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Creating and Using Notebooks
When you have to create large amounts of text, use an individual Notebook.
Many people who have learned to communicate well using a communication aid are often asked
to give speeches and presentations. Notebooks are ideal for storing speeches. You can store the
Tool SPEAK NOTEBOOK to speak a specific Notebook.
Notebooks are unique to a User Area. A person in Area 1 cannot access Notebooks in Area 2,
for example. Notebooks can also be locked. This means that a person can look at a Notebook
but cannot change anything or create any new text in it.
Notebooks are a different color. When you are in a Notebook, the display area where you see
text defaults to a pale yellow background instead of the normal white background. This is to
remind you that you are in a Notebook.
See the TRANSFER MEMORY MENU chapter for information on saving Notebooks to a
computer or transferring them from a computer to your device.
The Notebook Workspace
When you are working in a Notebook and you fill the display screen with text, notice that the top
line of text disappears from the screen so you can see the bottom line of text. This is called,
"scrolling."
Any text that scrolls off the display goes into the Notebook workspace. The workspace will keep
all of your text until it is full. Then it won't allow you to add any more text to that Notebook.
The Notebook workspace can hold approximately 30,000 text characters. If you activate SAVE
NOTEBOOK or shut your device Off, the Notebook will be saved.
Notebooks can take up a lot of memory. If you find you are running out of memory, look at
your Notebooks and see of there are any you can delete.
Editing or Erasing the Contents of the Notebook Workspace
You can edit or erase the Notebook workspace by editing or erasing the Notebook's contents.
To retrieve text that has scrolled into the workspace, use the arrow keys to move the cursor up on
the display. Text that is in the workspace will begin to appear on your display. When you see the
text that you want to edit, stop moving into the workspace and begin editing by using the Edit
Menu and Edit Mode keys. (See page
187 for more information on the editing tools.)
CLEAR DISPLAY does not work in a Notebook.
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