Well, as I was saying... I had packed the tablet from Wacom. For some
reason, I googled the problem one more time. I found on another forum the
suggestion to turn off the "advance by mouse click option". That seemed to
resolve the problem momentarily. I then decided to use the eraser and the
ctrl key at the same time. AND it worked...!!!!

i will give it a few more days... if this continues to work. I will keep
the wacom.

"salesjv" wrote:

> 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?