

Office 365, Word for Windows Fasttrack Insiders can try Ink editor now. If it is, it will change the drawing into a highlight or remove the selection. If Ink Editor is on, Word will immediately will look at what you’ve drawn and try to interpret it as a highlight or delete action. When you are sure that the editor would work on the selected machine, you can proceed with the installation. Before anything, you need to check the compatibility of the laptop, tablet or smartphone on which the installation has to be done. Installing a plain text editor is a big hassle as well. The drawing ‘ink’ is applied to the document, as usual, when you draw on the screen. Plain Text Editor - No installation needed. If you use undo after an Ink Editor action, it becomes clear what’s happening ‘under the hood’.Ī single undo will change the highlighted text back to drawn ink (or restore the deleted text with drawn ink overlay), another Undo will remove the drawn ink. Word will delete the chosen area.Īs you can see, the selection made by Ink Editor may not be complete or correct. Then ‘draw’ across words, phrases or ‘scribble’ across an entire paragraph. The Microsoft demos use Red ‘ink’ but any color will work. To delete from a document, click on Ink Editor then choose one of the ink options in the gallery. When a line of text is filled, the word processor automatically moves the text to the next line, so the we do not have to press the return key after every line. Ink Editor will translate your drawn line into standard highlighted text.ĭo a broad ‘scribble’ across a block of text and the entire area/paragraph will be highlighted. Explanation : Word wrap is a word processing feature that forces all text to be confined within defined margins. we can do this by clicking the Design Mode command and editing the placeholder text directly. Now ‘draw’ over a line or phrase, the drawing doesn’t have to be precise. (A Microsoft Word Help & Tip page by Gregory K. Or if you want to hide it, simply click Ruler again. If you want to toggle it on, click View and select Ruler in Show. But in Word 2016 it doesn’t show by default. To highlight text, click on Ink Editor then choose one of the highlight options in the gallery. Ruler is a useful tool to make the layout of your document tidy and well-organized. With Ink Editor on, you can use the drawing actions to highlight or delete text using ‘drawing’ actions. Select an option to change the font, font size, font color. A new trick in Word for Windows and eventually other Office apps is the Ink Editor. Follow these steps to add, replace, and format text in Word.
