Changes to handwriting/inking behavior in OneNote 2007

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Hi,

I love OneNote and use inking heaviliy on my tablet. I eagerly bought the
2007 version and the first thing I noticed were a bunch of negative changes
(negative from my perspective given the way I used OneNote 2003) to the
behavior of the inking/handwriting functionallity. The following is the list
of that I have noticed. Is there anyway to make these work the way they did
in 2003?

1. I can't create handwritten lists anymore where OneNote automatically does
the bulleting and/or numbering. I read a blog post about how to do this with
handwritten bullets/numbers, but I can't figure out how to make OneNote
automatically do this for me like it used to.

2. Where did the note containers go when I'm handwriting my notes? Can I
get them back? I used to find this very useful because I was able to see and
precicely control the word wraping and new lines.

3. How do you get OneNote 2007 to correctly recognize when you are
continuing the previously written line on a new live vs. when you are
starting a new paragraph on a seperate line?

4. When I press the selection button on my tablet pen (ThinkPad x41) it used
to change to the text selection tool, but now it uses the lasso. Can I
switch it back to use text selection instead?

5. I've been having a lot of problems with the automatic switching between
pen and selection tool. It used to work really well, now it barely works at
all and when it does, it switches incorrectly.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

 

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I love OneNote and use inking heaviliy on my tablet. I eagerly bought the
2007 version and the first thing I noticed were a bunch of negative changes
(negative from my perspective given the way I used OneNote 2003) to the
behavior of the inking/handwriting functionallity.

Sounds like you want more text, less handwriting, in your work. The
greater flexibility of handwriting in ON 2007 (approaching that of
Journal, but not quite there) is one of the better aspects, from my own
perspective.

It appears you want text from handwriting, not handwriting itself, as
the target for the page.

For instance, if ON autonumbers a list, then you no longer have
handwriting on the page. Then handwriting must conform to the spacing
and layout of the autonumbering. This really does rule out any but the
most stringent freeform notes on such a list.

The containers again served to re-arrange handwriting at the most
inopportune moment. Probably not an issue if you were happy being
constrained by the 2003 writing mechanics, but anyone that fails to see
the differences in preservation of handwritten content between use of
the lasso and the text selection tool is clearly not interested in
handwriting as the final medium.

The statement about precisely controlling handwritten text through the
use of containers leaves me mystified - in my view of things the pen
should lay down the image, and it stays put until I lasso it or erase it
- more closely modeling pen and paper (except for the lasso part, and
more than once I have tried to move things on a whiteboard out of
habit). Otherwise what you lay down with pen will NOT be what is on the
page at a later date - things shifted bad in ON 2003, not quite as bad
in ON 2007.

..02, FWIW