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menu (2g). Each subcategory in the personal menu 
has 16 positions to save your own stitches or 
sequences. Scroll through the stitches in the selected 
subcategory using the scroll arrows. Select a stitch 
by touching it.

icon (6), and then touch the stitch. The positon will 
be emptied. To abort the deletion before selecting a 
stitch, deselect the delete icon.
A long touch of the delete icon (6) will empty the 
whole subcategory selected....

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Your machine has four tabs with designs: Personal 
designs, machine designs, mini designs and quilt 
designs. Read more about the different design tabs 
in chapter 8.
Touch a tab to display the contents. Select an 
embroidery design by touching it. Use the scroll bar 
to browse through additional designs.
When a design is selected, the machine will 
automatically switch to embroidery mode and the 
design will be loaded into Embroidery edit....

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To embroider your design, change from 
Embroidery edit to Embroidery stitch-out by 
touching the Embroidery stitch-out icon on the 
task bar.
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that are useful when embroidering. 
Read more about Embroidery stitch-out in  
chapter 9. 

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In the Settings menu, you can change default 
settings and make manual adjustments to the 
machine settings (A), screen settings (B) and sound 
settings (C). 
Touch the icons to activate a function or open a list 
of choices. The settings are saved even after turning 
off the machine with one exception: changes made 
to Options for feed dogs will not be saved when the 
machine is switched off. The setting will revert back 
to the default which...

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Select this function when using a straight stitch 
presser foot to lock the needle in center position for 
all stitches, preventing damage to the needle and/or 
presser foot.
When turning on the machine with this setting 
activated and for every stitch selection that is not 
a straight stitch, a pop-up informs you that it is set 
to straight stitch. Deselect stitch width safety to go 
back to normal sewing.
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Presser foot pressure
Presser foot height 
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be increased or decreased for most stitches or 
embroideries, you can change the general setting 
for embroidering and/or sewing. You may need to 
adjust the thread tension controls if you regularly 
sew or embroider on special fabric or use specialty 
threads.
Touch Thread tension compensation. Adjust the 
slider bars to generally...

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Lock screen
If needed, you can easily lock the screen while 
sewing or embroidering.
When activated, the screen is locked everytime it is 
inactive for ten seconds. The screen will be locked 
until you unlock it by touching OK.
Screen saver
When activated, the creative™ 4.5 start up screen 
will be displayed as a screen saver ten minutes after 
the last touch. Touch the screen or press any button 
to exit the screen saver.
Calibrate
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Use the info system to easily get help topics and 
information. The Info menu is a built-in shortened 
version of the Owner’s manual. 
When you touch the info menu icon on the task bar, 
you have four options to select from - category (A), 
index (B), personal info (C) and text (D).
Browse through the topics using your stylus. 
The left arrow at the top of the screen opens the 
previous page. The right arrow takes you back to 
the current page....

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1. Sewing recommendations
2. Machine settings
3.  Stitch selection area
4.  Arrows for scrolling through stitch 
categories
5.  Selected stitch number
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