![]() Windows Ink Sketchpad allows you a minimal number of pens and tools to illustrate your ideas. Microsoft provides options to adjust the line widths and colors, and the ability to crop the image and share it, but that’s about it. Sketchpad offers a few more options: You can choose from among a digital pencil, a pen, and a highlighter. ![]() One thing you can’t configure, however, is the small, hidden secondary button on the Surface Pro 4 and Surface Book stylus-it’s simply not represented in the Settings menu.īoth Sketchpad and Whiteboard skew toward minimalism: Whiteboard supports a pair of pens, a few digital ink colors, plus a “lasso” tool to move ink around. You can modify all these behaviors, if you so choose. Holding it launches Cortana, so you can ask her a question. The Pen menu also lets you configure what happens when you click the “eraser” button on top of the stylus: Clicking it once launches OneNote by default, while double-clicking saves a screenshot. Or you can configure your PC to display a handwriting panel for ink input, instead of displaying a “soft” keyboard, when the keyboard is detached. Several other toggles are optional: For example, you can have your device display a small cursor as your pen tip nears the screen. If you’re a lefty, like I am, setting up your pen for left-handed use will affect the palm rejection and general performance of the pen. Instead, use the left-hand rail and navigate to the Pen settings, which are far more useful. If you own a Surface Pro 4, for example, chances are your pen is already paired and ready for use. Clicking into the Settings menu via the link at the bottom of Ink Workspace takes you to the standard Bluetooth configuration screen. ![]() At this point, that includes Sticky Notes, Sketchpad, and Screen Sketch.įirst, though, it’s worth visiting the Settings menu, where you can configure your digital pen properly. You won’t see any Live Tiles or other notifications in Ink Workspace, but there are several large landing areas to launch pen-specific applications. Think of this as a Start menu for Ink applications. The Windows Ink Workspace puts pen-enabled Windows apps at the top, with more granular settings down below. Click it (using the mouse cursor is fine) and you’ll launch the Windows Ink Workspace. Nothing within Windows 10 insists that you should immediately begin inking, but you’ll probably notice a small icon in the lower-right corner of the screen. (And let’s not forget about the pen-centric, $22,000 Surface Hub aimed at organizations). With Ink, Microsoft is making the pen more central, presumably in an effort to convince consumers they need a pricey, pen-enabled Surface tablet rather than a cheaper, more traditional laptop. If you haven’t actually worked with digital ink before, relax: Windows Ink is an optional way to interact with Windows, in much the same way you can use either voice or keyboard to query Cortana. Many of Microsoft’s existing applications already include pen support in some form or another: Clicking the stylus that’s attached to a Surface Pro 3 or Surface Pro 4, for example, launches a pen-optimized version of Microsoft OneNote. Click the new pen icon to launch the Windows Ink Workspace apps.
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