Reconfiguring The Floating Tools - Smart Technologies Smart Board User Manual

Two Buttons to Note: The Restore/Clear Annotations and Screen
Capture Buttons
A Floating Tools button that deserves special mention is the Restore/Clear Annotations
button. This very useful dual-function button may in itself justify keeping the Floating Tools
constantly open on your interactive whiteboard. When you write something on the board, the
button is in its Clear Annotations state; as soon as you delete an annotation, the button
changes to Restore Annotations.
Let's say you've written an important note, but your elbow grazes the board as you turn
towards your audience: the annotation you just made will disappear. Just press the Restore
Annotations button and your note will be restored. If you haven't activated the Floating Tools,
don't panic. Press on the SMART Board icon, select Floating Tools, and then press the
Restore Annotations button. The last cleared annotation – in this case, the one you
accidentally lost – will be restored.
NOTE: To access this feature for a Macintosh computer, press the SMART Board icon and
select Restore Annotations.
The Screen Capture button (Windows operating system only) is another valuable tool that is
added to the Floating Tools whenever you write on a non-board-aware application. Use it
when you want to capture your annotations plus an image of the underlying application.
When you press this button, SMART Notebook software automatically launches and the
current annotations plus the application background are saved as separate objects in the
current Notebook file.
NOTE: The screen capture feature in Macintosh computers is accessible from the drop-down
SMART Board tools menu – not from the Floating Tools. When you select either Capture
Screen or Capture Selection, SMART Notebook software automatically launches and the
current annotations plus the application background are saved into the current Notebook file.

Reconfiguring the Floating Tools

You can configure the Floating Tools for your own purposes, changing the individual
properties of each tool in the palette of Floating Tools.
In Windows operating systems, you can customize the tool palette, adding any of a wide
range of tool buttons. And, if many people use a single interactive whiteboard, you can make
and save your own customized Floating Tools in a user profile (see page 23).
To reconfigure the Windows Floating Tools:
1 Double-press on any of the drawing tools in the Floating Tools palette.
A Configure tool settings dialog box will appear.
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