Brother WP-700D - Manual (Page 30)

Scale
The scale on the screen of the word processor is the electronic equivalent of the
scale on the top of a typewriter, which assists the operator in determining the
position of characters on a page. The numbers indicate the position from the left
edge of the paper. Other symbols remind you of some format settings (example: L
and R indicate the position of the left and right margin). (For a complete list, see
“Symbols” on page 138.)
NOTES:
• By default, the scale is disabled. To display the scale, see the example under
the title “Menu” on page 24.
Text Area
The bulk of the screen is your work area, a window into your document. Although
it only shows a few lines of 79 characters at a time, if your document is longer or
wider, you can move the window up, down, left, and right. The only part you can­
not use is the “dead column” (to the left of column 0), which the word processor
reserves for the “format change” symbol g . Other symbols appear in the text to
remind you of the format functions that you used, but will not be printed. (For a
complete list, see “Symbols” on page 138.)
Text and Scale Cursors
A lighted square, the text cursor, indicates your current position in the text area.
Another cursor, the scale cursor, is an underline that indicates your position rela­
tive to the left of the scale and follows horizontal movement of the text cursor.
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