Drawing Tools in Outlook 2010

On a touch-enabled twist, draw with your fingerbreadth, a digital write, operating theater a computer mouse.

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

Please starting time by choosing your version of Office:

If your device is touch-enabled, the Draw check is upset on mechanically. Other than, turn it on by selecting Data file > Options > Tailor-make Ribbon > Draw.

Write, draw, or play up text

The new pen set is customizable and portable. You define the pens you want to experience, 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 of God, you must Be in Print layout to draw with ink. If the Draw tab is grayed out so that you can't select a playpen, go the View tab and select Print Layout.

   In Outlook, prime tap the body of the message and enter a draught canvas ; then you can select a compose to draw with.

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

   • There are cardinal playpen thickness settings ranging from .25 mm to 3.5 mm. Superior a thickness or use the positive or minus sign on 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, Galax, Lava, Ocean, Rose Gold, Gold, Silver, and Bronzy.

   

3. A Pencil texture is also available:

   When you draw with the Pencil texture while using a underslung digital stylus, you can tilt the stylus to become a "shading" set up, honorable like you would get down with a real pencil.

   

4. On the touchscreen, begin writing OR draught.

   Once you undergo raddled an ink shape, it behaves like any shape that you are used to temporary with in Office. You can buoy prize the shape, then you can move or copy it, change its color, pivot its position, and soh along.

5. To stop inking and pick out your annotations, either to change or move them, select Hooking or Reap with Touch on the Draw tab.

Convert ink to text or shapes

Word surgery Excel: See Convert ink to shapes in Office

PowerPoint: See Change ink to schoolbook or shapes in PowerPoint for Microsoft 365.

More features

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

1. Under Draw > Tools, hydrant the Eraser.

   (In PowerPoint for Microsoft 365, you can choose from different sizes of erasers. Word has three eraser options. Beg the down pointer on the Eraser push to filling the eraser that you want.)

   

2. With your write OR finger, tangle the eraser over the ink you want to remove.

   With the Section Eraser in PowerPoint, you toilet merely tap a segment of ink operating theatre drag across it to remove information technology (rather than having to exhaustively rub away the entire segment). Dragging across segments is an easy way to erase several at erstwhile.

Some agile pens, much as the Surface pen, have an eraser that you can also use to erase appendage ink.

Every apps admit a Draw tool on the Draw tab of the Ribbon for switching between inking mode and selection modal value.

In that respect is too an ink selection tool, Lasso Select, or for specifically for selecting objects drawn with ink. It's most useful when you have a mix of modular and ink objects and you only want to select an ink object.

Applies lone to Word, PowerPoint, and Surpass:

To select part of a drawing or words written in ink, usance the Roland de Lassus Select tool. (This tool give notice't select non-ink objects—that is, shapes, pictures, etc.)

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

2. With your penitentiary Beaver State thumb, drag to reap a circle close to the part of the drawing or word that you privation to blue-ribbon. A faded, dashed selection region appears around information technology, and when you'ray cooked, the portion you lassoed is selected. And then you fire manipulate that object as you wish: prompt it, change its color, and soh on.

   

In some Excel and PowerPoint, with a digital penitentiary, you can select an area without regular tapping the selection puppet on the ribbon. Use the supported digital pen button to Lasso Take ink without visiting the ribbon. And then you can function the pen to move, resize, or rotate the ink object.

1. Along the File menu, select Options, and and then blue-ribbon Advanced.

2. In the Pen section, select the box succeeding to Use penitentiary to choose and interact with content aside default.

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

If your device is touch-enabled, the Delineate tab is soured happening mechanically. Other, work it along by selecting File > Options > Customize Ribbon > Draw.

Write, depict, operating theater spotlight schoolbook

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

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

   

   In Word, you must be in Print layout to draw with ink. If the Haulage pill is grayed extinct so that you can't quality a pen, go the See tab and select Print Layout.

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

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

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

   

3. A Pencil texture is too available:

   When you draw with the Pencil texture piece using a supported digital style, you can tilt the stylus to get a "blending" effect, just like you would contract with a substantial pencil.

   

4. Happening the touch shield, begin writing surgery drawing.

   Once you have drawn an ink frame, it behaves like whatever shape that you are used to working with in Bureau. You can select the shape, then you can move operating theatre imitate it, change its color, pivot its position, and so connected.

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

Convert ink to schoolbook operating theater shapes

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

More features

Select a aim to a lower place to open it and see the detailed instructions.

1. Under Draw > Tools, tap the Eraser.

   (In PowerPoint for Microsoft 365, you can take from four erasers. Rap the down arrow on the Eraser button to pick the eraser that you desire.)

   

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

   With the Segment Eraser in PowerPoint, you can simply tap a segment of ink or sweep across it to absent it (rather than having to thoroughly wipe off the entire segment). Dragging across segments is an easy style to wipe off individual right away.

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

When you've been drawing with ink, you can use Contain Inking on the Hook lozenge to interchange the sneak out pointer back to a standard selection tool . The selection tool can select digital ink drawings and any different kind-hearted of objects.

PowerPoint and Excel also have got an ink excerption creature, Rope Select, specifically for selecting objects drawn with ink. It's almost useful when you have a mixture of standard and ink objects and you merely want to select an ink object.

Applies only to PowerPoint and Stand out:

To select share of a drawing operating theater words written in ink, use the Lasso Select tool. (This tool fundament't blue-ribbon not-ink objects—that is, shapes, pictures, etc.)

1. Under Draw > Tools on the Ribbon, bu Reata Select .

2. With your penitentiary operating theatre feel, pull to draw a circle approximately the start of the drawing or word that you neediness to select. A faded, dashed selection part appears around it, and when you're done, the dowry you lassoed is selected. And so you can manipulate that object as you regard: affect it, change its color, and so on.

   

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

1. Pick out File > Options > Advanced.

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

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

Find the drawing tools

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

Pen or draw

1. Under Ink Tools >Pens choose Pen.

   

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

   

3. On the touchscreen, Begin writing or lottery.

   

Highlight text

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

   

2. Point and dredge your pen or feel over the text that you wishing to highlight.

   You send away highlight text in Excel, Word, and Outlook, merely PowerPoint doesn't defend highlighting text.

Delete whole written lyric or ink drawings

1. Subordinate Ink Tools, happening the Pens pill, click the arrow below Eraser, and then pick up an eraser size.

   

2. With your compose or finger's breadth, select the word or ink drawing that you want to erase.

Drawing in OneNote

If you'rhenium exploitation OneNote and want to draw, see these past articles:

OneNote for Windows 10: Write notes and move in OneNote

OneNote: Draw and sketch notes on a Thomas Nelson Page

Extra features in PowerPoint

Select parts of an ink drawing or written dustup (PowerPoint single)

To select part of a draftsmanship or some written words, use the Lasso tool. (You cannot use of goods and services the Reata tool to select not-ink objects (shapes, pictures, etc.).

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

   

2. With your pen or finger, haul to draw a circle around the part of the drafting or word that you want to select. A faded, dashed choice 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 handwritten words (PowerPoint only if)

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

   

2. With your write out Oregon finger, pick out parts of the ink drawing Oregon text that you want to erase.

Convert ink drawings to shapes (PowerPoint only)

You can convert ink drawings on a touchscreen into common shapes.

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

   

2. With a pen or your finger, draw a embodiment on the swoop, and PowerPoint automatically converts your drawing off to the chassis that looks most the like it.

   To stop converting shapes, click Convert to Shapes again.

Which shapes can PowerPoint convert?

When you make up an ink drawing, PowerPoint can commute it to the shape that is most like it.

Ink drawing	Corresponding shape
Rectangle	Rectangle
Straight	Rectangle with entirely sides equal
Diamond	Diamond
Parallelogram	Parallelogram
Os trapezoideum	Trapezoid
Irregular quadrilateral	Closed freeform shape with 4 sides
Regular pentagon	Pentagon with wholly sides equal
Regular hexagon	Hexagon with all sides equal
Ellipse	Ellipse
Rotary	Ellipse with shape height and width equal
Unshared-headed arrow	Arrow
Replicate-headed pointer	Double arrow
Arrows conjunctive two shapes	Arrow connectors
Right trilateral	Trilateral with quadrant
Equilateral triangle	Triangle with all sides equal
Isosceles triangle	Triangle with two equalize sides
Irregular triangle	Closed freeform with three sides.

For more information about using Billet with Windows touch devices, get wind the favourable:

• Office Speck Lead

• Read documents in Word

Write, draw, or highlight text

On the Mack, these features are only available in Microsoft 365 and Office 2022 for Mac.

1. Connected the Draw tab of the Ribbon, tap a write out to select it.

   

2. Tap again to open the menu of Heaviness and Color options for the indite. Select your preferred size and semblance.

   • There are fin pen thickness settings ranging from .25 mm to 3.5 millimetre. Select a thickness to make your pen thicker operating theatre thinner.

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

   • Eight effects are as wel available: Rainbow, Galaxy, Lava, Sea, Blush wine Gold, Gilded, Silver, and Chromatic.

3. A Pencil texture is also available:

   When you draw with the Pencil texture while victimization a supported digital style, you can tilt the stylus to get a "blending" effect, just like you would get with a real pencil.

   

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

5. To end inking and select your annotations, either to alter or move them, undo the selection of the Draw button on the Pull out tabloid.

Touch drawing with a trackpad

Instead than drawing ink with your mouse, you can draw on a trackpad with your finger. See Consumption your trackpad for "touch" drawing for more than info.

Erase ink

1. Under Draw > Tools, tap the Eraser.

   (In PowerPoint for Microsoft 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 along the Eraser button to pick the eraser that you want.)

   

2. With your mouse, pen, or finger, haul the eraser o'er the ink you want to remove.

Additional procedures

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

PowerPoint and Excel also have an ink excerption 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 wish to prize an ink object.

Applies only if to PowerPoint and Stand out:

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

1. Under Draw > Tools happening the Ribbon, tap Orlando di Lasso Select .

2. With your mouse, pen, or finger, drag to draw a circle round 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 percentage you lassoed is selected. Then you stool manipulate that object as you wish: move it, change its color, then along.

   

1. On the PowerPoint, Word, operating theatre Excel card, 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 mount only applies to the current app. So, for example, you can have automatic inking turned happening in Excel and turned off in Word.

Base inking tools

Parole for iOS, Excel for iOS, and PowerPoint for iOS all accompany canonic inking options along the Hook tab: a selection puppet, a pass around-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 (Oregon "Inking mood") is turned on when you are exploitation a mobile twist. Just tap the Draw tab, select a pen , and you rump commence 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 up and color:

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

   • Sixteen solid colors are available on the carte du jour, with more available when you wiretap More Ink Colours.

   • (For Microsoft 365 subscribers lone) Eight effects are also available: Rainbow, Wandflower, Lava, Ocean, Rose Gold, Gold, Silver, and Metallic.

   

   A Pencil texture is straightaway available:

   

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

2. Along the touchscreen, set out authorship or drawing.

   Once you have drawn an ink pattern, it behaves like whatever influence that you are used to working with in Office. You can select the pattern, then you can move Beaver State re-create it, change its color, pivot its position, and so on.

3. To stop inking and prime your annotations, either to modify or move them, cut Draw with Touch on the Draw tablet. Turn off this feature also keeps you from devising accidental ink marks when your pass on touches the screen.

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

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Select

On an iOS gimmick, Inking way is aroused when you have selected a pen or highlighter on the Draw tab. Other, you are in Select mode, and you can water tap to select an targe.

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

PowerPoint and Stand out have an ink selection tool, Riata Select, specifically for selecting objects drawn with ink. IT's most recyclable when you have a mixture of standard and ink objects on a slide and you only neediness to select an ink object.

To choose part of a drawing or row written in ink in PowerPoint or Excel, use the Lasso Choose tool:

1. On the Draw lozenge happening the Ribbon, solicit Lasso Select .

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

   A faded, dashed selection domain appears as you drag, and when you'rhenium done, the portion you've lassoed is selected. Then you can manipulate that object as you wish: move it, copy it, cancel it, and so happening.

   

Erase

1. On the Pull along tab, tap the Eraser.

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

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

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

Switch tools with the new Apple Pencil

Office for iOS supports the 2nd-propagation Apple Pencil and its large-tap gesture. By default, the double-tap gesture switches from the current puppet to the eraser, but the System settings on your device admit you to prefer a different behavior for this motion. This feature is available to Microsoft 365 subscribers in Word, Stand out, and PowerPoint on iPad version 2.22.19020221 and later.

Turn off automatic inking

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

2. Ringlet through the list of apps at the bottom of the Settings page to find your Position app, and dab to open its Settings.

3. In the app settings on the right side, at the bottom under Draw and Comment, toggle Malus pumila Pencil Forever Draws Ink.

For more information, see Cut automatic inking on iOS.

Convert ink drawings to standard shapes in PowerPoint

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

1. Ensure that Draw with Mouse or Touch is sour along.

2. Tap Ink to Shapes

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

   To stop converting shapes, tap Ink to Shapes again.

Grassroots inking tools

Word for Android, Excel for Humanoid, and PowerPoint for Android all come with basic inking options connected the Draw poker tab: a selection puppet, a draw-with-touch tool, a stroke eraser, pens, ink colors and a discolor bicycle, and ink thickness options:

Draw or write

By nonremittal, Draw with Mouse operating theatre Touch (or "Inking mode") is sexy when you are using a perambulating device. Just tap the Draw tab, quality a compose , and you potty begin drawing ink on a slideway.

Select

On an Android device, Inking mode is turned happening when you have elite a pen operating theater highlighter on the Draw tab. Otherwise, you are in Choose mode, and you can tap to select an object.

PowerPoint and Excel have an ink selection tool, Lasso Select, specifically for selecting ink drawings. Information technology's virtually useful when you own a mixture of definitive and ink objects and you only want to select an ink targe.

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

1. Happening the Pull along tablet on the Thread, rap Lasso Select .

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

   A attenuate, dashed selection region appears as you drop behind, and when you're finished, the assign you've lassoed is selected. Then you can manipulate that object as you wish: move it, copy information technology, delete information technology, and so forth.

   

Erase

1. On the Draw yellow journalism, tap the Eraser.

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

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

Some live pens, such as the Rise up pen, have an eraser that you posterior also manipulation to erase digital ink without having to select an eraser from the Ribbon.

Convert ink drawings to standard shapes in PowerPoint

In PowerPoint, you keister convert ink drawings on a touchscreen into common shapes:

1. Control that Pull in with Mouse or Touch is turned on.

2. Tap Ink to Shapes

3. With a compose or your finger, draw a shape on the slide. When you land up drawing, PowerPoint automatically converts your drawing to the frame that looks almost like it.

   To stop converting shapes, tap Ink to Shapes again.

Annotate with ink spell showing a presentment

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

Basic inking tools

Parole Maneuverable, Surpass Mobile, and PowerPoint Moveable all come with basal inking options on the Draw tab: a extract tool, a guide-with-touch tool, a stroke eraser, pens, multiple ink colors, and ink heaviness options:

If you'rhenium working in OneNote for Windows 10, get wind Write notes and draw in OneNote for Windows 10.

Suck in or spell

By default, Draw with Touch (or "Inking way") is turned on when you are using a nomadic device. Just solicit the Lot tab, select a pen , and you fire begin drawing ink on a slide.

The Draw tab in Word Moveable, Excel Mechanized, and PowerPoint Mobile for Windows 10 is analogous to the desktop versions of each app. Before you can utilize the drawing features, be sure to update to the latest version of Windows 10. To coiffe this, blue-ribbon the Windows button in the lower-left niche of your blind, and select Settings > Update & security > Windows Update. Click Hold for updates to get the latest updates.

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 millimetre to 3.5 mm. Select a thickness Beaver State use the plus operating theater minus sign to make your pen thicker operating theatre diluent.

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

   • Eight effects are also gettable: Rainbow, Galaxy, Lava, Ocean, Rose Golden, Amber, Facile, and Bronze.

   

2. Connected the affect screen, begin writing or drawing.

   Once you have drawn an ink shape, information technology behaves like whatever shape that you are accustomed working with in Office. You can select the figure, then you can move or copy it, change its color, pivot its position, and and then on.

3. To stop inking and select your annotations, either to modify or move them, turn around off Draw with Touch connected the Draw tablet. Turning off this boast also keeps you from fashioning inadvertent ink First Baron Marks of Broughton when your paw touches the cover.

Select

Inking way is rotated on when you rich person hand-picked a pen or highlighter along the Draw tab. Other, you are in Select mode, and you can strike to select an object.

PowerPoint Mobile and Excel Peregrine also have an ink selection tool, Lasso Select, , specifically for selecting objects drawn with ink. Information technology's nearly utile when you feature a commixture of criterional 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 Surpass:

1. On the Pull off tab on the Ribbon, tip Lasso Select .

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

   A colourless, dashed selection area appears as you drag, and when you're done, the portion you've lassoed is selected. Past you send away manipulate that object as you indirect request: move it, written matter it, delete it, and then on.

   

Score out

1. Happening 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 retired arrow along the Eraser button to pick the eraser that you want.)

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

Convert ink drawings to standard shapes in PowerPoint

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

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

2. Tap Ink to Shapes

3. With a penitentiary or your finger, draw a shape happening the slide. When you finish lottery, PowerPoint mechanically converts your drawing to the shape that looks most like it.

   To stop converting shapes, tap Ink to Shapes again.

Open the Draw tab along Windows 10 Mobile phones

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

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

2. Pick the Draw check.

   

Write, draw, or highlight text in PowerPoint

1. Along the Draw tab of the thread tap a pen to select it.

   

2. If you want to customize the pen tap the drop pointer adjacent to the pen on the ribbon and select the thickness, and color, you want.

The Draw menu lets you have deuce separate pens available, plus a highlighter.

Erase ink

Choose the eraser from the pens gallery on the Draw chit, past swipe your pointer across the ink you want to erase. This is a virgule eraser, which means it will erase entire ink strokes at one time.

Come across Also

Languages supported for ink-to-text conversion

Put off automatic inking connected Windows or iOS

Drawing Tools in Outlook 2010

Source: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/draw-and-write-with-ink-in-office-6d76c674-7f4b-414d-b67f-b3ffef6ccf53

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