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How To's

 * Symbolate**

1. Make a Symbolate box 2. Cut & paste text from another source 3. The text will fill the box, and it will add the symbols. 4. If you select a word with the Symbolate tool (just click the word once), then push F1 or F2 it will rotate through the different symbols including a blank one.


 * How do I turn off the auditory clicking cue when scanning?**

The "Button Scan" and "Button Click" sounds can be muted by doing the following in Design Mode:

- Go to Dynamic Boards menu. - Click on "Speaker Volumes". - The top choice should be set to the default setting of "No Separation. Use settings below." - Adjust the "Button Scan" sounds down to "Mute" and click OK.

That will shut off the clicks when you are waving the mouse over buttons.

If you want the activation click sounds off as well, you will have to mute the "Button Click" as well.


 * Playing Movies or PowerPoints**

To play movies in Boardmaker Plus or SDPRO, you have to convert the youtube video to an AVI. Once you do that, all you have to do is double click on the action button so the back menu pulls up. Look for insert sound or movie, find your converted movie file, and you are good to go.

Choose 'cool stuff' on the button. If you are launching a PowerPoint, hold the shift & click on PowerPoint, then the file....it will then open your PowerPoint Show OR hold the ctrl and click and you can go to YouTube and play the video.


 * Data Logging / Usage Recording**

You could see what boards and buttons are being used by enabling the Usage Count feature in BM. It's under the Dynamic Boards menu->Usage Counts. If you check off Enable Usage Counts and Show Usage Counts, it will show you how many times a button has been used whenever you go into Design Mode.

If you are in poweruser mode, you could also use the Write Text to File action (under Cool Stuff), in combination with the system variables for date and time, to generate a log of when different boards and buttons are accessed. Write Text to File doesn't automatically write anything, you have to specify what you want it to write. If you want it to be the contents of the Message Display, you would have to put in {svdisplaytext}, this is the system variable that holds whatever is in the Message Display (up to 99 characters, I believe). I will often keep track of what button is pressed by just putting in the date and time and then button label, using system variables like this: {svdate} {svtime} {svbuttontext}. If you just wanted to know that someone opened a board, you could just type in the name of the board by hand down in the Text section of the Write Text to File window. Make sure to insert a return into the Text field, otherwise everything will run together on one line.

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