Inserting white space

[Michael A]

Hi Chris.

Just to let you know what finally happened.

I removed OneNote using the 'add-remove software' from the control panel.
I then re-installed OneNote from CD.

The behavior remains unchanged--very strange. I discovered that actually
select-all (through the menu or ctrl-A) works sometimes and not others. And
of course the insert space is very flaky. I think my machine is OK (and
GoBinder works well in this regard). The only thing left would be a reformat
and reinstallation from scratch--which I don't want to do (yet).

--Mike

 

[Chris H.]

I'm not sure what else to suggest. Perhaps someone else will drop by with
an idea. BTW - I believe I noticed you're running an old Wacom driver. You
might want to download and install the latest 4.82-9a driver from
http://www.wacom.com/tabletpc/driver.cfm .
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Chris H.
Microsoft Windows MVP/Tablet PC
Tablet Creations - http://nicecreations.us/
Associate Expert
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[Chris_Pratley \(MS\)]

In Onenote, for curious reasons I won't go into, Ctrl-A selects everything
in your current "scope" (e.g. paragraph). If you do it again, you get
everything in your note conatiner. Once again and you get everything on the
page. This is a little more powerful than just selecting everything on the
page, but not at all what people expect.

The insert more space tool works best if your handwriting is not messy. Try
writing on a new page a few lines cleanly, one on each blue line on the
page. Now the insert space tool should work pretty well.

Back on your other page, try turning on View/Show Ink groups. This will show
you the boundaries of the groups that OneNote has tried to fit your ink
into. if you see many ofthem all over the palce, you have written too
messily (or with too much "personality" ) for Onenote to understand.

When you insert more space by clicking on some blank area on the page,
OneNote grabs all the groups below the bar and moves them. If you click down
inside a note container, it will only move the items in that specific
container. If you leave the ink groups visible for a few days of usage you
should be able to figure out what is going on.

Honest, it all gets much better if you write a little more cleanly. If
you're pretty messy, it overwhelms the parsing engine. Sorry - we plan to
make this much better next go round.

Chris (MS)

 

[Michael A]

Thankyou Chris and Chris for all your help and suggestions!

OK. The ctrl-A I now understand and it works (so far ctrl-A up to 3 times to
select all beyond the scope of a line, then a paragraph, then everything).

The messyness may be the key. I am not really that messy (I think: that is I
stay within the lines) but I have been consistently using a user contributed
page "narrow lines" which puts the rule lines lines closer together, but
looks much closer to the type of paper writing pad I used to use. Since the
rule lines are closer together, so is the handwriting, so this may present a
problem to the parser.

I will perservere.

Thanks again for all your help Chris H and Chris P.

 

[Chris H.]

Hope everything works out okay. I believe the smaller your handwriting on a
Tablet PC, the better the recognition. Just my own observation of how Ink
performs for me. Take a look at the sample of my scribble on my web site,
and you'll see what I mean.
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In memory of a true friend, Windows MVP Alex Nichol

Chris H.
Microsoft Windows MVP/Tablet PC
Tablet Creations - http://nicecreations.us/
Associate Expert
Expert Zone -

 

[Chris_Pratley \(MS\)]

Actually, the reason that we didn't provide the narrow rule lined paper in
the product was because it can cause problems for our ink parser. But
someone put the stationery up on the site because people were asking for it.
Just bear in mind that it does have this side effect.