User's Manual

Chapter 4
Using Your Motion Tablet PC
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MAKING BEST
USE OF THE
TABLET PC
INPUT PANEL
The Tablet PC Input Panel keyboard and writing pad let you:
Enter information in other input fields, such as passwords
Hand write or type entries in Journal documents
Write or type E-mail messages
1. Open the Tablet PC Input Panel by tapping the icon,
shown here.
2. With another application active, such as a password entry field, a
Journal document, or Outlook, write or type on the Input Panel win-
dow.
3. By default, after a short delay, your handwriting will be automati-
cally sent to the active program.
HINTS FOR
WORKING WITH
THE INPUT
PANEL
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 have Microsoft Office installed but not Pen Extensions, these
programs (Microsoft Word, Outlook, and Excel) will not accept ink.
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: