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Type

Type Mode

In Type Mode, the typing scale appears on the display and the blinking

cursor moves along it as you type characters on paper.

The Display

Type Mode is activated by sliding the Mode Selector to Type, if

necessary. The typing scale is illustrated below.

Status Line — Gives current settings, keyboard status, and cursor

position.

Cursor — A rectangle that shows the location of the print hammer.

Position Indicator — Indicates your current print hammer position.

Entering Text

When entering text, it is useful to know how to use the cursors and Auto

Return.

Cursor Moves

Code + or Back Space — Moves typing position to the left one

character at a time.

Code + or Spacebar — Moves typing position to the right one

character at a time.

Code + — Moves typing position down equal to line setting (i.e., if you

are double spacing text, key moves typing position down two lines.)

Code + — Moves typing position up equal to your line setting (i.e., if

you are single spacing text, key moves typing position up one line.)

NOTE: The / are repeating keys. If they are held down, the

paper will continue to move up or down.

Status Line

Position Indicator

Cursor

Summary of content (10 pages)

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Type Mode In Type Mode, the typing scale appears on the display and the blinking cursor moves along it as you type characters on paper. Type The Display Type Mode is activated by sliding the Mode Selector to Type, if necessary. The typing scale is illustrated below. Position Indicator Status Line End of Page Pitch OFF 10 Line 1 Impression M Keyboard I 12 Cursor Status Line — Gives current settings, keyboard status, and cursor position.
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Auto Return Code + ! ^ 1 You can program the Memory Typewriter to automatically return at the end of each line. When a space or hyphen is typed in the “warning zone,” which begins five spaces before the right margin, the carrier automatically returns to the next line. For lengthy words falling at the end of the line, simply type a hyphen as you normally would and the carrier returns automatically. To activate Auto Return: 1. Press Code + Return (1).
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Text Enhancements Bold Print 1. Code + B Bold Press Code + Bold (B). A beep is heard, and the display prompts: Bold Print ON. 2. Type text. 3. To turn off bold print, press Code + Bold (B). No beep is heard, and the display prompts: Type Text Code Bold Print OFF. + B Bold NOTE: If correcting bold text within correction memory with Bold Print OFF, bold text will be corrected, but replacement text will not be bolded unless Bold Print is reactivated.
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Position Print Hammer Manual Underscore You can also manually underscore text already typed. Shift Paper In + Auto Center Code + @ ç 1. Position the print hammer under the first character of the text to be underscored. 2. Press Shift + -/_ once to underscore each character. Centering Text 1. 2 Press Code + Auto Center (2). The carrier moves to the center of the margins. A beep is heard, and the display prompts: Auto Center @ and indicates the print hammer position. Type Text 2.
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Indented Paragraph To indent paragraphs, set “temporary left margins,” so text is automatically indented after carriage returns The example below shows a paragraph which has been indented five spaces. National Accounting Seminar Marvelous Paper Products will participate in the National Accounting Seminar. We will focus on our new computerized accounting program.
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Changing Settings You can change the end of page setting, line spacing, impression control, pitch and number of lines displayed in Type Mode. New settings will replace any existing settings. (See “Page Layout.”) NOTE: If you change pitch, remember to change the printwheel. Corrections The typewriter can automatically correct all characters in a three line correction memory buffer. You can easily correct characters not in the buffer by performing an extra step (see “Off-Line Correction”).
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LineEraser ® Using the LineEraser feature, you can easily remove an entire line of text located in correction memory. 1. Position the print hammer on any character in the line. 2. Press Code + LineEraser (WordEraser). No beep is heard. Correction begins immediately from the last character typed on the line up to the first character typed on the line. NOTE: You can press Code + Stop (S) to stop LineEraser. Erasing will stop immediately. The print hammer remains on the last character corrected. 3.
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Position Print Hammer Half Space Code + % ¿ 5 Auto Half Space Use this feature to insert one additional character into a word or delete one or more character(s) from a word. 1. Position print hammer to any character in the incorrect word. 2. Press Code + Half Space (5) to activate Auto Half Space. The word is automatically erased. Print hammer locates on the center of the space. 3. Type the desired word. (Characters appear on the display.) Use Correct to correct errors on the display. 4.
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Forward Correction To correct several characters or word(s) not in the correction memory buffer. 1. 2. Position the print hammer to the first character in the series to be corrected using Code + , Code + , Code + , Code + , Spacebar, Return, and Back Space. Do not use the platen knob to position the print hammer. Press Code + Correct twice. Two beeps are heard, and the display prompts: Forward Correct.
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