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Get your presentation noticed with ink annotations
You can use your Tablet PC with its pen input device
to create Ink Annotations. Ink Annotations are like
handwritten notes that lie on top of your slides. Ink
Annotations can be used in Slide Show mode or while
you are editing slides. When you create Ink
Annotations, they are saved with the presentation
and are visible thereafter even by users who do not
have or use Tablet PCs.
Ink Annotations can be particularly useful when you
collaborate with a team on presentation content. You
can add an Ink Annotation on a slide asking a team
member to investigate or research a topic. You can
even sketch out how you want a slide to appear
when finished to help the team member responsible
for the slide.
There are several pen styles from which to choose,
including Ballpoint, Felt Tip, and Highlighters. Each
pen style gives the Ink Annotations a different shape
or width. You can also choose from a variety of Ink
colors, with the default colors coming from the slide’s
design theme.
1 Click the Review tab.
2 Click Start Inking.
* The Ink Tools controls appear.
3 Click the pen style you want
to use.
4 Click Weight.
5 Click the line width you want
to use.
6 Ink the slide as desired.
7 Repeat Steps 3 to 6
to continue inking in
a different pen style
or color.
8 When you are finished, click Close Ink
Tools.
The Ink stays on the slide.
Try This!
To use ink annotations
during presentations,
position your Tablet PC
input device pen over the
lower part of the slide until
you see the pen icon
activated. Tap the pen icon
and then use the menu
that appears to tap the pen
and color you want to use.
Customize It!
You can also use ink colors
not included in the design
theme you are using. Follow
Steps 1 and 2 above to
display the Ink Tools. Click
Color and then click More
Ink Colors. In the Colors
dialog box, click the color
you want to use. Click OK.
Reverse It!
You can erase ink
annotations. To erase the
most recent annotation,
press Ctrl+Z. To erase any
annotation, click the Eraser
in the Pens tab, and then
tap the annotation you want
to erase.