Use a Pencil with Your iPad

Although the Mac’s Pages app has traditionally been the most fully featured of the Pages apps, the iPad version offers a few unique capabilities, such as compatibility with the Apple Pencil, which adds an extra dimension to the iPad’s multi-touch interface.

A Pencil used with a compatible iPad (most of the latest ones are) provides you with the ability to draw with much finer control than a fingertip offers, and to augment keyboard input with handwritten text input, along with giving you yet another way to scroll and select text.

Read ahead to learn how to Set Up Your Pencil (next), Choose to Draw or Scribble, and to Make Smart Annotations with it.

Set Up Your Pencil

Since a Pencil can perform a variety of actions, ...

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