SMART Technologies Smart Board User manual

Technolo

g

ies Inc.

for Macintosh or Power Macintosh

®®

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Contents

SMART Board™ Overview....................................................................... 1

Creating Notebook Files on the SMART Board ...........................................................1

Using SMART Board Tools ..........................................................................................1

Running Applications on a Projected SMART Board ...................................................3

Board-Aware Applications ............................................................................................3

Hardware Compatibility ................................................................................................4

Online Help...................................................................................................................4

About this Guide...........................................................................................................4

Managing the SMART Board ................................................................... 6

Using a SMART Board with Projection ........................................................................6

Using a SMART Board without Projection ...................................................................8

Accessing SMART Board Commands .........................................................................8

Managing the SMART Board Driver Window...............................................................9

Creating Information on the SMART Board ......................................... 10

Opening, Creating and Saving Notebook Files ..........................................................10

Creating Annotation Objects in Notebook Files .........................................................13

Creating Objects with the Pen Tray Tools..................................................................13

Creating Objects with Notebook Tools.......................................................................13

Writing with Notebook Tools.......................................................................................14

Drawing Rectangles, Ellipses and Lines ....................................................................15

Creating a Notebook Text Box ...................................................................................16

Assigning or Changing Text Attributes.......................................................................17

Automatically Grouping Newly Created Objects ........................................................18

Importing Information into Notebook ...................................................20

Cutting, Copying and Pasting.....................................................................................20

Capturing All or Part of a Screen................................................................................21

Print Capture (Windows Only)....................................................................................24

Activating Print Capture..............................................................................................25

Importing Graphic Files ..............................................................................................26

Importing SMART 2000 Notepad files........................................................................27

Editing Objects on the SMART Board ..................................................29

Selecting Objects .......................................................................................................29

Moving Objects...........................................................................................................31

Grouping and Ungrouping Objects.............................................................................31

Protecting Objects from Further Editing .....................................................................33

Resizing Objects ........................................................................................................34

Contents

Cutting, Copying and Pasting Objects .......................................................................34

Changing Object Attributes ........................................................................................35

Deleting and Erasing Objects.....................................................................................36

Undoing Your Mistakes ..............................................................................................38

Sorting Information on the SMART Board ........................................... 40

Page Sorter View .......................................................................................................40

Presenting Information on the SMART Board ..................................... 42

Customizing the SMART Board Interface for Presentation Purposes .......................42

Notebook Views .........................................................................................................42

Full Screen View ........................................................................................................42

Scale to Fit View.........................................................................................................43

Navigating Through a Notebook Presentation ...........................................................44

Printing and Distributing Information................................................... 45

Printing Notebook Pages............................................................................................45

Sending Notebook Files .............................................................................................48

Using Third-Party Conferencing Applications on the

SMART Board ......................................................................................... 49

Aware with Projected and Non-Projected Boards ......................................................50

Aware Online Help .....................................................................................................50

Running Third-Party Conferencing Applications on the Board ..................................50

Customer Support .................................................................................. 52

Contacting SMART Technical Support ......................................................................52

Other SMART Contacts..............................................................................................52

Warranty.....................................................................................................................52

Appendix A: SMART Board Maintenance............................................. 54

Cleaning the Writing Surface......................................................................................54

Preventing Damage to the Writing Surface................................................................54

Appendix B: Tips and Trouble Shooting .............................................. 55

General Tips for Trouble-Free Performance ..............................................................55

Trouble Shooting: Frequently Asked Questions.........................................................55

Index ........................................................................................................60

SMART Board User’s Guide 1

SMART Board™ Overview

The SMART Board is an interactive, electronic whiteboard, available in a

range of sizes and models that can be used with or without a projector.

When the SMART Board is attached to a computer, it allows you to

collaborate on electronic documents, create a wide variety of annotation

objects, import information from almost any electronic source, and save,

print or e-mail a complete record of any SMART Board meeting. All

notes written on the SMART Board with regular dry erase markers can

be saved to a SMART Notebook™ file.

For information on installing both SMART Board hardware and software

components, refer to the companion manual to this user’s guide, the

SMART Board Installation Guide.

Creating Notebook Files on the SMART

Board

The notes you create on the SMART Board can be hand-written,

graphical or keyboard-input annotation objects. These notes can be

stored as a series of pages in a Notebook file, which can serve a wide

range of purposes.

You can take notes during a meeting, creating a simple record of the

highlights of an informal brainstorming session, then save them for future

reference, print them out for hardcopy distribution or send electronic

copies through your company’s intranet to all attendees.

You can present a complex and visually elaborate presentation prepared

in advance using both SMART Pen Tray™ tools and the drawing, writing

and importing tools available with SMART Notebook. As pages are

viewed and discussed, passages can be highlighted and annotated with

the same tools.

Using SMART Board Tools

Pick up a pen from the Pen Tray and write on the Notebook workspace

area or on top of any Windows

®

or Macintosh

®

application. If you change

your mind or make a mistake, use the Pen Tray eraser to erase it. This is

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the simplest, easiest and most natural method for creating and erasing

Notebook annotations on the SMART Board.

In projected mode, the Pen Tray tools are also fully configurable. Simply

select

Pen Tray Tools

from the

Tools

menu in Notebook or from the

Board

menu in SMART Board driver. The three-tabbed

Configure Pen

Tray Tools

dialog box will appear, enabling you to reconfigure any

aspect of the various Pen Tray tools. Procedures for using and

configuring the Pen Tray tools are fully described in the SMART Board

driver online Help.

Using Notebook Tools

In addition to the Pen Tray tools, a full range of configurable drawing and

writing tools are available from the Notebook toolbars. The annotations

you create with these tools can be selected, moved, resized, or deleted.

You can also change the appearance of Notebook annotations after they

have been created. For example, you can apply a new color scheme or

change the line width of your annotations at any time. Simply select one

or several annotations and then click on the Color or Line Width buttons

in the toolbar to immediately adjust the visual characteristics of the

selected objects.

Using Data Import Tools

Data can be imported into the Notebook in a variety of ways:

•

Cut, copy and paste operations are available to import data to

the clipboard and then to the Notebook.

•

Screen Capture imports a customized screen region, an entire

screen or (in Windows Notebook only) a complete window from

another application into the Notebook. To activate this function,

select

Screen Capture

from the

Tools

menu.

•

Print Capture is a Windows-only Notebook feature that allows

you to print a complete multi-page file from another Windows

application to the end of the current Notebook file. All the pages

of the imported file can be immediately viewed



one printed

page per Notebook page. To activate this function, select

Print

Capture

from the

Tools

menu.

NOTE

The Notebook tools

function independently

of the Pen Tray tools.

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•

Graphic files can be inserted directly into the current Notebook

page via the

Import Picture

command from the

File

menu.

•

If you have SMART 2000 Conferencing



installed, you can

import SMART 2000 Notepad files with the

Import SMART 2000

Notepad

command from the

File

menu.

Running Applications on a Projected SMART

Board

If you project a Macintosh or Windows application on the SMART Board,

the SMART Board driver software enables you to control that application

with your finger (a finger press being equivalent to a mouse click) and

annotate over top of it with the Pen Tray tools, keyboard, or your finger

and then save your annotations to a Notebook file (using Notebook

Screen Capture) for future reference and distribution.

Board-Aware Applications

A Board-aware application is a program written to take advantage of

SMART Board features, recognizing pen or drawing tool marks not as

external annotations but as integral program components. SMART Board

Software supports the following Windows Board-aware applications:

•

SMART Notebook (Versions 1.0 and 1.1) for Macintosh and

Windows

•

SMART 2000 Conferencing



(Version 3.4)

•

SMART Ideas



(Version 1.0)

Running Third-Party Conferencing Applications as

Board-Aware Programs

You can also use the SMART Board to run the leading desktop

conferencing applications as Board-aware programs, integrating SMART

Board functionality, with or without projection, with such conferencing

software as Microsoft NetMeeting™ and Intel™ ProShare™. When

these and other leading conferencing applications are run on the SMART

Board, whatever is written on the Board at one site is communicated to

all conferencing participants. This feature is enabled by the SMART

Aware™ application that runs with the SMART Board driver.

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Hardware Compatibility

The SMART Board driver supports SMART's SC4 and SC5 serial

controllers and multiple SMART Boards. The Windows version of

SMART Board driver is plug-and-play compatible. You can operate

Notebook on up to four non-projected SMART Boards simultaneously. If

you prefer, up to one of these SMART Boards can be run with projection.

Online Help

Extensive Help files are available to provide online assistance. Select

Contents

or

Help Topics

from the

Help

menu of SMART Board driver,

SMART Notebook or SMART Aware to open the Table of Contents for

the online Help system. Topics can be quickly opened from this initial

Table of Contents or from internal Help hotspots.

Context-sensitive Help is also available to provide quick access to Help

topics on commands, screen features and toolbar buttons. In Notebook,

click once on the context-sensitive Help button on the Full or Compact

Toolbar, then click again on an area of the screen to view a related Help

topic. In the SMART Board driver window, press the SHIFT key and the

F1 key, move your cursor to an area of the screen, click once, and a

related Help topic will appear. On other screens and dialogs, simply

press the F1 key, move the cursor and click once.

About this Guide

The first section of this guide tells you how to manage the Board driver

software both with and without a projector. The sections that follow are

organized around the typical tasks performed before, during and after a

SMART Board presentation.

We focus first on using a SMART Board to create both Notebook files

and annotation objects within those files, import information from other

sources, and then sort and edit file contents. You’ll learn how to

effectively use your SMART Board during a presentation and then how

to print and/or send Notebook files to participants or any interested party.

The guide concludes with an overview of how to use six popular third-

party conferencing applications as Board-aware programs on the

SMART Board. Two final appendices provide advice on SMART Board

maintenance and SMART Board troubleshooting tips.

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For full particulars on the use of all available features, commands and

toolbar buttons, read the detailed online Help for both SMART Board

driver (which includes Aware) and SMART Notebook.

Conventions Used

This manual is for both Windows and Macintosh users of SMART Board.

Almost all of the procedures and descriptions in this manual apply to

either system. However, any information that relates solely to Windows

users is accompanied by a window icon (either in the margin or

heading), and information specific to Macintosh users is distinguished by

a similarly placed apple icon.

NOTE

: Procedures common to both Windows and Macintosh are

described in terms of Windows conventions and screen captures.

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Managing the SMART Board

When you initially install SMART Board Software, you are asked if you

are running the SMART Board with or without a projector — that is, in

projected or non-projected mode. This determines whether or not a

check mark subsequently appears beside the

SMART Board has a

projector

toggle in the

Board

menu of SMART Board driver. It is very

important that this toggle accurately reflects the projected or non-

projected status of your SMART Board.

For example, if you are operating the SMART Board without a projector

and discover that writing on the upper portion of the Board causes menu

commands to be activated, the Board driver is likely unaware of the non-

projected status of your SMART Board. Look at

SMART Board has a

projector

in the

Board

menu and ensure that it is deactivated (no check

mark appears beside it).

Projected mode translates Board contact into mouse functionality and

Pen Tray tool use into electronic ink. If you find that the Board is

unresponsive to either contact or Pen Tray use, look at

SMART Board

has a projector

in the

Board

menu and ensure that it is activated (a

check mark appears beside it). If non-projected mode has been

accidentally clicked during SMART Board setup, you can change it to

projected mode by selecting

SMART Board has a projector

from the

Board

menu to toggle the check mark on.

Using a SMART Board with Projection

A projected SMART Board is one that has a computer image projected

on it. As stated above, a SMART Board driver running in projected

mode translates SMART Board contact into mouse functionality, and

Pen Tray tool use into the appearance or disappearance of electronic

ink (writing and erasing). In other words, you write on the projected

SMART Board with virtual, electronic ink rather than physical ink,

using either the SMART styluses or the Pen Tray pens

with their caps

securely on.

If you’re running Notebook on a SMART Board with projection, you

should be aware that SMART Board contact can be configured to

produce a wide range of events. Your finger or any pointing device

If you are using a

projector, the SMART

Board icon in the

System Tray will have

a green screen area,

representing the

projected desktop view

of the computer that is

cast onto the Board

from the projector.

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can produce a left or right mouse click, draw a circle, rectangle, or

straight line, write in 16 differently colored pens or highlighters, or

selectively erase annotations. In projected mode, the default event

produced by Board contact is always a left mouse click.

Orienting a Projected SMART Board

If you are using a projector with your SMART Board, the projected

computer image must be oriented properly on the Board. Without proper

orientation, the cursor will not track your finger or a pointing device

accurately.

Orientation is the first task performed after installing the SMART Board

Software. However, if the SMART Board is accidentally jostled or moved,

you may need to perform the orientation procedure again. The detailed

procedure for orientation is described in the

SMART Board Installation

Guide

and in the online Help for the SMART Board driver.

You can quickly access the orientation and configuration dialogs

by

pressing the two Pen Tray buttons simultaneously (holding them down

for a few seconds). If you are currently unconnected to the SMART

Board, the

Check Board Connections

dialog box will appear. If you are

connected to the SMART Board, the

Pick the Orientation Level

dialog

box will appear.

Alternatively, you can click

twice

on the System Tray icon, located on the

right side of the Task Bar (see the following figure) and the orientation

and configuration dialogs will appear.

REMINDER

If you are running the

SMART Board with a

projector, you must

ensure that the

SMART Board has a

projector

selection in

the

Board

menu is

activated (has a check

mark beside it).

Non-projected

SMART Board icon

Windows 95 Task Bar

Windows 95 System Tray

Windows 95 Task Bar and System Tray

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Using a SMART Board without Projection

In non-projected mode, write on the SMART Board with the pens in the

Pen Tray

with their caps off

as you would on an ordinary whiteboard.

However, unlike an ordinary whiteboard, whatever you write is

simultaneously displayed on your computer screen in the pen color you

selected. Use the Pen Tray eraser to erase both the dry erase marker on

the Board and the electronic ink on your monitor. When all the Pen Tray

tools are in place, contact with the Board has the effect of erasing

electronic ink with a small eraser.

We also recommend that you use the Notebook Scale to Fit view in non-

projected mode. Scale to Fit accommodates the entire Board workspace

without the need for scrolling, ensuring that whatever you write on the

Board will be displayed on your monitor. Select the

Scale to Fit

command from the

View

menu of Notebook.

NOTE:

If you are using SMART Board driver without projection, you

must ensure that the

SMART Board has a projector

selection in the

Board

menu is deactivated (does

not

have a check mark beside it).

Otherwise, when you write anywhere outside of a Board-aware

application workspace with dry erase ink, you may inadvertently activate

menu commands or other system elements with mouse clicks. If

projected mode has been accidentally clicked during SMART Board

setup, you can change it to non-projected mode by selecting

SMART

Board has a projector

from the

Board

menu to toggle the check mark

off.

Accessing SMART Board Commands

The SMART Board driver window is a point of entry for accessing

commands from the

Board

menu. Among other functions, the Board

commands allow you to select the port for the SMART Board, select

projected or non-projected status, orient the SMART Board, configure

the Pen Tray tools, and access the floating tool palette, the error log and

online Help.

The Board commands –

Orient Board

,

Pen Tray Settings

,

Aware

Settings

,

Floating Tools

,

Error Log

,

SMART Board has a Projector

and

Exit

– are also available (in Windows only) with a right mouse click

on the SMART Board icon in the System Tray, as described below.

If you are using the

SMART Board without

projection, the SMART

Board icon in the

System Tray will have

a white screen area,

representing the

whiteboard

appearance of a

SMART Board that

does not have a

projected image cast

on it.

NOTE

You can also access

the Board commands

for orienting, selecting

COM ports, and

configuring Pen Tray

tools from the

Tools

menu in Notebook.

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To access SMART Board commands with a right mouse

click:

Press the Right Mouse button on the Pen Tray, then press the SMART

Board icon in the System Tray.

or

Use the mouse attached to your computer to right mouse click on the

SMART Board icon in the System Tray.

or

Click the Right Mouse button in the SMART Board driver Floating Tool

Palette, then touch the SMART Board icon in the System Tray.

Managing the SMART Board Driver Window

When you start running the SMART Board driver software in Windows,

the Board driver window will appear briefly while the driver software

completes its connection with the Pen Tray. After this connection has

been made, the window will automatically minimize to a SMART Board

icon in the System Tray and, if you wish, to an item in the Task Bar as

well.

To make the Board driver window reappear:

Click once on the SMART Board System Tray icon.

To minimize the Board driver window to a System Tray icon again:

Click once on the Close button in the Board driver Title Bar.

To minimize the Board driver window to an item in the Task Bar:

Click once on the Minimize button in the Board driver Title Bar.

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Creating Information on the SMART

Board

The SMART Notebook program allows you to create, edit, save, present

and distribute information on the SMART Board in the form of Notebook

files.

Managing these files is very much like managing files in any other

application. You can create new Notebook files, save files you are

currently working on for later viewing and revision, print all or part of

these files or send them electronically

to others. You can also have

Notebook files saved automatically as you work at intervals that you

specify.

The procedures for printing and sending Notebook files are described in

the section of this guide entitled “Printing and Distributing Information” on

page 47. In this section, you will learn to:

•

open, create, and save Notebook files

•

enable the autosave feature

•

create annotation objects within Notebook files with the Pen Tray

tools and the Notebook tools

•

reconfigure the visual attributes of the annotation objects

•

enable automatic grouping of these objects with SMART

Grouping™

Opening, Creating and Saving Notebook

Files

To open an existing Windows Notebook:

1. Select

Open

Notebook

from the

File

menu.

or

Click the Open button on the Full or Compact Toolbar.

or

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Press Ctrl + O.

An

Open

dialog box will appear.

2. To change the directory from the default folder, go to

Look In

,

click the down arrow beside the default directory name, and

select the directory in which the file you want to open is stored.

3. Type or select the file name of the Notebook file you want to

open in

File Name

.

NOTE

: All files with .nbk extensions located in the default or the

selected directory are listed.

4. Click the Open

button.

or

Double-click on the Notebook file you want to open.

The selected Notebook file will appear.

To open an existing Macintosh Notebook File:

1. Select

Open

Notebook

from the

File

menu.

or

Click the Open button on the Full or Compact Toolbar.

or

Press

+ O

The

Open

dialog box will appear.

2. To change the directory from the default, click on the down arrow

beside the default directory name, and select the directory in

which the file you want to open is stored.

3. In the list of files for the selected directory, type or select the file

name of the Notebook file you want to open.

4. Click the Open button.

or

Double-click on the Notebook file you want to open.

The selected Notebook file will appear.

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To create a new Notebook:

1. Select

New Notebook

from the

File

menu.

or

Click the New Notebook button on the Full or Compact Toolbar.

or

Press Ctrl + N.

The blank workspace represents the first page of the newly

created Notebook file.

2. After completing your entries for the current session, name the

new Notebook file (with the .nbk extension) and specify a drive

and directory for storage in the

Save As

dialog box.

To save an open Notebook:

Select

Save

from the

File

menu.

or

Click the Save button on the Full or Compact Toolbar.

or

Press Ctrl + S.

To save a Notebook under a new name:

1. Select

Save As

from the

File

menu.

The

Save As

dialog box will appear.

2. In the

File name

dialog box, type in a name.

The new Notebook will be automatically saved in the current

directory and drive unless you specify otherwise, as follows.

3. To store the new Notebook in a different directory and drive,

click the scroll arrow in the

Save in

box and select the directory

and drive in which you want to store the new Notebook.

To enable Notebook Autosave:

1. Select

Options

from the

Tools

menu.

The

SMART Notebook Options dialog

box will appear.

2. Click the

Saving

tab.

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3. Click the

Enable Autosave

check box.

4. Select the time in minutes you would like to elapse between

automatic file saves from the

Save File Every

drop-down scroll

box.

5. Click OK.

Creating Annotation Objects in Notebook

Files

You can create or erase annotation objects with the aid of the pens,

buttons and eraser on the Pen Tray, with the various

tools available from

Notebook

or a combination of both methods.

Creating Objects with the Pen Tray Tools

If you are running Notebook on a SMART Board, use the Pen Tray tools

to create or erase objects. This is the simplest, easiest and most natural

method of creating annotations on the SMART Board. You can also use

the Pen Tray buttons to move to the next page or perform right mouse

clicks.

If you are using the SMART Board with a projector, the Pen Tray pens,

buttons and eraser can be reconfigured by selecting the

Configure

SMART Board Pens

command from the

Tools

menu. The three-tabbed

Configure Pen Tray Tools

dialog box will appear, enabling you to

reconfigure any aspect of the various Pen Tray tools. Procedures for

using and configuring the Pen Tray tools are fully described in the

SMART Board driver online Help.

Creating Objects with Notebook Tools

You can also use the various toolbar buttons in Notebook to create

annotation objects. These objects can be blocks of keyboard-entered

text, freehand writing or drawings, or ellipses, lines or rectangles.

The first step in creating an object from a Notebook toolbar is to either

click on the appropriate toolbar button or select the tool from the pull-

down

Draw

menu. The second step is to select visual attributes for that

14 SMART Board User’s Guide

tool

−

such as color, line width, font and font characteristics

−

with the

color, line or font tools.

Notebook objects can be configured in a wide array of colors, fonts and

widths either before or after they have been created. In addition, objects

can be selected and then resized, moved, grouped or ungrouped, and

cut, copied and pasted with ease. For more information on these

operations, see the section entitled “Editing Objects on the SMART

Board” on page 29.

Objects you create within a specified area or time can be automatically

grouped with other objects created within the same time or spatial frame.

This feature is called SMART Grouping.

Writing with Notebook Tools

You can use the tools available from the Notebook toolbars to create

Notebook annotations. You can change both the color and line width of

these annotations either at the time of their creation or later.

To create a freehand object with the Pen Tool:

1. Click the Pen button in the Full Toolbars.

or

Select

Pen

from the

Draw

menu.

When moved over the Notebook canvas, the cursor becomes a

pen icon.

2. Select an appropriate color by clicking the Color button, and then

clicking on a color from the resulting palette. You can also select

a line width for your freehand annotation by clicking first on the

Line Width button, and then on one of the 6 displayed widths.

3. Click and drag with the pen cursor, or, if you are working on a

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.

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To configure a Pen Tray pen as a highlighter:

1. Select

Pen Tray Settings

from the

Board

menu.

The

Configure Pen Tray Tools

dialog box will appear. This is a

tabbed box, containing 3 tabs, which will appear opened at the

Pens

tab.

2. Select the Pen Tray pen you want to configure from the

Pen

list.

3. To change the selected pen to a highlighter, click the box beside

Highlighter.

4. To change the color of the selected pen or highlighter, click any one

of the 16 colors under

Colors

.

5. To change the width of the selected pen or highlighter (the

default is 2 pixels), scroll up or down in the

Width

box scroll bar

to increase or decrease line width. The width range is from 1 to

32 pixels.

You will see a preview of the selected color and width in the

Sample

box.

6. Click on the Apply button to activate the new selection.

7. Click on the OK

button to activate the new selection and quit the

dialog box, returning to the initial SMART Board screen.

NOTE

: To quickly return to the original default settings (for color,

width and highlighter), simply press the Defaults button on the

Pens

tab of the

Configure Pen Tray Tool

dialog box. If you had

reconfigured the black pen as a violet highlighter with a width of

10 pixels, for example, it would immediately return to its original

configuration as a black pen with a width of 2 pixels.

Drawing Rectangles, Ellipses and Lines

To create a geometric object:

1. In Notebook, click on the Rectangle,

Ellipse or Line button in the Full

Toolbars.

or

Select

Rectangle, Ellipse,

or

Line

from

the

Draw

menu.

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2. Select an appropriate color by clicking on the Color button, and

then clicking on a color from the resulting palette. You can also

select a line width by clicking first on the Line Width button, and

then on one of the six displayed widths.

3. Click and drag with the cursor, or, if you are 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. You cannot, however, use the Pen

Tray eraser to erase it. First select the object, then activate the

Delete command or press the Delete key. See “Editing Objects

on the SMART Board” on page 29 for more information on

editing operations.

Using a Pen Tray pen as a drawing tool:

1. Select a pen from the Pen Tray.

2. Tap on the Rectangle, Line or Ellipse button, the Line button on

the SMART Board driver Floating Tool Palette with the pen.

3. Move the pen across the Board to create the geometric shape

you selected.

The shape will appear in the same color as the selected pen.

Creating a Notebook Text Box

When you use the Text Tool, you can either use the default standard

Text Box size or click and drag to create a custom-sized Text Box. You

should make the box the approximate width of the text you are adding.

The text will automatically wrap at the right boundary, so it remains

within the width you’ve established.

You can resize a Text Box after you’ve created it, but the text inside will

remain the same size. The text will, however, rewrap according to the

new box width.

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