tablet mode and extended desktop?

[barb]

Anyone out there use a tablet mode with an extended desktop on an
external monitor? I'm thinking about buying an external monitor and
am wondering if this will work. I'd like to use OneNote on the tablet
and the extended desktop on the external monitor as a "regular"
computer. Thanks for any advise/experience you can give.

 

[Erik Sojka]

If the video card on the Tablet supports it, it should work. Make sure to
set the external monitor as #1 (so that the Start Menu, etc. will appear
there) and then drag the OneNote window to the Tablet screen. I've done
this many times - presented a PPT presentation on a projector while taking
notes on the Tablet. Be sure you have an external mouse plugged in for
interaction with the GUI on the external monitor.

 

[Brian]

Hallo,
I'd like to join this thread because I often use One note/ppt at the same
time and I find the discussion very interesting.

I tried this useful setting (I've always been using the projector as monitor
#2 and use one note on the main screen), the only trouble is that if I try
to turn the monitor on which I handwrite in vertical mode, screen #2 (on
this test it was an lcd monitor) goes horizontal, so that people should bend
their heads 90° to read (non very comfortable).
Is there a way to use the tablet in vertical mode to handwrite on it and
have the #1 monitor or projector to appear vertical as well?

You said that you take notes while running a ppt presentation. I tried this
one too, but when I write on One note, if I press the arrow key or any
other, the key has effect on one note and not on the ppt.
How do you manage that? Do you think that an IR remote could do?

Thank you very much for the suggestion and for any answer

Maurizio

 

[Erik Sojka]

As far as I know, the screen orientation must apply to both/all screens.
I've only done this in XP (haven't upgraded my Tablet to Vista yet so I
don't know if one can set different orientations for different monitors).
In that scenario, I keep the Tablet's orientation on landscape, so that it
matches how people will view the projected screen. Depending on the model
of projector or screen in use, there may be some image adjustment options
on the hardware menus to rotate/mirror the screen. Check the manual for
the projector or peruse the onscreen setup menus.

Windows will always apply keyboard and mouse input to the application which
has focus; I'm not sure of a way around that. I switch to the
presentation before changing slides to avoid the problem you cite. I
haven't played with an external presenter/pointer to see how PPT handles
that.

 

[Brian]

ok, Thanks again
maurizio

As far as I know, the screen orientation must apply to both/all screens.
I've only done this in XP (haven't upgraded my Tablet to Vista yet so I
don't know if one can set different orientations for different monitors).
In that scenario, I keep the Tablet's orientation on landscape, so that it
matches how people will view the projected screen. Depending on the model
of projector or screen in use, there may be some image adjustment options
on the hardware menus to rotate/mirror the screen. Check the manual for
the projector or peruse the onscreen setup menus.

Windows will always apply keyboard and mouse input to the application
which
has focus; I'm not sure of a way around that. I switch to the
presentation before changing slides to avoid the problem you cite. I
haven't played with an external presenter/pointer to see how PPT handles
that.