Using The Floating Tools At The Interactive Screen - Smart Technologies Smart Board User Manual

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Using the Floating Tools at the Interactive Screen

The Floating Tools palette is a portable toolbar that appears over any open application on your
interactive screen and gives you access to a variety of annotation and presentation tools. To
access these tools, press and hold the SMART Board icon in the Dock and select Open
Floating Tools. Then press the tool you want. Along with a virtual stylus and eraser, and other
unique tools for creating geometric shapes, the Floating Tools palette contains a special button
for clearing annotations or restoring deleted annotations.
NOTE: You must have a SMART interactive product connected to your computer to use the
Floating Tools. However, you can also control these tools with your computer's mouse, as long
as the SMART product is connected.
If you have an interactive whiteboard, pick up a stylus, select a tool from the Floating Tools
palette, and press the interactive screen for electronic ink to appear in the color of the stylus.
This is an easy way to insert a geometric shape in a specific color.
TIP
To restore/clear annotations
Use the Restore Annotations/Clear Annotations button to remove annotations or restore
annotations. When you write something on the interactive screen, the button is in the Clear
Annotations state, but after you delete an annotation, the button changes to the Restore
Annotations state.
This button is especially useful if you accidentally lose an annotation or if you want to view a
deleted annotation again. Even if the Floating Tools aren't open, you can restore the
annotation. To do this, press and hold the SMART Board icon in the Dock, select Open
Floating Tools, and then press the Restore Annotations button.
Macintosh Version
Pen
Line
Rectangle
Eraser
The Rectangle button on the Floating Tools palette is ideal for highlighting
large areas of data on the interactive screen. To do this, configure the
transparency, fill and color properties of the Rectangle tool. Refer to the topic
entitled Changing the Floating Tools in the SMART Board tools Help for full
details.
Writing, Erasing and Capturing with SMART Board Software
Highlighter
Configure Tools
Ellipse
Left-Click
Restore/Clear
Annotations
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