M
Marcia
I've read questions from others that are similar to my issue, but apparently,
my issue is different because the solution given to other users doesn't seem
to work for me - i.e., the "Tools --> Options --> Pen --> uncheck
'Automatically switch between Pen and Selection Tool'" solution does nothing
to fix my problem.
First, I'm using OneNote in the Office 2007 Student Edition on a Gateway
laptop running Vista 32-bit Home Premium, in case that's relevant.
Here's what I'm working with:
The reading materials for my classes come from journal articles that are
posted online by my professors in PDF format. Unfortunately, the PDF
articles were created from scanned images rather than OCR text which means
that's how they get imported into OneNote. Needless to say, because OneNote
can't recognize the text within the image, I can't select text and highlight
it in the usual way. Instead, I'm using the rectangular drawing tool to
create highlighted boxes around the text I want highlighted.
The problem:
I have to keep reselecting the rectangular drawing tool each time I use it.
Normally, this wouldn't be a problem since reselecting the rectangular tool
is really no different than having to reselect the highlight tool. But at
least with the highlight tool, I can select everything I need to select at
once. With the rectangular tool, however, I can only select as much as the
width of the tool is set too. So for example, if I have to highlight 4 lines
of text, I have to select the rectangular tool 4 times.
Is there a way to get OneNote to keep the rectangal tool selected until I
unselect it? Or is there a way to disable the selection tool as the default?
This seems like such a basic request that it would be an assumed OneNote
feature.
my issue is different because the solution given to other users doesn't seem
to work for me - i.e., the "Tools --> Options --> Pen --> uncheck
'Automatically switch between Pen and Selection Tool'" solution does nothing
to fix my problem.
First, I'm using OneNote in the Office 2007 Student Edition on a Gateway
laptop running Vista 32-bit Home Premium, in case that's relevant.
Here's what I'm working with:
The reading materials for my classes come from journal articles that are
posted online by my professors in PDF format. Unfortunately, the PDF
articles were created from scanned images rather than OCR text which means
that's how they get imported into OneNote. Needless to say, because OneNote
can't recognize the text within the image, I can't select text and highlight
it in the usual way. Instead, I'm using the rectangular drawing tool to
create highlighted boxes around the text I want highlighted.
The problem:
I have to keep reselecting the rectangular drawing tool each time I use it.
Normally, this wouldn't be a problem since reselecting the rectangular tool
is really no different than having to reselect the highlight tool. But at
least with the highlight tool, I can select everything I need to select at
once. With the rectangular tool, however, I can only select as much as the
width of the tool is set too. So for example, if I have to highlight 4 lines
of text, I have to select the rectangular tool 4 times.
Is there a way to get OneNote to keep the rectangal tool selected until I
unselect it? Or is there a way to disable the selection tool as the default?
This seems like such a basic request that it would be an assumed OneNote
feature.