Wacom Bamboo & Office 2008

[graphei]

Hi All,

I'm a grad student and I just purchased a Wacom Bamboo tablet to make my life a little easier. I mainly bought it to mark up PDFs using two fab programs called Papers & Skim (total lifesavers for academics!), but now I find myself wanting to be able to take notes directly into Word Notebook feature. I managed to get it to work once, but don't remember what button/setting/magical incantation I used to make it work. Wacom did include a CD for Office, but it's Windows only. I also e-mailed them earlier, since their website had no particulars.

Any ideas?

Thanks

 

[John McGhie]

You must BE in Notebook Layout view before attempting this.

Then click the Scribble button on the toolbar and choose a colour.

From there, the Tablet ought to work...

Cheers

Hi All,

I'm a grad student and I just purchased a Wacom Bamboo tablet to make my life
a little easier. I mainly bought it to mark up PDFs using two fab programs
called Papers & Skim (total lifesavers for academics!), but now I find myself
wanting to be able to take notes directly into Word Notebook feature. I
managed to get it to work once, but don't remember what button/setting/magical
incantation I used to make it work. Wacom did include a CD for Office, but
it's Windows only. I also e-mailed them earlier, since their website had no
particulars.

Any ideas?

Thanks

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[graphei]

Ahh, I should have been a bit clearer.

When I use the scribble function, it creates mini-images instead of translating what I write into actual text OR just writes on the page without creating those mini-images

Basically, what I'm after is a OneNote and I know it's not available for us. I'm a grad student/researcher on a Power PC mac and I'm desperate for OneNote. For the record, the vast majority of other programs out there pale in comparison and/or cannot handle the sheer amount of information I need to process.

 

[John McGhie]

I've got a couple of free copies of OneNote here you can have if you like
I never got into it

Have you had a close look at OmniOutliner?
http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnioutliner/download/

I can't figure that one out either, so it must be exactly what you want

Handwriting recognition is a function of the Operating System, not Word.

You need to enable InkWell:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.5/en/8138.html

Cheers

Ahh, I should have been a bit clearer.

When I use the scribble function, it creates mini-images instead of
translating what I write into actual text OR just writes on the page without
creating those mini-images

Basically, what I'm after is a OneNote and I know it's not available for us.
I'm a grad student/researcher on a Power PC mac and I'm desperate for OneNote.
For the record, the vast majority of other programs out there pale in
comparison and/or cannot handle the sheer amount of information I need to
process.

--
Don't wait for your answer, click here: http://www.word.mvps.org/

Please reply in the group. Please do NOT email me unless I ask you to.

John McGhie, Consultant Technical Writer
+61 4 1209 1410, mailto:[email protected]
McGhie Information Engineering Pty Ltd
http://jgmcghie.fastmail.com.au/
Sydney, Australia. S33°53'34.20 E151°14'54.50