Brother International WP230B Owners Manual - English - Page 322

COLUMN With the Addressbook application, a vertical grouping of information that represents one category, such as NAME or ADDRESS. With the Spreadsheet application, a vertical area on the grid which is one cell wide. CONVERSION CORRECTION MEMORY CURSOR DAISY WHEEL Changing computer data into a form that can be used by a different computer system or program to convert a Word Processing file into an ASCII file and vice versa as well as a Spreadsheet file or a part of a Spreadsheet file into a Word Processing file. A special memory used by the TW application to temporarily store the text of the current line. Since the typewriter knows the contents of the current line as well as their position on the paper, corrections can be carried out without retyping the wrong character. The correction memory is cleared as soon as the carriage 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 processor. DEAD KEY DECIMAL TAB DIRECT NUMBER DISK DRIVE DISKETTE DOUBLE COLUMNS 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 languages 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. Spreadsheet data, consisting of digits and possibly a decimal point that can be used in calculations. The mechanism that writes data to and reads data from the diskette. A thin, magnetic-coated diskette on which computer data can be stored. Allows you to print your document PRINTING in two columns. On the screen, the text is displayed continuously in one column. 310 Glossary