Drawing Rectangles, Ellipses And Lines In Notebook - Smart Technologies SMART BOARD User Manual

2 Select an appropriate color by pressing the Color button and then pressing on a color
from the 16-color palette.
Alternatively, if you're a Windows user you can select from a 48-color palette by
selecting Current Color from the Format menu, or by pressing on the Current Color
button on the extreme left edge of the Status Bar.
3 You can also select a line width for your freehand annotation by pressing the Line
Width button in the toolbar or choosing Line Width from the Format menu, and then
selecting one of the six displayed widths.
4 Press and drag with the pen cursor, or, if you are working on a projected SMART
Board, touch the Board and drag with your finger or any pointing device to create a
freehand annotation object.
Each continuous stroke created with the pen cursor is treated as a separate object that
can be individually selected and modified, moved, deleted, resized, etc.
5 You can convert what you've written by hand into typed text by selecting the object and
pressing on the letter A that appears in the upper-right corner of the selection box.
To highlight a Notebook object:
1 In Notebook, press the Highlighter button in the toolbar.
or
Select Highlighter from the Draw menu.
When moved over the Notebook workspace, the cursor becomes a highlighter icon.
2 Select color and line width for the highlighter as described in steps 2 and 3 above.
3 Press and drag with the highlighter cursor, or, if you're working on a projected SMART
Board, touch the Board and drag with your finger or any pointing device to create a
freehand annotation object.
Each continuous stroke created with the highlighter cursor is treated as a separate
object that can be individually selected and modified, moved, deleted, resized, etc.

Drawing Rectangles, Ellipses and Lines in Notebook

To create a geometric object:
1 In Notebook, press the Rectangle, Ellipse or Line button in the toolbar.
or
Select Rectangle, Ellipse or Line from the Draw menu.
2 Select color and line width as described in steps 2 and 3 above.
3 Press and drag with the cursor, or, if you're working on a SMART Board, press and
drag with your finger or any pointing device to create the geometric object. Release the
mouse button or lift your finger when you are satisfied with the size of the object.
The object you just created can be selected and modified, moved, deleted, resized,
etc. To delete the object, select it, then select Delete from the Edit menu or press the
Delete button in the toolbar (Windows only). The Pen Tray eraser will not erase this
object.
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Current Color button on
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