Ink moving itself after losing focus

[Michael R. Brown]

I use OneNote intensively as a medical student to diagram various things like
nerve pathways and arteries. I have been using OneNote 2007 trial for more
than a month now and am having some big issues with OneNote moving the inking
in my drawings after I select another option (I'm assuming losing the focus
on that inking). Usually this happens when I ink a part of a diagram and
then go to select the lasso option so I can then move some of that inking.
It will then shift my ink (usually down and to the right) a centimeter or so
that I just added. The worst part of it all is that I cannot undo this as
the last undo option is adding the ink that gets shifted. I cannot tell you
how immensely frustrating this is as it has ruined several hours worth of
work before (yes I do back up, but you still lose the last hours worth of
stuff to go to the backup). I am hoping to get to the bottom of this or I am
going to have to stop using OneNote because the time and fustration I am
saving by using OneNote is being outweighed by this issue. Anyone else
experiencing similar problems????

 

[Lin]

Can you send us the problem file? And if you have screenshots of before and
after moves that'll be awesome.

-Lin (MS)

 

[Alex]

Michael, when you say you are using the "Trial" version, is this the trial of
the final version, or a beta? If Beta, the final version has fixes in it
that address ink moving. I can't say that we got all of them, but it should
be better.

-Alex <MS>

 

[Michael R. Brown]

Its the trial of the final version

Michael, when you say you are using the "Trial" version, is this the trial of
the final version, or a beta? If Beta, the final version has fixes in it
that address ink moving. I can't say that we got all of them, but it should
be better.

-Alex <MS>

 

[Michael R. Brown]

I don't know how you want me to send them to you so I just zipped two
examples and put them here
http://www.kristyandmichael.net/downloads/inkmoved.zip

The first example is kind of a jumbled mess, but if you look at it you can
see where the lines have shifted down (it should look like a bunch of
branches on a tree).

The second example is more recent (yesterday) . I noticed later in the
afternoon that some text I had written that morning had shifted up. You have
to scroll down to the area I highlighted with a green highlighter. Notice
that only certain colors have moved up, whereas others have stayed put. You
can also see places where I underlined key words and those underlines are now
above all the words I underlined.

Various things I have tried to stop this:

Turned off switch auto between pen and selection tool. (So I can't
accidentally move something)
Disabled show note containers (they were getting in the way since I had so
much inking and so many note containers).
The right click button on my input pen is disabled.

This is all being used on a Toshiba Satellite R10 with Windows XP Tablet
Edition

The problem is the shifts are so subtle that I don't notice them till later
when I go back over my notes. My suspicions are that they occur when I add
additional inking to sections above or below the section that gets shifted as
I am reviewing my lectures and find key points I forgot to add to my
summaries.

Thanks for your help in this.

-Michael Brown

 

[MTS]

Michael,
I am experiencing the same movement of ink and subsequent frustration. If
you found a solution, please let me know. (I posted a similar question today
4-22-07 - search for "keep notes stable" and you can respond to this question
or your question).
To no avail, I have searched for settings in ON that will allow only one
container and, also to no avail, have perused the ON discussion group for any
solution. Also, I posted here a month or so ago, and to my knowledge, have
received no answer.
Thanks for any help.
Mike Stewart
PS If any MS staffer can help we'd appreciate it.