Windows 8 In Depth

Training the Handwriting Recognizer

Windows does a pretty good job of recognizing standard English written in generic block or cursive form. If you start to use handwriting input a lot, though, you’ll find that it has trouble with some of the details and quirks of your own handwriting.

Windows will slowly learn to accommodate those quirks on its own if you use the Correcting mode described in the previous section to choose the alternate spellings that Windows suggests, or to add new words to the dictionary. You can speed the learning process up considerably by doing a little one-on-one training with the handwriting system.

As of the time this was written, Microsoft hadn’t done a good job of making the training wizard accessible. In your copy ...