SMART Board User's Guide - Psychology

• Volo View Express software
• AutoVue Professional software
• Microsoft Imaging software
The behavior of four of the most popular board-aware applications – Microsoft Word, Excel,
NetMeeting and Paint software – is briefly described below. For complete details on these
and all other board-aware programs, please read the Aware online Help available in SMART
Board software.
NOTE: The board-aware functionality of PowerPoint software is sufficiently different from that
of the other board-aware programs to warrant a separate discussion. The section of this
manual that follows (Using PowerPoint Software on an Interactive Whiteboard) describes the
unique way you can use PowerPoint software on a SMART Board interactive whiteboard.
Using Word and Excel on an Interactive Whiteboard
Take advantage of the large SMART Board surface to work on Word documents or Excel
spreadsheets with your group and save your annotations in converted-to-text form or as
freeform drawing object.
With Word or Excel and SMART Board tools running, lift up a Pen Tray stylus. The following
Capture/Save toolbar will appear:
Press (Save Annotations button) to save the annotation in its current form. It will appear
as a drawing object inside a frame, which you can easily move elsewhere within the
document or delete. Each pen stroke will be inserted as a separate object. You can use the
Microsoft Word Drawing toolbar to group, arrange and otherwise manipulate the objects. For
more information about the Drawing toolbar, refer to the Microsoft Word Help file.
Press (Save Annotations as Text button) to convert the annotation to text and insert it at
the cursor-insertion point.
Of course, if you prefer to save your annotations without altering your Word or Excel file, you
can capture them into Notebook software instead. To do this, use the Notebook capture
buttons in the Capture/Save toolbar:
NOTES:
Press to insert
annotation as-is
(freeform graphical
object)
Capture screen
into Notebook
Capture region
into Notebook
• Microsoft Word must be in Page Layout view to capture your annotations.
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Press to inject
annotation as text