Brother WP-700D - Manual (Page 162)

Glossary
ABBREVIATED PHRASE
ACCELERATOR
BACKUP
BLOCK OPERATIONS
BOLDFACE
CENTERING
CORRECTION MEMORY
CURSOR
DAISY WHEEL
DEAD KEY
DECIMAL TAB
To increase your typing speed, you can store frequently
used strings in a special abbreviated phrase file and
recall any string by merely typing its abbreviation (which
has been stored along with the string).
Instead of selecting a function from a menu with @ or
Q and then pressing iiETURNl to activate the function
or to display a submenu, press the letter keys that
appear in bold on the menu. This character is called an
accelerator.
A copy of all the data on a diskette that you keep in case
your original data is damaged.
The block operations on this word processor allow for
on-screen cutting & pasting tasks. They include block
copy, move and delete. You may even copy a block of
the document into a temporary file.
Boldface characters are thicker than normal characters.
A layout function that allows you to automatically center
a line between margins or tabs.
A special memory used by the word processor to tem­
porarily store the text of the current line in the TW mode.
Since the word processor knows the contents of the cur­
rent line as well as their position on the paper, correc­
tions can be carried out without retyping the wrong
character. The correction memory is cleared as soon as
the carrier advances to the next line.
1) A blinking box used to select a position on the screen;
2) a block-shaped illuminated area used to select menu
items by highlighting the item in reverse image.
A removable plastic wheel with spokes extending out
from the center that is used for printing on this word pro­
cessor.
A key that produces a character but does not move the
cursor or carrier one position to the right. Dead keys are
usually used to type the accent marks used in such lan­
guages as French, German, and Spanish.
A special tab used to neatly align a column of numbers
the same way you align them when carrying out a sum
manually.
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