Brother International BES Lettering INSTRUCTION MANUAL - English - Page 56

To insert thread color changes within a text segment

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54 Pacesetter BES Lettering Instruction Manual Color2, etc.) and can then be assigned its own thread color from the Color Palette. To insert thread color changes within a text segment: 1 Select the text segment. 2 In the Text field of the Text Properties panel, type a tilde (~) between letters in each position that you want a color change to occur. 3 Click Apply. You see the colors change for all text sub segments after the first one, which retains the original color. The text segment, as it appears initially, after being divided into subsegments. The first subsegment retains the original color, and the subsequent ones are assigned arbitrary "placeholder" colors (until you chose your own). 4 To apply your choice of colors to the sub-segments, move the mouse pointer to the desired color in the Color Palette and left-click. A context menu appears, listing the text sub-segment color identifiers in the order they appear in your text.

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54
Pacesetter BES Lettering
Instruction Manual
Color2, etc.) and can then be assigned its own thread color from
the Color Palette.
To insert thread color changes within a text segment:
1
Select the text segment.
2
In the
Text
field of the Text Properties panel, type a tilde (~)
between letters in each position that you want a color
change to occur.
3
Click Apply.
You see the colors change for all text sub segments after the
first one, which retains the original color.
The text segment, as it appears initially, after being divided into subseg-
ments. The first subsegment retains the original color, and the subsequent
ones are assigned arbitrary “placeholder” colors (until you chose your own).
4
To apply your choice of colors to the sub-segments, move the
mouse pointer to the desired color in the Color Palette and
left-click.
A context menu appears, listing the text sub-segment color
identifiers in the order they appear in your text.