is an instruction to the peripheral to pause for a re-thread on a single-needle machine, or to change to a different needle on a multi-needle machine. it also changes the color in the View Window to the next color in the color palette. This function also inserts a color change command after the currently highlighted dataset in the stitch list. You can find this function in three locations: the toolbar button, under the Insert Menu, or by right clicking in the View window. The keyboard shortcut for this is F6.