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Old 07-23-2008, 07:19 AM
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RE: tablet writing on Powerpoint slides?

Funny, I am in the midst of packing a Wacom Wireless tablet and returning to
wacom. Not because I disliked it but the "erase" capabilities (using the
eraser on the Pen) in PPT had a bug. According to Wacom technical support it
was a MSFT issue (do not doubt them) .

Every time I annotated a slide in presentation mode and tried to erase
something, a partial erase would happen and I would get forwarded to the next
slide. I would then have to page back and reattempt the erase... Very
annoying if you are doing a sales presentation.

I was able to identify a work around, you actually had to select the eraser
mode and then reselect the pen mode. Unfortunately, not conducive to a
sales presentation.

My sole objective was to use wacom as a mechanism to conducting a whiteboard
session in PPT to a prospect. The erase function does work properly if you
are not in presentation mode. Hope this helpd in your decision.

"GeoTol" wrote:

> Personnaly, I would rather use a separate tablet (Such as one available from
> Wacom) for writing on PowerPoint slides. Writing on a tablet screen is very
> akward if you also want to use the keyboard. The separate tablet is very
> natural and comfortable and replaces the mouse. It is also substantially
> cheaper than a tablet PC.
>
> "bookz" wrote:
>
> > Can I write by hand, underline things live, on a powerpoint presenation I'm
> > delivering using the Tablet Edition?

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