the text.

∙Holding down the tor ycursor key moves the cursor at high speed.

Deleting Individual Characters

You can delete individual characters with either the BS key or the DEL key. The only difference between the operation of these two keys is the location of the cursor.

To delete characters using the BS key

Example: To change the word “commmputer” to “computer”.

1.Use tand yto move the cursor under “p”.

2.Press BS twice to delete the two m’s to the left of the cursor, shifting “puter” to the left as you do.

To delete characters using the DEL key

Example: To change the word “commmputer” to “computer”.

1.Use tand yto move the cursor under the first (far left) “m”.

2.Press DEL twice to delete the two m’s at the cursor’s position, shifting “mputer” to the left as you do.

Clearing the Display

The label printer gives you a choice of clearing the entire display or only a specific block of text.

To clear all text

1.Press FUNCTION and then BS (CLS).

2.Use uand ito highlight “ALL” (if it isn’t already highlighted).

3.Press SET.

4.Press SET to clear all of the text on the display or ESC to abort without clearing anything.

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