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Chapter 3
Using SMART Ink with Microsoft Office
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Chapter 3: Using SMART Ink with Microsoft Office
Writing and drawing in Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint 42
Using SMART Ink during PowerPoint presentations 43
Moving the SMART Ink Toolbar for PowerPoint 43
Displaying slides 44
Writing or drawing in digital ink 44
Ending your presentation 45
SMART Ink includes plug-ins that enable you to use the software with Microsoft Office applications.
NOTE
This chapter applies to Windows operating systems only.
Writing and drawing in Microsoft Word, Excel and
PowerPoint
Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint have their own ink tools. You can enable these ink tools in SMART Ink
Settings (see Changing settings in Windows operating systems on page 55).
The following table compares Microsoft’s ink tools and SMART Ink:
Category Microsoft’s ink tools SMART Ink
Purpose Reviewing or making changes to a
document Highlighting important notes or drawing
attention to content in a document
How ink is
captured Ink is inserted directly in your document. Ink is captured in a transparent layer over
your document.
How to save ink The inserted ink is saved with the
document. Take a screen capture and save it using
SMART software (see page 22).