tablet writing on Powerpoint slides?

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Can I write by hand, underline things live, on a powerpoint presenation I'm
delivering using the Tablet Edition?
 
Yes. Have you tried it? You'll need to press and hold the pen to activate the
menu and then make a choice of the pen.
 
Thanks Sonia, no I haven't tried it because I am just now thinking about
buying a tablet for this purpose...and at the store they don't have
Powerpoint installed on the displays to try it.

Can I do it on the screen in the 'slide show' display format? or just in the
"editing" display format?
 
You can do it in slide show mode. However... You will need to make sure that
you use a cloned desktop, not an extended one when connected to the LCD.
Otherwise, your ink will show on your Tablet PC, but not on the overhead.
(Does that make sense?)

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I don't know what "cloned desktop" means nor "Extended Desktop"

Normally I just plug my laptop and toggle the function key to make the
screen display the same on the laptop and the projector. Is that what you
mean by "cloned?"
 
With a Tablet, it can work a little different than a regular laptop. You
will want to have the same data show on both displays, but it is set up in a
slightly different manner. Instead of using the function keys to do the
swap, you set it up from the display properties. When you have decided which
Tablet you are getting, post the information here and I will help you
through it.

By the way, I use my Tablet constantly while traveling. In fact, all of the
presentations I did during PPT Live were done from my Tablet. I love it. You
will too.

--
Kathryn Jacobs, Microsoft MVP PowerPoint and OneNote
Author of Kathy Jacobs on PowerPoint - Available now from Holy Macro! Books
Get PowerPoint answers at http://www.powerpointanswers.com
I believe life is meant to be lived. But:
if we live without making a difference, it makes no difference that we lived
 
Kathy J said:
With a Tablet, it can work a little different than a regular laptop. You
will want to have the same data show on both displays, but it is set up in a
slightly different manner. Instead of using the function keys to do the
swap, you set it up from the display properties. When you have decided which
Tablet you are getting, post the information here and I will help you
through it.

By the way, I use my Tablet constantly while traveling. In fact, all of the
presentations I did during PPT Live were done from my Tablet. I love it. You
will too.

--
Kathryn Jacobs, Microsoft MVP PowerPoint and OneNote
Author of Kathy Jacobs on PowerPoint - Available now from Holy Macro! Books
Get PowerPoint answers at http://www.powerpointanswers.com
I believe life is meant to be lived. But:
if we live without making a difference, it makes no difference that we lived
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Personnaly, I would rather use a separate tablet (Such as one available from
Wacom) for writing on PowerPoint slides. Writing on a tablet screen is very
akward if you also want to use the keyboard. The separate tablet is very
natural and comfortable and replaces the mouse. It is also substantially
cheaper than a tablet PC.
 
Funny, I am in the midst of packing a Wacom Wireless tablet and returning to
wacom. Not because I disliked it but the "erase" capabilities (using the
eraser on the Pen) in PPT had a bug. According to Wacom technical support it
was a MSFT issue (do not doubt them) .

Every time I annotated a slide in presentation mode and tried to erase
something, a partial erase would happen and I would get forwarded to the next
slide. I would then have to page back and reattempt the erase... Very
annoying if you are doing a sales presentation.

I was able to identify a work around, you actually had to select the eraser
mode and then reselect the pen mode. Unfortunately, not conducive to a
sales presentation.

My sole objective was to use wacom as a mechanism to conducting a whiteboard
session in PPT to a prospect. The erase function does work properly if you
are not in presentation mode. Hope this helpd in your decision.
 
Well, as I was saying... I had packed the tablet from Wacom. For some
reason, I googled the problem one more time. I found on another forum the
suggestion to turn off the "advance by mouse click option". That seemed to
resolve the problem momentarily. I then decided to use the eraser and the
ctrl key at the same time. AND it worked...!!!!

i will give it a few more days... if this continues to work. I will keep
the wacom.
 
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