Slide show and pen

[Pia Bork]

Hello,
I am sorry if this messages occurs two times, but I cannot see the one I
posted yesterday evening.

As some others I cannot activate the pen during slide show.

I understood that the installation of handwriting tools should solve the
problem. But in my case it did not. I also tried a full installation of
Office 2003 - but I was not successfull. Pen and highlight is still dead, no
reaction at all.

The problem occurs on a notebook, Windows XP Pro with Servicepacks, Office
2003 Pro MUI with SP1, cordless mouse and touchpad.

Any helpful idea?

Curios enough: the same installation on a desktop-computer works fine (also
MUI, also cordless mouse - but no touchpad). Pen and highlight can be used.

 

[Bill Dilworth]

Pia,

This is not something I deal with on a normal basis, but I think the options
under Start => Control Panel => Regional and Language options => (tab)
Languages => Details => (tab) Advanced, then check the box under
Compatibility and uncheck the one under System Config.

I think this is what you may be looking for.


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[Steve Rindsberg]

Hi Pia,

I understood that the installation of handwriting tools should solve the
problem. But in my case it did not. I also tried a full installation of
Office 2003 - but I was not successfull. Pen and highlight is still dead, no
reaction at all.

The problem occurs on a notebook, Windows XP Pro with Servicepacks, Office
2003 Pro MUI with SP1, cordless mouse and touchpad.

Any helpful idea?

Curios enough: the same installation on a desktop-computer works fine (also
MUI, also cordless mouse - but no touchpad). Pen and highlight can be used.

Does the touchpad work normally otherwise? It's possible to disable the
touchpad on some laptops (in case you're using an exernal mouse and don't want
to worry about accidentally moving the cursor).

 

[Pia Bork]

Hi Steve,

Does the touchpad work normally otherwise? It's possible to disable
the touchpad on some laptops (in case you're using an exernal mouse
and don't want to worry about accidentally moving the cursor).

it works normally. But I can't disable the touchpad. I tried it without
mouse, but the pen still does not work.

 

[Pia Bork]

Hi Bill,

This is not something I deal with on a normal basis, but I think the
options under Start => Control Panel => Regional and Language options
=> (tab) Languages => Details => (tab) Advanced, then check the box
under Compatibility and uncheck the one under System Config.

the boxes were checked/unchecked the way you described. Curios enough both
boxes are not checked on my desktop computer - and there the pen works.