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Chapter 4 Using Your Motion M1200 and M1300 Tablet PCs
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To free work space and enlarge your writing area, you can optimize your
Tablet PC display window in these ways:
• To move the Tablet PC Input Panel anywhere — From Tools, uncheck Dock.
This lets you move the input panel anywhere on the display.
• To hide the Input Panel — Select the
(up arrow) on the Input Panel
• To enlarge the Preview window — From
Tools, tap Options, and then tap Two lines to give you an extra line to write on.
• To move the taskbar anywhere on the display — From Windows
Control Panel, tap Taskbar and Start Menu (Classic View) or doubleclick Appearance and themes (Category View) and then tap Taskbar and Start Menu. Uncheck the box beside Lock the taskbar. Tap OK and close Control Panel. Now place your pen inside the Taskbar and drag it to the sides or top of the display.
• To change the amount of delay to transfer writing, or the thickness of the ink — From Tools, select Options.
NOTE: For more information about Tablet PC Input Panel functions, see the Help menu under Tools on the Tablet PC Input Panel window.
The Tablet PC Input Panel keyboard and writing areas are key Tablet PC features you will use constantly to:
• Enter passwords
• Hand write or type entries in Journal documents
• Write or type E-mail messages
• Perform other writing tasks
1. Open the Tablet PC Input Panel by tapping the icon, shown here.
2. With another application active, such as a password window, a Journal document, or Outlook, write or type on the Input Panel window.
3. By default, after a short delay, your handwriting will be automatically sent to the active program.
Here are some hints about the Tablet PC Input Panel:
• Disappearing text — If you don’t have an active application or the
Input Panel Preview window open, your writing or typing will disappear from the display in a few seconds. Open an application
(such as Microsoft Word) or the Preview window to accept your text.
• Tablet PCs without Microsoft Office Pen Extensions installed— If you you have Microsoft Office installed but not Pen Extensions, these programs (Microsoft Word, Outlook, and Excel) will not accept ink.
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Pen Extensions are included with associated Motion software orders or are available free on the Microsoft website.
• However, other programs will accept text, including Journal,
Wordpad, and Notepad.
• Sending drawings — While probably not the best application for drawings, you can send them from the Input Panel to some applications (such as Wordpad or Microsoft Word). However, they don’t transfer to the Text Preview window. If you draw from the Input
Panel with the Text Preview window open, Windows XP tries to interpret the drawing as text, with unpredictable results.
• Entering passwords — For security and accuracy, we recommend you use the keyboard on the Input Panel instead of writing this confidential information where it is clearly visible and where handwriting recognition will try to make it into words.
Input Panel Text Preview Window
The Tablet PC Input Panel has a Text Preview window that lets you see a text transcription of what you have written before you send it to an active application:
“Sending as Ink” (Handwriting and Drawings) from the Input Panel
To transfer ink input to another application:
1. Open the Tablet PC Input Panel.
2. Close the Text Preview window by deselecting it in Tools.
3. Open another application, such as Notepad, Wordpad, or Microsoft
Word to write your input to. If you don’t open this second application, your input will disappear from the Tablet PC Input Panel display in a few seconds.
4. Tap the down arrow beside Send.
5. Enable Send as Ink. (If the application you have open doesn’t accept ink input, this option will be grayed out.)
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