Entering And Editing Text; Adding A New Line; Adding A New Block; Moving The Cursor - Brother P-touch E550W User Manual

Adding a New Line

To end the current line of text and start a new line, press the Enter key. A return mark
appears at the end of the line and the cursor moves to the start of the new line.
Maximum number of lines
- 24 mm tape: 7 lines
- 18 mm tape: 5 lines
- 12 mm tape: 3 lines
- 9 mm and 6 mm tape: 2 lines
- 3.5 mm tape: 1 line

Adding a New Block

When GENERAL is selected, you can create up to 99 new blocks. To create a new block of
text/lines to the right of your current text, press the Shift key and then press the Enter key.
The cursor moves to the start of the new block. In other labelling application types, you can
set the number of blocks when pressing a label application key. Not all labelling application
types may support this function.

Moving the Cursor

• Press the , ,
• To move the cursor to the beginning or end of the current line, press the Shift key and then
press the or key.
• To move the cursor to the beginning of the previous or next block, press the Shift key and
then press the or

Inserting Text

To insert additional text into an existing line of text, move the cursor to the character at the
right of the position where you want to start inserting text, and then enter the additional text.
The new text is inserted to the left of the cursor.

Deleting Text

 Deleting one character at a time
To delete a character from an existing line of text, move the cursor to the character at the
right of the position where you want to start deleting text, and then press the BS (backspace)
key. The character to the left of the cursor is deleted each time the BS (backspace) key is
pressed.
If you press and hold the BS (backspace) key, the characters left of the cursor are deleted.

Entering and Editing Text

, or key to move the cursor one space or line.
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