Editing Buttons

  • Published on Oct 31, 2025
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  1. To open Editor, do either of the following:

    • Go to Menu > Toolbox > Vocabulary > Editor. Once you are looking at the button you want to edit, select Edit. The “Edit” button changes color. Select the button you want to modify.

    • Select Menu > Editor. Once you are looking at the button you want to edit, select Edit. The “Edit” button changes color. Select the button you want to modify.

  2. Using either method, the Edit Button window will open.

    The Edit Button window shows the Message tab selected; a button preview; Message and Label fields with keyboard icons; tabs on the left; suggested symbols to the right of the tabs; a camera button; and a Clear Button.

    Note: Do not select Clear Button unless you intend to remove the message, label, symbol, actions, colors, and navigation from the button.

  3. Select tabs to make the changes you want.

    Message: Change a Button Message and Button Label. When you enter message or label text, the software will suggest symbols you might want to use for the button.

    Colors: Change the color of a button or its background, border, symbol background, label background, or font color.

    Symbol: Change a button symbol, import symbols, or take a photo with the device camera.

    Navigation: Add a navigation action to a button.

    Actions: Add an action to a button.

    Settings: Set whether or not to display and/or speak the text on a button; to always show button label; to enter an alternate pronunciation or prompt for the button.

  4. When you finish making changes, select Finished and then select Save.

    Note: If you select Finished before you make all the changes you want, simply select the button again and continue making changes.

Edit an Empty Button

When a button has no content and the Editor is turned on, buttons that have no content appear with a black and white checkerboard pattern.

Example of a vocabulary page with empty buttons represented by a black and white checkerboard pattern.

If you select one of these empty buttons when Edit is highlighted in blue, you can add content to the button and make other changes.

If you select one of these empty buttons when Edit is not highlighted in blue, the Editor - Empty button window will open.

  • Select Edit this button to open the Edit Button window and add content and make other changes.

  • Select Create a new link to link the button to another page.

  • Select Cancel to make no changes to the button.