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Using inking

Using inking - PowerPoint Tutorial

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Using inking

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- [Instructor] Inking within PowerPoint converts input from a touch-enabled device into PowerPoint content, which can make your slides considerably more interactive and potentially simplify how you integrate slides into presentations. The biggest disclaimer here is that inking requires special hardware like a touchscreen-enabled device or USB-linked drawing tablet. If you've got that hardware available, you should see a tab here in PowerPoint labeled draw. Select that tab, and you'll be taken to the inking area. To begin, select draw, and then choose the utensil you'd like to use. We're going to go with the standard black pen. With this enabled, you can interact with the slide to draw attention to any points that you would like. If you choose afterwards to erase some of these little doodles, beautiful though they may be, just go with eraser, and they're simple to erase just by drawing them across the line. Now that's straightforward enough, but there are also some neat options for…

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