Windows Vista™ Plain & Simple

Writing Your Text

The Tablet PC Input Panel isn’t just for Tablet PCs any more! You can enter text in a program by writing on the Input Panel using a pen-sensitive computer (such as a Tablet PC), or you can use a digitizing pad, a stylus or similar interface tool, or even just your mouse. The Input Panel has two writing modes—the Writing Pad, where you can write anywhere on a line, and the Character Pad if you want to write one character at a time. However, these two modes are similar—you can even use the Character Pad to make corrections to your text when you use the Writing Pad. Whichever method you use to write your text, the program recognizes your writing and converts it into standard digital text. You can then insert the text into a document. ...