Reconfiguring The Floating Tools - Smart Technologies SMART BOARD User Manual

Clear Annotations
Restore Annotations
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Two Buttons to Note: The Restore/Clear Annotations and Screen
Capture Buttons
One Floating Tools button that deserves special mention is the Restore/Clear Annotations
button. This very useful dual button may in itself justify keeping the Floating Tools constantly
open on your SMART Board. Whenever you write something on the Board, the button is in its
Clear Annotations state; as soon as you delete any of your annotations, the button changes
to Restore Annotations.
Let's say you've written an important note on the Board, but your elbow grazes the Board as
you turn towards your audience: the annotation you just made will disappear. If you press the
Restore Annotations button, 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 in Macintosh, press the SMART Board icon and select
Restore Annotations.
The Screen Capture button (Windows 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 is automatically launched and the current annotations plus the
application background are saved as separate objects in the current Notebook file.
NOTE: The Notebook screen capture feature in Macintosh 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 is automatically launched 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, you can customize the tool palette, adding any of a wide range of tool buttons.
And, if many people use a single SMART Board, you can make and save your own
customized Floating Tools in a user profile (see page 22).
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 will appear.
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