Draw with Touch

Quick reference

• 00:04 In this section we're going to shift our focus to working with touch.
• 00:09 And I will say that the lessons in this particular section mainly apply to those
• 00:13 people who use some kind of touch device.
• 00:16 So that might be a tablet, a laptop that has a touchscreen or
• 00:20 another touch enabled device.
• 00:23 Now if you don't have a touch device,
• 00:25 then you might choose to skip this section which is absolutely fine.
• 00:29 Alternatively, you can run through this section as well because you can
• 00:33 apply annotations and use drawing tools with your mouse but obviously that's
• 00:38 not quite as accurate and probably isn't something that you're going to do.
• 00:43 So I'll leave that decision up to you.
• 00:45 But for those of you that do have a touch device,
• 00:48 let's have a look at some of the options that we have available in PowerPoint to
• 00:52 add annotations to our slides.
• 00:54 Now if you are using a touch device,
• 00:56 the first thing I would recommend is that you turn on touch mode.
• 01:00 And a simple way to do this is to add touch/mouse mode to your
• 01:04 Quick Access Toolbar.
• 01:07 So let's jump up to our little drop down arrow on the end because touch mouse mode
• 01:11 is actually one of the options we can turn on from this menu.
• 01:16 So let's click it.
• 01:16 And you can see we now have this little icon.
• 01:19 Currently, I'm in mouse mode, but if you want to switch to touch mode, you'll
• 01:24 notice that you get more space on the ribbon in between your different commands.
• 01:29 And that's really to allow for a finger as opposed to a very small mouse cursor.
• 01:35 Now we're going to be exclusively using the draw tab in this lesson and
• 01:39 the next one.
• 01:40 And what you'll notice in this first group,
• 01:43 the drawing tools group is that we have a number of different pens and
• 01:46 pencils that we can use to make annotations on the screen.
• 01:50 Now I'm using a laptop that is also a touchscreen device.
• 01:54 So I'm going to be using my stylus in order to make annotations.
• 01:58 So the first thing I'm going to do is in the touch group,
• 02:01 I'm going to switch to draw with touch.
• 02:04 And basically what I can now do is choose a pen or a pencil to use.
• 02:09 Now with all of these different drawing tools,
• 02:12 you'll see that there's a little arrow.
• 02:14 If I click the drop down, I can then choose the thickness of my line and
• 02:19 also the colour.
• 02:21 So for this one the default is red.
• 02:23 I might want to make that a little bit thicker and
• 02:25 change it to something that matches my colour scheme a little bit more.
• 02:28 So let's switch to this plum colour.
• 02:31 So now I have my pen set up,
• 02:32 I can basically start to make annotations on my slide.
• 02:45 Now that is a very messy example because I'm kind of trying to write vertically.
• 02:50 If you're using something like a laptop,
• 02:52 then your handwriting is probably going to be a lot neater than mine is just here.
• 02:56 But hopefully you get the idea.
• 02:59 If I want to switch to a different style pen,
• 03:01 I simply go back to my drawing tools and let's go for this galaxy pen just here.
• 03:06 I'm going to make this reasonably thick and let's leave it on this galaxy color.
• 03:12 And once again, I can make some annotations on my page.
• 03:15 I also have a highlighter in here which is going to help me highlight certain pieces
• 03:20 of text on the page.
• 03:22 And again, I'm sure you can probably do this a lot neater than I'm doing it here.
• 03:26 But hopefully you get the idea.
• 03:28 Just select your pen from the choices, select the thickness and
• 03:32 then start annotating on your slides.
• 03:35 Now if at any point you want to erase, you also have an eraser tool, just here.
• 03:40 So if we click this, and again we have a little drop down just here,
• 03:44 I can choose the stroke eraser, point eraser or segment eraser.
• 03:49 So let's go for segment eraser.
• 03:52 I can swipe over the line and it's going to erase it.
• 03:55 I can do the same for this text up here so
• 03:58 I can just swipe through it to a raise that out.
• 04:01 So reasonably straightforward to do.
• 04:04 Now, if at any point you want to deactivate touch mode,
• 04:07 just click on the arrow which is the first icon on the ribbon, and
• 04:10 that's just going to take you back to your regular mouse cursor.
• 04:14 Now something else that's quite cool and
• 04:16 it's actually one of the newer features that's been added to
• 04:19 PowerPoint is the ruler that you have in the middle in the stencils group.
• 04:23 Now, if I turn this on, it's going to put this big old ruler on my slide.
• 04:29 And what I can do is I can use my fingers on my touch device to turn this ruler and
• 04:34 position it wherever I want.
• 04:36 And this is particularly good if you're trying to line up specific objects on your
• 04:40 slide, or maybe even if you want to draw a completely straight line.
• 04:44 So with my rule in place like that, I'm going to turn on draw with touch.
• 04:49 I'm going to select the black pen and I'm going to keep it at that thickness.
• 04:54 Now I'm using my stylus if I start to draw a line,
• 04:57 it's going to be perfectly straight.
• 05:00 And follow along that ruler.
• 05:02 So that's quite a nice little addition.
• 05:05 The final thing I want to show you in this particular lesson is
• 05:08 the ink replay option.
• 05:10 So again, if I try and write some text on this slide,
• 05:15 I can then click on Ink Replay and
• 05:17 it's basically going to rewrite that piece of text for me.
• 05:23 So that can be quite nice if you're doing a presentation like this one and
• 05:26 you want to show some handwriting, you can write it with your stylus and
• 05:30 then click on Ink Replay.
• 05:32 That's pretty much all there is to touch, it is fairly straightforward.
• 05:36 Now we do have a few other selections on this ribbon that we haven't looked at yet
• 05:41 such as ink to math, ink to shape and also the lasso tool.
• 05:45 And that's exactly what we're going to be looking at in the next lesson.
• 05:48 So I'm going to head over there now and I look forward to you joining me

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