Convert Ink To Text Onenote For Mac

People are more overwhelmed than ever by how much they need to remember on a daily basis. In fact, according to a 2013 survey commissioned by the Post-it brand, the average person forgets 4 important things every day, or 1460 things every year. That’s a lot of valuable information! The fact is, keeping track of everything so that it is where you want it, when you want it is still an unsolved problem for many.

OneNote can help you keep track of life and stay organized by making it easy to capture anything, enrich and organize it, and eventually recall it when and where you need it.

Today, we’re introducing two big improvements for capturing content into OneNote and enriching that content to make it easier to recall. First, we’ve added handwriting to OneNote for iPad. This has been a top requested feature, and is now available in OneNote across all of the most popular platforms, including our favorite, the Surface Pro 3. Second, we’ve added optical character recognition (OCR), which enables text search within all images that are added to notebooks saved on OneDrive. OCR works with any version of OneNote, from Windows Phone to Mac, even OneNote Online!

Capture: Handwriting and drawing for iPad

As many of you have pointed out, one major feature that has been missing from OneNote for iPad is handwriting. With today’s update, you can pen notes in all OneNote apps for tablets, including OneNote, OneNote for Windows Store, OneNote for Android and now OneNote for iPad.

On my desktop the convert ink to text button is present but does nothing. On my laptop, the ink to text button works, and there is an ink to math button - which is not present on my desktop. I ran across a forum that said you have to turn on tablet PC components for the ink to work in OneNote. OneNote 2019 for Mac OneNote 2016 for Mac More. Less While Macs don’t have a touchscreen, you can use your mouse or trackpad with OneNote for Mac to write notes, highlight portions of text, or draw shapes anywhere on a page. Oct 30, 2017  Question: Q: convert handwriting to text using OneNote. Thanks but there is no 'Ink to text' icon or option displayed on the screen. But I've just written several pages of notes and apparently can't convert it to text on OneNote for Mac at all; the text is apparently searchable but OneNote does not recognize many.

To get started on iPad, just tap the new Draw tab on the ribbon. Select a pen, marker, or highlighter and write, sketch or doodle until your heart’s content.

OneNote for Windows has supported inking since 2003, and we’re constantly working to make our interface more natural for note-takers. OneNote for iPad reflects lessons we’ve learned over the years from studying and understanding how people use pens. For example, when you look at the Draw tab, you might notice that color plays an important role. We have continually found that serious note-takers just love their colors. And not-so-serious note-takers like them too!

Many students color-code their notes in class. They’ll take a paper notebook and an array of colored pens with them to class to write, circle, highlight and underline in a variety of colors. So in OneNote for iPad, we give you four classic pen colors front-and-center. And if that’s not enough, just tap the color wheel to display 16 more! Surely you’ll find your favorite.

OneNote also gives you the benefit of an endless digital canvas. When you’re writing, you’ll never run out of space. OneNote automatically expands pages as you type or write so you always have more room for fresh ideas. When you’re writing, just use two fingers to scroll the page. And unlike paper, you can pinch to zoom in and to work on the small details, or zoom out to get the big picture.

If you have a stylus, go ahead and just rest your hand on the screen as you write. OneNote for iPad detects your palm so that you can write without worrying. The best part? It works with any stylus whether you’re left-handed or right-handed. To set it up, just tap Palm Rejection on the ribbon and then tap the image that most closely resembles how you normally hold a pen.

Enrich and Recall: Search for text within images

More and more, people are capturing images of receipts, recipes, menus and shopping lists into OneNote with mobile scanner apps like Office Lens and Genius Scan. In addition, people often use the share extension to capture websites, PDFs and phone screenshots.

With today’s update, text within any image inserted into a notebook saved on OneDrive will be searchable in OneNote on all PCs, phones and tablets, as well as OneNote Online. Once added, the OneNote service will process it and it will start showing up in search results typically within a few minutes.

OneNote recognizes printed text in many languages, and we’re continuously adding support for more. To try it out, just add a picture that contains text to any notebook saved on OneDrive. About five minutes later, you’ll be able to use OneNote to find the image using search. And OCR isn’t limited to iPhone and iPad—it works on any OneNote client, even OneNote Online!

In the coming months, you can expect OneDrive for Business support and the ability to search images from your older notes too.

Your feedback is important

This is just the beginning for our improvements in handwriting and OCR. We are committed to continually making these and other features better. Please give us your feedback in the comments below or on our Feedback and Suggestions site.

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On a touch-enabled device, draw with your finger, a digital pen, or a mouse.

Available inking features depend on the type of device you're using and which version of Office you're using.

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Please start by choosing your version of Office:

Which version of Office for Windows are you using?
  • Which version of Office for Windows are you using?

If your device is touch-enabled, the Draw tab is turned on automatically. Otherwise, turn it on by selecting File > Options > Customize Ribbon > Draw.

Write, draw, or highlight text

The new pen set is customizable and portable. You define the pens you want to have, and they are then available in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

  1. On the Draw tab of the Ribbon, tap a pen to select it.

    In Word, you must be in Print layout to draw with ink. If the Draw tab is grayed out so that you can't select a pen, go the View tab and select Print Layout.

    In Outlook, first tap the body of the message and insert a drawing canvas ; then you can select a pen to draw with.

  2. Tap again to open the menu of Thickness and Color options for the pen. Select your preferred size and color.

    • There are five pen thickness settings ranging from .25 mm to 3.5 mm. Select a thickness or use the plus or minus sign to make your pen thicker or thinner.

    • Sixteen solid colors are available on the menu, with more available when you tap More Colors.

    • Eight effects are also available: Rainbow, Galaxy, Lava, Ocean, Rose Gold, Gold, Silver, and Bronze.

  3. A Pencil texture is also available:

    When you draw with the Pencil texture while using a supported digital stylus, you can tilt the stylus to get a 'shading' effect, just like you would get with a real pencil.

  4. On the touch screen, begin writing or drawing.

    Once you have drawn an ink shape, it behaves like any shape that you are used to working with in Office. You can select the shape, then you can move or copy it, change its color, pivot its position, and so on.

  5. To stop inking and select your annotations, either to modify or move them, select Draw on the Draw tab.

Convert ink to text or shapes

Word or Excel: See Convert ink to shapes in Office

PowerPoint: See Convert ink to text or shapes in PowerPoint for Office 365.

More features

Select a heading below to open it and see the detailed instructions.

  1. Under Draw > Tools, tap the Eraser.

    (In PowerPoint for Office 365, you can choose from different sizes of erasers. Word has three eraser options. Tap the down arrow on the Eraser button to pick the eraser that you want.)

  2. With your pen or finger, drag the eraser over the ink you want to remove.

    With the Segment Eraser in PowerPoint, you can simply tap a segment of ink or drag across it to remove it (rather than having to thoroughly wipe away the entire segment). Dragging across segments is an easy way to erase several at once.

Some active pens, such as the Surface pen, have an eraser that you can also use to erase digital ink.

Select parts of an ink drawing or written words

All apps include a Draw tool on the Draw tab of the Ribbon for switching between inking mode and selection mode.

PowerPoint and Excel also have an ink selection tool, Lasso Select, specifically for selecting objects drawn with ink. It's most useful when you have a mixture of standard and ink objects and you only want to select an ink object.

Applies only to PowerPoint and Excel:

To select part of a drawing or words written in ink, use the Lasso Select tool. (This tool can't select non-ink objects—that is, shapes, pictures, etc.)

  1. Under Draw > Tools on the Ribbon, tap Lasso Select .

  2. With your pen or finger, drag to draw a circle around the part of the drawing or word that you want to select. A faded, dashed selection region appears around it, and when you're done, the portion you lassoed is selected. Then you can manipulate that object as you wish: move it, change its color, and so on.

In both Excel and PowerPoint, with a digital pen, you can select an area without even tapping the selection tool on the ribbon. Use the supported digital pen button to Lasso Select ink without visiting the ribbon. Then you can use the pen to move, resize, or rotate the ink object.

Turn off automatic inking in a desktop app

  1. On the File menu, select Options, and then select Advanced.

  2. In the Pen section, select the box next to Use pen to select and interact with content by default.

This setting only applies to the app in which you make it, so, for example, you can have automatic inking turned on in Visio and turned off in Word.

Other digital ink features

Feature name

Description

See

Ink Editor

Use touch or a digital pen with Windows digital ink to edit documents

Ink to Text or Shape

Convert an ink drawing to standard text or a standard Office graphic shape

Ink to Shape

Convert an ink drawing to a standard Office graphic shape

Ink to Math

Use touch or a digital pen to write a complex math equation, and then convert it to text

Ink Replay

Replay a series of inking actions on a slide

Ruler

Draw straight lines in ink, or align a set of objects

Draw with ink in a notebook

Hand-write notes and draw or sketch pictures

OneNote for Windows 10: Write notes and draw in OneNote

OneNote 2016, 2013, 2010, or 2007: Draw and sketch notes on a page

OneNote for Mac: Draw and annotate with ink

OneNote for the web: Draw and sketch notes on a page

Language support

See which languages are supported by Ink Editor (in Word) and the ink-to-text converter (in PowerPoint)

If your device is touch-enabled, the Draw tab is turned on automatically. Otherwise, turn it on by selecting File > Options > Customize Ribbon > Draw.

Write, draw, or highlight text

The new pen set is customizable and portable. You define the pens you want to have, and they are then available in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

  1. On the Draw tab of the Ribbon, tap a pen to select it.

    In Word, you must be in Print layout to draw with ink. If the Draw tab is grayed out so that you can't select a pen, go the View tab and select Print Layout.

  2. Tap again to open the menu of Thickness and Color options for the pen. Select your preferred size and color.

    • There are five pen thickness settings ranging from .25 mm to 3.5 mm. Select a thickness or use the plus or minus sign to make your pen thicker or thinner.

    • Sixteen solid colors are available on the menu, with more available when you tap More Colors.

  3. A Pencil texture is also available:

    When you draw with the Pencil texture while using a supported digital stylus, you can tilt the stylus to get a 'shading' effect, just like you would get with a real pencil.

  4. On the touch screen, begin writing or drawing.

    Once you have drawn an ink shape, it behaves like any shape that you are used to working with in Office. You can select the shape, then you can move or copy it, change its color, pivot its position, and so on.

  5. To stop inking and select your annotations, either to modify or move them, pick Select on the Draw tab.

Convert ink to text or shapes

See Convert ink to text or shapes in PowerPoint for Office 365.

More features

Select a heading below to open it and see the detailed instructions.

  1. Under Draw > Tools, tap the Eraser.

    (In PowerPoint for Office 365, you can choose from four erasers. Tap the down arrow on the Eraser button to pick the eraser that you want.)

  2. With your pen or finger, drag the eraser over the ink you want to remove.

    With the Segment Eraser in PowerPoint, you can simply tap a segment of ink or drag across it to remove it (rather than having to thoroughly wipe away the entire segment). Dragging across segments is an easy way to erase several at once.

Some active pens, such as the Surface pen, have an eraser that you can also use to erase digital ink.

Select parts of an ink drawing or written words

When you've been drawing with ink, you can use Stop Inking on the Draw tab to change the mouse pointer back to a standard selection tool . The selection tool can select both digital ink drawings and any other kinds objects.

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PowerPoint and Excel also have an ink selection tool, Lasso Select, specifically for selecting objects drawn with ink. It's most useful when you have a mixture of standard and ink objects and you only want to select an ink object.

Applies only to PowerPoint and Excel:

To select part of a drawing or words written in ink, use the Lasso Select tool. (This tool can't select non-ink objects—that is, shapes, pictures, etc.)

  1. Under Draw > Tools on the Ribbon, tap Lasso Select .

  2. With your pen or finger, drag to draw a circle around the part of the drawing or word that you want to select. A faded, dashed selection region appears around it, and when you're done, the portion you lassoed is selected. Then you can manipulate that object as you wish: move it, change its color, and so on.

In both Excel and PowerPoint, with a digital pen, you can select an area without even tapping the selection tool on the ribbon. Use the supported digital pen button to Lasso Select ink without visiting the ribbon. Then you can use the pen to move, resize, or rotate the ink object.

Turn off automatic inking in a desktop app

  1. Select File > Options > Advanced.

  2. In the Pen section, select the box next to Use pen to select and interact with content by default.

This setting only applies to the app in which you make it. So, for example, you can have automatic inking turned on in Visio and turned off in Word.

Other digital ink features

Feature name

Description

See

Ink Editor

Use touch or a digital pen with Windows digital ink to edit documents

Ink to Shape

Convert an ink drawing to a standard Office graphic shape

Ink to Math

Use touch or a digital pen to write a complex math equation, and then convert it to text

Ruler

Draw straight lines in ink, or align a set of objects

Find the drawing tools

Go to the Review tab and select Start Inking to display the Ink Tools and Pens tab.

Write or draw

  1. Under Ink Tools >Pens choose Pen.

  2. To change the ink color and stroke width, point to the color and width (0.35mm - 0.5mm) you want.

  3. On the touch screen, begin writing or drawing.

Highlight text

  1. Under Ink Tools, on the Pens tab, click Highlighter, and then pick a highlight color.

  2. Point and drag your pen or finger over the text that you want to highlight.

    You can highlight text in Excel, Word, and Outlook, but PowerPoint doesn't support highlighting text.

Delete whole written words or ink drawings

  1. Under Ink Tools, on the Pens tab, click the arrow below Eraser, and then pick an eraser size.

  2. With your pen or finger, select the word or ink drawing that you want to erase.

Drawing in OneNote

If you're using OneNote and want to draw, see these other articles:

OneNote for Windows 10: Write notes and draw in OneNote

OneNote: Draw and sketch notes on a page

OneNote for the web: Draw and sketch notes on a page

Extra features in PowerPoint

Select parts of an ink drawing or written words (PowerPoint only)

To select part of a drawing or some written words, use the Lasso tool. (You cannot use the Lasso tool to select non-ink objects (shapes, pictures, etc.).

  1. Under Ink Tools, on the Pens tab, click Lasso Select.

  2. With your pen or finger, drag to draw a circle around the part of the drawing or word that you want to select. A faded, dashed selection region appears around it, and when you're done, the portion you lassoed will be selected.

Delete parts of an ink drawing or parts of written words (PowerPoint only)

  1. Under Ink Tools, on the Pens tab, click the arrow below Eraser, and then pick an eraser size.

  2. With your pen or finger, select parts of the ink drawing or text that you want to erase.

Convert ink drawings to shapes (PowerPoint only)

You can convert ink drawings on a touch screen into common shapes.

  1. Under Ink Tools > Pens, select Convert to Shapes.

  2. With a pen or your finger, draw a shape on the slide, and PowerPoint automatically converts your drawing to the shape that looks most like it.

    To stop converting shapes, click Convert to Shapes again.

Which shapes can PowerPoint convert?

When you create an ink drawing, PowerPoint can convert it to the shape that is most like it.

Ink drawing

Corresponding shape

Rectangle

Rectangle

Square

Rectangle with all sides equal

Diamond

Diamond

Parallelogram

Parallelogram

Trapezoid

Trapezoid

Irregular quadrilateral

Closed freeform shape with four sides

Regular pentagon

Pentagon with all sides equal

Regular hexagon

Hexagon with all sides equal

Ellipse

Ellipse

Circle

Ellipse with shape height and width equal

Single-headed arrow

Arrow

Double-headed arrow

Double arrow

Arrows connecting two shapes

Arrow connectors

Right triangle

Triangle with right angle

Equilateral triangle

Triangle with all sides equal

Isosceles triangle

Triangle with two equal sides

Irregular triangle

Closed freeform with three sides.

For more information about using Office with Windows touch devices, see the following:

Write, draw, or highlight text

On the Mac, these features are only available in Office 365 and Office 2019 for Mac.

  1. On the Draw tab of the Ribbon, tap a pen to select it.

  2. Tap again to open the menu of Thickness and Color options for the pen. Select your preferred size and color.

    • There are five pen thickness settings ranging from .25 mm to 3.5 mm. Select a thickness to make your pen thicker or thinner.

    • Sixteen solid colors are available on the menu, with more available when you tap More Colors.

    • Eight effects are also available: Rainbow, Galaxy, Lava, Ocean, Rose Gold, Gold, Silver, and Bronze.

  3. A Pencil texture is also available:

    When you draw with the Pencil texture while using a supported digital stylus, you can tilt the stylus to get a 'shading' effect, just like you would get with a real pencil.

  4. Once you have drawn an ink shape, it behaves like any shape that you are used to working with in Office. You can select the shape, then you can move or copy it, change its color, pivot its position, and so on.

  5. To stop inking and select your annotations, either to modify or move them, undo the selection of the Draw button on the Draw tab.

Touch drawing with a trackpad

Rather than drawing ink with your mouse, you can draw on a trackpad with your finger. See Use your trackpad for 'touch' drawing for more information.

Erase ink

  1. Under Draw > Tools, tap the Eraser.

    (In PowerPoint for Office 365 for Mac, you can choose from different sizes of erasers. Word has three eraser options (version 16.28 or newer). Tap the down arrow on the Eraser button to pick the eraser that you want.)

  2. With your mouse, pen, or finger, drag the eraser over the ink you want to remove.

Additional procedures

Select a heading below to open it and see the detailed instructions.

PowerPoint and Excel also have an ink selection tool, Lasso Select, specifically for selecting objects drawn with ink. It's most useful when you have a mixture of standard and ink objects and you only want to select an ink object.

Applies only to PowerPoint and Excel:

To select part of a drawing or words written in ink, use the Lasso Select tool. (This tool can't select non-ink objects—that is, shapes, pictures, etc.)

  1. Under Draw > Tools on the Ribbon, tap Lasso Select .

  2. With your mouse, pen, or finger, drag to draw a circle around the part of the drawing or word that you want to select. A faded, dashed selection region appears around it, and when you're done, the portion you lassoed is selected. Then you can manipulate that object as you wish: move it, change its color, and so on.

Turn on automatic inking

  1. On the PowerPoint, Word, or Excel menu, select Preferences > Authoring and Proofing Tools > General.

  2. In the Pen section, clear the box next to Use pen to select and interact with content by default.

This setting only applies to the current app. So, for example, you can have automatic inking turned on in Excel and turned off in Word.

Basic inking tools

Word for iOS, Excel for iOS, and PowerPoint for iOS all come with basic inking options on the Draw tab: a selection tool, a draw-with-touch tool, a stroke eraser, pens, multiple ink colors, and ink thickness options:

If you're working in OneNote on your iPad, see Handwrite, draw, and sketch.

Draw or write

By default, Draw with Mouse or Touch (or 'Inking mode') is turned on when you are using a mobile device. Just tap the Draw tab, select a pen , and you can begin drawing ink on a slide.

To change the settings on a pen:

  1. Tap again to open the menu of thickness and color options for the pen. Select your preferred size and color:

    • There are five pen thickness settings ranging from .25 mm to 3.5 mm. Select a thickness or use the plus or minus sign to make your pen thicker or thinner.

    • Sixteen solid colors are available on the menu, with more available when you tap More Ink Colors.

    • (For Office 365 subscribers only) Eight effects are also available: Rainbow, Galaxy, Lava, Ocean, Rose Gold, Gold, Silver, and Bronze.

    A Pencil texture is now available:

    The Apple Pencil is sensitive to pressure, which allows you to vary line thickness. It's also sensitive to tilt, which allows you to create shading, as you can with a tilted lead pencil.

  2. On the touch screen, begin writing or drawing.

    Once you have drawn an ink shape, it behaves like any shape that you are used to working with in Office. You can select the shape, then you can move or copy it, change its color, pivot its position, and so on.

  3. To stop inking and select your annotations, either to modify or move them, turn off Draw with Touch on the Draw tab. Turning off this feature also keeps you from making accidental ink marks when your hand touches the screen.

Watch a video overview of the inking features in iPhone and iPad:

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Select

On an iOS device, Inking mode is turned on when you have selected a pen or highlighter on the Draw tab. Otherwise, you are in Select mode, and you can tap to select an object.

(If you're using an Apple Pencil on an iPad Pro device, you can make Select mode the default by going to app settings.)

PowerPoint and Excel have an ink selection tool, Lasso Select, specifically for selecting objects drawn with ink. It's most useful when you have a mixture of standard and ink objects on a slide and you only want to select an ink object.

To select part of a drawing or words written in ink in PowerPoint or Excel, use the Lasso Select tool:

  1. On the Draw tab on the Ribbon, tap Lasso Select .

  2. With your pen or finger, drag to encircle the ink that you want to select.

    A faded, dashed selection region appears as you drag, and when you're done, the portion you've lassoed is selected. Then you can manipulate that object as you wish: move it, copy it, delete it, and so on.

Erase

  1. On the Draw tab, tap the Eraser.

    Word has three erasers to choose from—a stroke eraser, a small eraser, or a medium eraser. Tap the down arrow on the Eraser button to pick the eraser that you want.

    PowerPoint has those three erasers plus one more: With the Segment Eraser, you can simply tap a segment of ink or drag across it to remove it (rather than having to thoroughly wipe away the entire segment). Dragging across segments is an easy way to erase several at once.

  2. Drag the eraser over the ink you want to remove.

Switch tools with the new Apple Pencil

This feature is available to Office 365 Subscribers only.

Office for iOS supports the 2nd-generation Apple Pencil and its double-tap gesture. By default, the double-tap gesture switches from the current tool to the eraser, but the System settings on your device allow you to choose a different behavior for this gesture. This feature is available to Office 365 subscribers in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint on iPad version 2.22.19020201 and later.

Turn off automatic inking

  1. Open the Settings app from the home screen of your iOS device.

  2. Scroll through the list of apps at the bottom of the Settings page to find your Office app, and tap to open its Settings.

  3. In the app settings on the right side, at the bottom under Draw and Annotate, toggle Apple Pencil Always Draws Ink.

For more information, see Turn off automatic inking on iOS.

Convert ink drawings to standard shapes in PowerPoint

In PowerPoint, you can convert ink drawings on a touch screen into common shapes:

  1. Ensure that Draw with Mouse or Touch is turned on.

  2. Tap Ink to Shapes

  3. With a pen or your finger, draw a shape on the slide. When you finish drawing, PowerPoint automatically converts your drawing to the shape that looks most like it.

    To stop converting shapes, tap Ink to Shapes again.

Basic inking tools

Word for Android, Excel for Android, and PowerPoint for Android all come with basic inking options on the Draw tab: a selection tool, a draw-with-touch tool, a stroke eraser, pens, ink colors and a color wheel, and ink thickness options:

Draw or write

By default, Draw with Mouse or Touch (or 'Inking mode') is turned on when you are using a mobile device. Just tap the Draw tab, select a pen , and you can begin drawing ink on a slide.

Select

On an Android device, Inking mode is turned on when you have selected a pen or highlighter on the Draw tab. Otherwise, you are in Select mode, and you can tap to select an object.

PowerPoint and Excel have an ink selection tool, Lasso Select, specifically for selecting ink drawings. It's most useful when you have a mixture of standard and ink objects and you only want to select an ink object.

To select part of a drawing or words written in ink in PowerPoint or Excel, use the Lasso Select tool.

  1. On the Draw tab on the Ribbon, tap Lasso Select .

  2. With your pen or finger, drag to encircle the ink that you want to select.

    A faded, dashed selection region appears as you drag, and when you're done, the portion you've lassoed is selected. Then you can manipulate that object as you wish: move it, copy it, delete it, and so on.

Erase

  1. On the Draw tab, tap the Eraser.

    (In PowerPoint, you can choose from three erasers—a stroke eraser, or a small or medium eraser. Tap the down arrow on the Eraser button to pick the eraser that you want.)

  2. Drag the eraser over the ink you want to remove.

Some active pens, such as the Surface pen, have an eraser that you can also use to erase digital ink without having to select an eraser from the Ribbon.

Convert ink drawings to standard shapes in PowerPoint

In PowerPoint, you can convert ink drawings on a touch screen into common shapes:

  1. Ensure that Draw with Mouse or Touch is turned on.

  2. Tap Ink to Shapes

  3. With a pen or your finger, draw a shape on the slide. When you finish drawing, PowerPoint automatically converts your drawing to the shape that looks most like it.

    To stop converting shapes, tap Ink to Shapes again.

Annotate with ink while showing a presentation

In PowerPoint, you can add ink markings to a slide while you are presenting:

Basic inking tools

Word Mobile, Excel Mobile, and PowerPoint Mobile all come with basic inking options on the Draw tab: a selection tool, a draw-with-touch tool, a stroke eraser, pens, multiple ink colors, and ink thickness options:

If you're working in OneNote for Windows 10, see Write notes and draw in OneNote for Windows 10.

Draw or write

By default, Draw with Touch (or 'Inking mode') is turned on when you are using a mobile device. Just tap the Draw tab, select a pen , and you can begin drawing ink on a slide.

The Draw tab in Word Mobile, Excel Mobile, and PowerPoint Mobile for Windows 10 is similar to the desktop versions of each app. Before you can use the drawing features, be sure to update to the latest version of Windows 10. To do this, select the Windows button in the lower-left corner of your screen, and select Settings > Update & security > Windows Update. Click Check for updates to get the latest updates.

To change the settings on a pen:

How To Convert Ink To Text In Word

  1. Tap again to open the menu of thickness and color options for the pen. Select your preferred size and color:

    • There are five pen thickness settings ranging from .25 mm to 3.5 mm. Select a thickness or use the plus or minus sign to make your pen thicker or thinner.

    • Sixteen solid colors are available on the menu, with more available when you tap More Ink Colors.

    • Eight effects are also available: Rainbow, Galaxy, Lava, Ocean, Rose Gold, Gold, Silver, and Bronze.

  2. On the touch screen, begin writing or drawing.

    Once you have drawn an ink shape, it behaves like any shape that you are used to working with in Office. You can select the shape, then you can move or copy it, change its color, pivot its position, and so on.

  3. To stop inking and select your annotations, either to modify or move them, turn off Draw with Touch on the Draw tab. Turning off this feature also keeps you from making accidental ink marks when your hand touches the screen.

Select

Inking mode is turned on when you have selected a pen or highlighter on the Draw tab. Otherwise, you are in Select mode, and you can tap to select an object.

PowerPoint Mobile and Excel Mobile also have an ink selection tool, Lasso Select, , specifically for selecting objects drawn with ink. It's most useful when you have a mixture of standard and ink objects and you only want to select an ink object.

To select part of a drawing or words written in ink in PowerPoint or Excel:

  1. On the Draw tab on the Ribbon, tap Lasso Select .

  2. With your pen or finger, drag to encircle the ink that you want to select.

    A faded, dashed selection region appears as you drag, and when you're done, the portion you've lassoed is selected. Then you can manipulate that object as you wish: move it, copy it, delete it, and so on.

Erase

  1. On the Draw tab, tap the Eraser.

    (In PowerPoint, you can choose from three erasers—a stroke eraser, or a small or medium eraser. Tap the down arrow on the Eraser button to pick the eraser that you want.)

  2. Drag the eraser over the ink you want to remove.

Convert ink drawings to standard shapes in PowerPoint

In PowerPoint, you can convert ink drawings on a touch screen into common shapes:

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  1. Ensure that Draw with Mouse or Touch is turned on.

  2. Tap Ink to Shapes

  3. With a pen or your finger, draw a shape on the slide. When you finish drawing, PowerPoint automatically converts your drawing to the shape that looks most like it.

    To stop converting shapes, tap Ink to Shapes again.

Open the Draw tab on Windows 10 Mobile phones

Here's how to see the Draw tab in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint on Windows 10 Mobile phones.

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  1. Select the More button in the lower-right corner of the screen.

  2. Pick the Draw tab.

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