Special Edition Using Microsoft® Office 2003 Student-Teacher Edition

Chapter 28. Using Office on a Tablet PC

In this chapter

Office 2003 and the Tablet PC 854

Entering and Editing Text on a Tablet PC 856

Using Ink to Add Annotations and Comments 860

Using OneNote with Office 862

Troubleshooting 863

Office 2003 and the Tablet PC

If you use a portable PC running Windows XP, Office 2003 works exactly the same as it does on a desktop PC. There’s one significant exception to this rule, however: Using Windows XP Tablet PC Edition, you have access to a set of unique features that are ideally suited to educational environments.

In design, a Tablet PC is a notebook computer with a few hardware twists. The most obvious is the input device—a pen-shaped stylus that takes the place of a mouse and allows the user to select ...