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Front-Panel Key Reference
ESC
ESC
Use the escape key to exit any function without modifying current 
parameters. Pressing the 
ESC key will:
• Clear any numeric entry that you have begun to enter and cancels 
the active function (see the section on display annotation, active 
function area, and other display features in the Getting Started 
Guide for your instrument).
• Clear any title entry that you have begun to enter and cause the title 
to revert to the previous name.
• Clear input or output overloads.
• Clear error messages from the status line along the bottom of the 
display.
• Clear peak threshold from the display (turn it off) if the peak 
threshold line is on.
• Cancels a print, if one is in progress.