Pen input cumbersome/slow

[Felix E. Klee]

I find working with OneNote and a tablet quite slow when using a pen.
There are two reasons:

* Navigating to the toolbar to switch a pen is cumbersome. Is it
possible to assign shortcuts to the pens I need most?

* Sometimes hand writing is just slow. I.e. the drawn lines only
slowly follow the cursor. I already tried disabled handwriting
recognition, but the issue persists. The workaround: Restart OneNote.
Is there any fix in sight?

My machine is a pretty new ThinkPad T61, so processing power and RAM
(3GB) shouldn't be an issue.

- Felix

 

[Ben M. Schorr, MVP]

Are you using OneNote 2007? Which operating system are you using?

You can turn on the Pens toolbar and dock it along the left side or bottom
of the screen to make it a little more accessible. Actually...you could
even float it in the middle of the screen somewhere if you really wanted to.
I have mine docked at the bottom and I find it fairly easy to change pens
there.


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-Ben-
Ben M. Schorr, MVP
Roland Schorr & Tower
http://www.rolandschorr.com
http://www.officeforlawyers.com/onenote.htm

 

[Felix E. Klee]

Are you using OneNote 2007?
Yes.

Which operating system are you using?
Vista.


You can turn on the Pens toolbar and dock it along the left side or bottom
of the screen to make it a little more accessible. Actually...you could
even float it in the middle of the screen somewhere if you really wanted to.
I have mine docked at the bottom and I find it fairly easy to change pens
there.

Thanks for the suggestions. However, everything I try is not
satisfactory. Nothing compared in working speed to ordinary pen and
paper, or chalk and blackboard.

- Felix

 

[Ben M. Schorr, MVP]

You can turn on the Pens toolbar and dock it along the left side or

Thanks for the suggestions. However, everything I try is not
satisfactory. Nothing compared in working speed to ordinary pen and
paper, or chalk and blackboard.

I can change pens on my Tablet PC faster than I can put down one pen, find
and pick up a different pen. I can store a lot more data, for a much longer
time on OneNote than I can on a blackboard - and the blackboard is hard to
share with team-members in different offices.

Don't even get me started on searching the pen and paper or recording audio
with it.

Sorry, the technology isn't quite at the point yet where it's exactly as
fast as pen and paper. It makes up for that very slight shortcoming by
bringing a tremendous amount of other capability that pen and paper can
never hope to have.

--
-Ben-
Ben M. Schorr, MVP
Roland Schorr & Tower
http://www.rolandschorr.com
http://www.officeforlawyers.com/onenote.htm