

C lick the down arrow, and then select the color you want to a pply from the Recent Colors section, right below Thickness. To give you faster access to your favorite pen colors, we’ r e now showing your most recent ly used pen colors. We’ve noticed that users have primarily been changing pen colors rather than changing the pen s themselves. Note: The Point Eraser is not available for Excel yet. C lick the Eraser down arrow, and then the Point Eraser. S elect the Eraser ( it’s next to the Lasso).Ģ. O nly the ink you pass the eraser over will be erased. It works similarly to an eraser on a real pencil. If you just want to erase part of an ink stroke, use the new Point Eraser. It offers more precision tha n the stroke eraser, which erase s a whole stroke at once when you swipe across the ink. Point EraserĪnother feature that PowerPoint has had for a while is now coming to Word : the Point Eraser. W hatever the shape, and it will be selected. Select the Lasso ( it’s on the left end side of the toolbox).

Once selected, you can change, move, or delete the ink. You can select individual strokes or entire words or shapes. You use the Lasso to select ink on your document. LassoĮxcel and PowerPoint have had the Lasso for a while, and now it’s coming to Word. We’ve brought together all the relevant tools across Word, Excel, and PowerPoint in one unified toolb ox – the pens, the lasso tool and the eraser. W e conduct ed usability tests and found value in simplifying the set of tools available. The Action Pen will be coming to the other apps soon! Updated Toolbox Locate the Action Pen on the right side of the toolbox (next to the other drawing tools), s elect it and start using intelligent ink. It repla ces the previous Ink Editor button that you had on the Draw tab in Word. This is an easier way to launch the ink editing experience in Word. It helps you edit documents with ink gestures. To start, we’re introducing the Action Pen in Word. In addition to our general Drawing Tools, we are bringing intelligent tools, optimized for core experiences to each app. We’re excited to share some improvements to the ink experience. Hi everyone, Jessica Chen here with Mark Rideout, and we’re Program Manager s on the Office Pen and Ink team.
