Setting Up your User Area in the Vantage Lite.

About Setting Up your Device

Your ability to use your device for maximum communication will depend in part on setting it up so that it suits your individual needs. You might want to try different combinations of options before you settle on the ones that you like best.

 

You will select set-up options from various menus in the Toolbox.

 

Select a User Area

When you first received your Vantage Lite and turned it on, you may have selected a User Area from the SETUP WIZARD. You may continue to use this Area. You can also select different Areas using the menu described below.

Your device has six different User Areas that contain pre-stored vocabulary.  If more than one person is using the device, each person can have his or her own area.  A single user can load different overlays into the Areas and use them in specific situations.

You select a User Area by opening the USER AREA MENU  This is the user area key in the toolbox. in the Toolbox.  

 This shows the User Area Menu.

The text display area tells you which Area and overlay you are currently using.

This shows the Switch User Area option in the Vantage Lite.

 Select the Switch User Area option. 

This shows the 6 different user areas in the Vantage Lite.

 

Each overlay is stored in its own User Area. The User Area for each overlay is shown on its key.  When the device has switched to the Area you select, it will return you to the first page of the USER AREA MENU.

Select the pre-stored overlay you want to use.

The Spelling Keyboard option defines your Spelling page.  QWERTY is the default. This keyboard is set up like a computer keyboard. If you select GO TO SPELL in the Toolbox, you will see the default QWERTY spelling page.  If you select the ABC key on your Unity overlay, you will see a spelling page that has been designed to go with the overlay you are using.

This shows the Spelling Keyboard options

If you select User Defined in the menu, you will see the Pages menu. Select the spelling page you want. If you then select GO TO SPELL in the Toolbox, you will see the spelling page you selected.  If you select the ABC key on your Unity overlay, you will see the spelling page that was created to go with the particular overlay you are using.

 

Other USER AREA MENU Options

Use the Rename User Area to give your Area a name, if you want to.

You can Copy a User Area and place it in another Area. Both Areas would have the same overlay but each Area could have its own access method.  One Area might be set up for school situations and another for when the user is at home. 

 

Important Note!   

Replace User Area is a new option.  (It replaces the old Choose Overlay menu.) 

If you want to replace the overlay you have been using with a different overlay in the same User Area, you must first select the Area/overlay you are currently using.  You will see the Replace with menu:

 Here are the overlay options under the Replace User Area feature.

 

Each option offers you a number of different overlays. If you select Unity Programs for instance, you will see a list of all the Unity overlays.  Select the overlay you want to use. When you select the overlay you want to change to you will see this warning:

This shows the message you will receive when loading a new overlay.

Any custom vocabulary (vocabulary that was not pre-stored at the factory) that you have stored on your current overlay will be lost when the new overlay is installed.

If you want to erase your current overlay without saving any custom vocabulary, select YES.  If you want to save the vocabulary, select NO and then perform an MTI before you change to a different overlay. (See the Using the Transfer Memory Menu chapter for information about making memory transfers.)

Now type in the word REPLACE on your spelling keyboard to confirm you want to load the overlay listed on the text bar at the top of the screen.  Once loaded, select OK to exit.