Using Wacom 3 Tablet with Word 2003

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Florian Lauffer

I cannot find a customer service agent, or sales
representative number who can answer my questions. That
its impossible to find someone to answer questions before
I spend 200 US is BRUTAL! The question I have is this: I
am in the teaching profession and would like to write
solutions on word documents as part of exam preparation.
The document will be projected on a large screen and I
need flawless integration of the scribbling I intend to do
with my Wacom Graphire Tablet..... a sort of interactive
problem solving. Is this feasible with Word 2003? Or does
the scribbling require importing pictures like Word 2000?
Please let me know and get in touch with me at the address
given above.
 
What do you mean by flawless integration? What flaws might you expect to
get.

According to Wacom's site

Quote

The Graphire pen makes it easy to sketch and write notes in Microsoft Office
XP and Apple Inkwell. Mark up documents in Microsoft Word, annotate
presentations in Microsoft PowerPoint, and even jot a note to friends and
family.

Unquote

For a review of the tablet, see

http://www.dansdata.com/graphire.htm

That information was turned form just two of the links obtained by doing a
search in Google for Wacom Graphire Tablet. There's thousands more links
there. If you browse through some of them, you should get a good idea of
the tablet's ability.

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Hope this helps
Doug Robbins - Word MVP
 
I use the Wacom Graphire Tablet in teaching a Word class
on the Web to mark the errors, display the grade, make
comments, etc. directly on the students' submitted work.
Although it is a bit awkward, this is how I do it.

1. From the Drawing toolbar, select AutoShapes, Lines.
When the Line style options displays, I drag and dock the
toolbar containing the Line options to right side of the
screen to prevent having to reopen constantly. I use the
Scribble option to write on the papers on the screen.

2. In order to write continuously without having to
reselect the Scribble option when I lift the pen from the
tablet, I click a button once on the side of the pen
used with the tablet that is equivalent to a double-
click. The feature remains active, and I can write
without re-selecting. A click on the Scribble option when
I am finished, turns it off.

3. At this point, what you have written or marked is
displayed in black. Since we teachers like red, I created
a couple of keyboard macros: one that will group the
selected items into one item and another that changes the
line color to red and the line width to 1 1/2 points. I
first choose the Select Objects tool on the Drawing
toolbar and select all the markings I added on the
screen. Then I run the macro to group selected itmes into
one, then run the macro which changes the line color to
red and line width to 1 1/2. Change the color to red and
increasing the width of the line makes it much more
prominent. You can write directly on top of keyed text,
and it can be read easily. When students view they
electronically graded documents, they have the same
appearance as documents I mark in my on-campus class.

I'm sure there is someone out there with a much better
solution, so I am eager to view other respones. This was
the best I came up with. Hope it helps.
 
Does the "inking" utility that works on a Tablet PC with Word 2003 work on
that tablet? With that the default ink color is Red.

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Please post any further questions or followup to the newsgroups for the
benefit of others who may be interested. Unsolicited questions forwarded
directly to me will only be answered on a paid consulting basis.

Hope this helps
Doug Robbins - Word MVP
 
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