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© 2006 SMART Technologies Inc. All rights reserved. Sympodium is a registered trademark of SMART Technologies Inc. in Canada, the U.S. and EU. Sympodium, 

SMART Board, Notebook and the SMART logo are trademarks of SMART Technologies Inc. All other third-party product and company names may be trademarks 

of their respective owners. Printed in Canada 05/2006.

Pen-Tool Buttons

Use the pen-tool buttons to select a digital ink color or to erase digital ink. Be sure to press the left mouse button 
when you have finished writing or drawing so that you can operate your computer or access other SMART Board 
Tools.

Writing and Erasing Notes

To write over your desktop image, pick up the tethered pen, press a pen-tool button to select your digital ink color, 
and write on the interactive display. Select another pen-tool button to change your ink color. To erase your notes, 
select the eraser, and move the pen in a smooth motion over your notes. Press the left mouse button to return the 
pen to mouse mode.

Saving Your Notes

You can easily save notes on your interactive pen display for future reference.

  1  Select one of the pen-tool buttons, and write on the interactive display. The 

Floating Tools toolbar will appear.

  2  To save a selected area of your screen, press the 

Area Capture 

button on 

the Floating Tools toolbar. Touch the display with the pen, and without 
releasing pressure, drag the selection box to outline the area you want to 
capture.

  3  Notebook™

 

software will open automatically and display your notes on a 

new Notebook page, which you can then save as a Notebook file or export as a PDF

NOTE

: If the Floating Tools toolbar does not appear when you select one of the pen display’s pen-tool buttons, 

you may be working in an Ink Aware application (e.g., Microsoft

®

 Word). If the application is Ink Aware, these 

buttons will be available in the application’s own toolbar.

Selects digital ink colors

Erases
digital
ink

Makes next

touch a

left-click

Makes next
touch a 
right-click

Launches
On-Screen
Keyboard

Area Capture

button

Aware Tools toolbar

Captures an 
image of your 
entire screen

Inserts a note

or drawing as

a graphic

object

Inserts your writing in the 
document as text

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