What are Notebooks and How do I Use Them?
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About 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 SPEAK NOTEBOOK tool 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 and Clear Display will not work.
In most Unity Software programs, there is a preprogrammed Activity Row for use with Notebooks. Here are the basic commands from the activity row found in Unity 45 Sequenced.
Row 1
Row 2
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.
Note: 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 168 for more information on the editing tools.)
Important Note: CLEAR DISPLAY does not work in a Notebook.
New Notebooks
A new Notebook is a Notebook that has never been used before. It has no text and no title.
To Open a New Notebook
1. In the Toolbox, open the NOTEBOOK MENU 
2. Activate New Notebook.
3. Spell a name for your new Notebook. Activate OK.
Notice that the display screen is now a different color. This tells you that you are in a Notebook. You can change the color in the FEEDBACK MENU.
You can change the color of the Notebook background and/or the notebook text. Select the Notebook Text Color option. Within the option you can choose to change the text color and the display area color.
You can Save a Notebook anytime it is open. Just go to the Toolbox and open the NOTEBOOK MENU. Then activate the Save Notebook option. When the Notebook has been saved, your device returns you to your open Notebook.
Close a Notebook: Save a Notebook
When you have finished with a Notebook, you close it by activating the Close Notebook option in the NOTEBOOK MENU. If you have not saved your Notebook or have made changes to it without saving them, your device will ask you if you want to save the Notebook before closing. Answer YES to save it or NO to close it without saving any new text you may have entered.
When you close your Notebook, the display area goes from yellow to white. This reminds you that you are no longer using your Notebook.
Note: To use a Notebook again after you have closed it, you must re-open it using the Open Notebook option in the NOTEBOOK MENU.
When you are using a Notebook, you will want to save your work regularly. The Save Notebook option allows you to save the Notebook. You can activate Save Notebook any time a Notebook is open.
To Save an Open Notebook
1. Go to the Toolbox.
2. Open the NOTEBOOK MENU.
3. Activate Save Notebook. Your device will save the Notebook and return you to the open Notebook.
Open or Delete a Notebook
Every time you save a Notebook, your device keeps a record of it. If you want to open a particular Notebook, use the Open Notebook option in the NOTEBOOK MENU.
To Open a Notebook
1. Go to the Toolbox.
2. Open the NOTEBOOK MENU.
3. Activate Open Notebook.
4. You see a list of all your Notebooks. Activate the one you want to use.
Note: Notebooks take up a lot of memory space. Deleting Notebooks that you no longer need helps to free up memory and keep your Notebook list manageable.
To Delete a Notebook
1. Go to the Toolbox.
2. Open the NOTEBOOK MENU.
3. Activate Delete Notebook.
4. You see a list of all your Notebooks. Select the one you want to delete. Activate OK.
5. You see a reminder that you are going to delete a Notebook. If you want to continue, activate YES. If you decide not to delete the Notebook, activate NO.
6. If you answered YES, the Notebook is automatically deleted and will no longer be an option in the Open Notebook list.
You may decide to rename a Notebook at some time. Perhaps it contains a format you like or information that you can re-use for another project. The Rename Notebook option allows you to do this.
To Rename a Notebook
1. Go to the Toolbox.
2. Open the NOTEBOOK MENU.
3. Activate Rename Notebook.
4. You see a list of your Notebooks. Activate the one you want to rename.
5. Delete the old name and type in the new name. Select OK.
6. The Notebook is now renamed.