SMART Board User's Guide - Psychology

Saving Pen Tray and Floating Tools Settings as User
Profiles
Windows operating system users may want to save the changes they’ve made to the Pen
Tray tools and Floating Tools in the form of a user profile. This lets multiple users, all with
different tool needs and preferences, tailor the Pen Tray tools and Floating Tools for their
own purposes and never have to repeat the configuration procedure.
Each user profile is stored as a .stls file in the SMART Board software directory on your
hard drive (wherever you installed the software initially). If you want to move a profile from
one computer to another, you can either move the .stls file to a shared network directory or
copy it onto a floppy disk and transfer it physically to the floppy drive on the destination
computer. At this point, you’ll need to copy the .stls file into the destination computer’s
SMART Board software directory.
To save your tools settings as a user profile:
1 Reconfigure the Pen Tray tools or Floating Tools as described on pages 18−21. As
soon as you begin editing the settings, a user profile named Temporary will be
assigned. If you want to keep these settings, we recommend that you save the user
profile under a different name.
2 Select Save As from the User Profiles drop-down list.
A New Profile dialog box will appear. Your system logon name will appear as the
default profile name.
3 Accept the default profile name or type any name you prefer in its place.
4 Press the OK button.
The new profile will appear as the currently selected user profile in the User Profiles
text-entry box.
5 Press the OK button in the SMART Board Control Panel to begin using your new user
profile.
To delete a user profile:
1 Open Windows Explorer and navigate to the SMART Board software directory on your
hard drive. This directory is likely located in your Programs folder.
2 Locate the .stls file (user profile) you’d like to delete.
NOTE: This is more easily accomplished if you group the files by type. Select Details
from the View menu of Explorer. Press the Type button in the bar of buttons at the top
of the file list. The file types will now be listed alphabetically, so you can easily scroll to
the group of .stls files in the directory.
3 Select the .stls file you want to delete and press the Delete key on your keyboard.
Capturing What You Write
In Windows operating systems
After writing over a projected Windows application that is not board-aware, you may want to
capture your annotations. You can accomplish this with the Save/Print toolbar that appears
automatically when you lift a Pen Tray stylus.
Press to capture current screen
(including annotations) to Notebook
Press to capture an area of
your annotations into Notebook
Press to send annotations plus
background to a default printer
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