Answered: Handwriting Recognition Guide

[Andy Lin]

Note: I posted this as a new thread in case people want to
try this awesome feature out.



Oh Benoit, I could kiss you right now! That was exactly
it. After I switched languages, immediately all the menus
and icons I had tried adding showed up. I had icons
everywhere.

Thank you very much for fixing this. However, it would be
helpful to include this sort of documentation in the Help.
I couldn't find any reference to Handwriting Recognition
Guide in the online help, and certainly many people will
find this feature very useful. Thanks again.

-Andy

-----Original Message-----
I'm sorry I didn't get to reply to this thread earlier - I'll try to clear
things up.

The Handwriting Recognition Guide menu item was a feature mainly targeting
east Asian languages as we display a different writing guide (boxed). These
boxes can be very useful even if the user don't want to see all the ink
groups in the page. I did not see any change in SP1 that can affect this
behavior, either in the preview or the final code.

However, it is possible to have it show on English TabletPCs given a few
steps. If you start OneNote, change your keyboard to an east Asian one (like
Japanese), then click the View menu (the first time after starting OneNote),
the menu entry should appear. It'll then appear every time from now on no
matter which keyboard layout you are using.

Note that you might need to install the east Asian language support in
Windows to be able to enable an east Asian keyboard layout. Hopefully you
already have it installed if you saw that menu item in the past.

Hope this help.
Benoit [ms]

Note: Some might notice this creates

a "ShowWritingGuideMenu" item in the