First, pair your Surface Pen with your Surface Pro. You can do this manually too. Now, to open Cortana, hold down the top button pen for a second or so, then enter your question. Assuming you’re ...

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Microsoft is adding OneNote's Fountain and Brush pens to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint for enhanced creativity. Users can customize which pens appear on their Draw tab to prevent overcrowding. To use ...

First, launch the OneNote app and then click on the Draw tab. Next, click the Ink to Shape button and choose a Pen from the Pen Gallery. Use this pen to draw a shape into the notebook. It will convert ...

Microsoft redeemed itself after the Windows RT fiasco with a sleek, Windows 8.1 Surface 3 tablet that really shines when combined with the optional Surface pen and OneNote app. As if to offer a mea ...

The concept is simple, even if the technology behind it is complicated: You write with a pen on paper, plug the pen into a computer, and have everything you’ve written converted into digital text.

It seems like every week we see Microsoft adding features to its growing iOS app line. This week was a big one, adding pen support and handwriting recognition to OneNote for iOS. This finally catches ...

For those with #GalaxyNote5 issues, check out this post. Again, we cover more issues specific to this device today. Below are the topics we answer for our Android community: If you are looking for ...

My handwriting looks like a doctor's prescription. But OneNote's hidden handwriting conversion feature rescues my notes. It converts even my worst scrawls into perfectly readable text, whether I'm ...

If use OneNote in presentations this little bit of software looks like it will be a big aid. Daniel Escapa is pointing to Pen Attention from Kenrick Mock, which draws a circle highlight, pen, or ...