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Tablet PC Quick Reference
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Tablet PC Quick Reference

by Jeff Van West
November 2002
Intermediate to advanced
288 pages
6h 42m
English
Microsoft Press
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Chapter 2. Tablet PC Input Panel and Ink

The Tablet PC Input Panel is primarily a tool for entering text when a standard keyboard is not convenient or available. This, of course, is something you must do all the time on a tablet, so Input Panel is a large part of your tablet experience. Ideally, you could use your pen and enter information directly into any document by putting the pen to the screen where you want the information to go and starting to write. In fact, this was the original plan for pen input and may be possible as more programs appear specifically designed for the tablet. The problem is that the majority of programs you use on your tablet today were designed for keyboard input, not for pen input. The first attempts at making keyboard-centric ...

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