Using The Floating Tools - Smart Technologies SMART BOARD User Manual

Using the Floating Tools

The Floating Tools offer a portable, customizable palette of tools that floats over all
applications on your SMART Board and allows you to perform a wide variety of operations.
With the Floating Tools open, you have access to the same configurable styluses and eraser
as the Pen Tray tools – in virtual rather than physical form. Press the Pen button, for
example, and your next contact with the SMART Board will produce electronic ink; press the
Eraser button and your next contact will remove electronic ink, just like the equivalent tools in
the physical Pen Tray.
Draw Filled
Rectangle
In addition to these virtual Pen Tray tools, the default Floating Tools palette offers features
you won't find in your Pen Tray, which you may find indispensable: tools for creating a large
screen pointer (for presentations) or a right-mouse click (Windows only), clearing annotations
and restoring cleared annotations.
In Windows, you can edit this palette of tools to add a wide variety of tools. You can also
create your own customized palette in the form of a user profile you can activate each time
you use the SMART Board.
To open and close the Floating Tools:
1 Press on the SMART Board icon and select Floating Tools.
2 Press on the grab handles at the left side of the Floating Tools to move the Floating
Tools to another screen location.
3 Press the Close button in the upper-left corner of the Floating Tools to close them.
Highlighter
Pen
Screen Pointer
Floating Tools
(Windows)
Highlighter
Pen
Line
Rectangle
Eraser
Restore/Clear
Annotations
Floating Tools (Macintosh)
SMART Board User's Guide
Eraser
Right Mouse
Left Mouse
Restore/Clear Annotations
Configure Tools
Circle
Left Mouse
Tip
The Rectangle
(Transparent) button is
ideal for highlighting
large areas of data on
the SMART Board.
Win
Tip
You can quickly
reconfigure the
drawing tools in the
Floating Tools by
double-pressing on the
pen, highlighter or
drawing tool buttons.
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