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Grant Robertson
Well, I installed the B2TR and the WDS 3.0 update this morning. It went
pretty well. I didn't have a single hitch.
I used it to take notes in class today. Here are my first impressions:
It doesn't look a whole lot different but I have to say a lot of things
work a lot better now.
It does a much better job of handling handwriting now. It is better at
interpreting what counts as a paragraph. The previous release had just
treated almost every line as a new paragraph. It indents well now. If I
indent a line it actually treats it as a sub-heading of the line before
it rather than just treating it as if it were at the same level but with
a big space before the first word like it did before. One of the best
things is that it does not trash my paragraphs if I move them around.
I noticed that it now has one click select. If you click on a stroke it
selects it. However, it only selects that stroke. If you click on a word
with 't's and 'i's you won't get the crosses or dots. If you want to
select the entire word you can either double-click it with the text tool
or lasso select it.
Keep in mind, though, that click-selecting or lasso selecting a word
selects it as just ink rather than as ink handwriting. You can tell by
the way it only highlights the ink strokes instead of a whole block like
when you select a word in any other program. If you drag select or
double-click-select the word using the text tool then it selects it as a
real word in handwriting.
You may wonder what the difference could possibly be. Well, this brings
up the one big bug that I hadn't really noticed till just recently but
still exists in B2TR. You can't paste ink from OneNote back into OneNote.
Strange but true. Try it. If you select a word using the text tool then
you can copy and paste it elsewhere in OneNote. But, if you lasso select
any ink strokes - whether it is handwriting or just drawing strokes - you
can't paste it back into OneNote! I can paste it into Journal. I can even
copy it back out of Journal then paste it into OneNote. But you cannot
copy and paste ink from OneNote directly back into OneNote! I will be
entering this one into Connect for sure.
Also, they finally have a grid size small enough to actually use. It is
not quite the same size as the smallest ruled line spacing but it is
better than what we had before. Suggestion: make the grid spacings match
the ruled line spacings so we can switch between them and have things
still line up.
One last little gotcha is easy to correct. When you are in full screen
mode the default toolbar is about twice the width of a rotated screen so
most of the buttons are in the menu to the right. You can fix that by
turning on other menus and customizing them to your heart's content. It's
just weird that they did that.
pretty well. I didn't have a single hitch.
I used it to take notes in class today. Here are my first impressions:
It doesn't look a whole lot different but I have to say a lot of things
work a lot better now.
It does a much better job of handling handwriting now. It is better at
interpreting what counts as a paragraph. The previous release had just
treated almost every line as a new paragraph. It indents well now. If I
indent a line it actually treats it as a sub-heading of the line before
it rather than just treating it as if it were at the same level but with
a big space before the first word like it did before. One of the best
things is that it does not trash my paragraphs if I move them around.
I noticed that it now has one click select. If you click on a stroke it
selects it. However, it only selects that stroke. If you click on a word
with 't's and 'i's you won't get the crosses or dots. If you want to
select the entire word you can either double-click it with the text tool
or lasso select it.
Keep in mind, though, that click-selecting or lasso selecting a word
selects it as just ink rather than as ink handwriting. You can tell by
the way it only highlights the ink strokes instead of a whole block like
when you select a word in any other program. If you drag select or
double-click-select the word using the text tool then it selects it as a
real word in handwriting.
You may wonder what the difference could possibly be. Well, this brings
up the one big bug that I hadn't really noticed till just recently but
still exists in B2TR. You can't paste ink from OneNote back into OneNote.
Strange but true. Try it. If you select a word using the text tool then
you can copy and paste it elsewhere in OneNote. But, if you lasso select
any ink strokes - whether it is handwriting or just drawing strokes - you
can't paste it back into OneNote! I can paste it into Journal. I can even
copy it back out of Journal then paste it into OneNote. But you cannot
copy and paste ink from OneNote directly back into OneNote! I will be
entering this one into Connect for sure.
Also, they finally have a grid size small enough to actually use. It is
not quite the same size as the smallest ruled line spacing but it is
better than what we had before. Suggestion: make the grid spacings match
the ruled line spacings so we can switch between them and have things
still line up.
One last little gotcha is easy to correct. When you are in full screen
mode the default toolbar is about twice the width of a rotated screen so
most of the buttons are in the menu to the right. You can fix that by
turning on other menus and customizing them to your heart's content. It's
just weird that they did that.