Creating and working with text

Create text in SMART Notebook software by doing any of the following:

  • Typing the text using a keyboard connected to your computer

  • Typing the text using the on-screen keyboard

  • Writing the text and then converting it to typed text using the software’s handwriting recognition feature

After creating text, you can edit it, check its spelling and change its properties, including font style, size and color.

You can type new text or edit existing text.

To type new text

  1. If a keyboard isn’t accessible, press and hold SMART Board Tools in the notification area (Windows operating systems) or the Dock (OS X operating system software), and then select Keyboard.

  2. Press Text Properties , and then select an available font style.

  3. Optionally, customize the font style (see Formatting text).

  4. Press where you want the text to start.

  5. Type your text.

  6. When you’re done, press outside the text object.

To edit existing text

  1. Double-click the text object.

  2. Edit the text.

  3. When you’re done, press outside the text object.

If you want to format all text in a text object, select the text object.

OR

If you want to format specific text in a text object, double-click the text object, and then select the text.

You can format text using the buttons in the toolbar or the options in the Properties tab or the Format menu.

Note 

If the Properties tab isn’t visible, press Properties , and then press Text Style.

The following table presents the formatting changes that you can make using the above tools:

Change

Toolbar

Properties tab

Format menu

Character, paragraph or object level

Change the font face

Yes

Yes

No

Change the font size

Tip 

To select a font size that doesn’t appear in the drop-down list (including font sizes with decimal values such as 20.5), type the font size in the Font Size box on the toolbar.

Yes

Yes

No

Change the color

Yes

Yes

No

Bold, italicize or underline text

Yes

Yes

Yes

Strike out text

Yes 1

Yes

Yes

Superscript or subscript text

Yes 2

Yes

Yes

Paragraph or object level

Change justification (left, right or center)

Yes

Yes

Yes

Change indentation

Yes 3

Yes

Yes

Create a bulleted or numbered list

Yes 4

Yes

Yes

Insert a drop cap

Tip 

To insert a drop cap at the beginning of a paragraph, press Drop Cap in the Properties tab under Text Style.

OR

Select Format > Paragraph > Drop Cap.

No

Yes

Yes

Change line spacing

Tip 

To add spacing between paragraphs, select the Add space after paragraphs check box in the Properties tab or select Format > Paragraph > Line Spacing > Add space after paragraphs.

No

Yes

Yes

Change language direction (left-to-right or right-to-left)

Note 

Select Format > Paragraph > Direction > Left to Right for languages that read left to right (for example, English and French).

OR

Select Format > Paragraph > Direction > Right to Left for languages that read right to left (for example, Arabic and Hebrew).

No

No

Yes

Object level

Change text direction (horizontal or vertical)

Yes 5

Yes

Yes

Change transparency

Yes

Yes

No

When you resize a text object, the text in the object changes size.

If you want to resize the text object without changing the size of the text in the object, complete the following procedure.

To resize a text object

  1. Double-click the text object.

  2. Press one of the two white circles on either side of text object, and then drag the circle to increase or reduce the text object’s size.

You can cut, copy and paste text objects like any other objects. You can also cut and paste text in a text object.

To cut and paste text to another location on the same page

  1. Double-click the text object.

  2. Select the text you want to cut.

  3. Drag the selected text to another location on the same page.

To cut and paste text to another page

  1. If the Page Sorter tab isn’t visible, press Page Sorter.

  2. Double-click the text object.

  3. Select the text you want to copy.

  4. Drag the selected text to the other page’s icon in the Page Sorter tab.

You can insert a variety of mathematical and scientific symbols into a page.

Note 

The mathematical symbols are characters only. They don’t perform mathematical operations.

To insert a mathematical symbol

  1. Type text on a page.

  2. Press More Text Options and then select Insert Symbol.

    A dialog box appears.

  3. Press a category.

    A list of symbols appears.

  4. Press the symbol you want to add to the text.

  5. Press Insert.

    The symbol appears in the text object.

As you type text, SMART Notebook software checks the spelling. If you spell a word incorrectly, SMART Notebook software underlines the word red. You can then right-click the word and select the correct spelling from a list of options.

If you prefer, you can disable this feature and check the spelling using the Spelling Check dialog box.

To disable automatic spell checking

  1. Press Text.

  2. Press More Text Options, and then select Check Spelling.

To manually check spelling of a text object

  1. Select the text object.

  2. Press the object’s menu arrow, and then select Check Spelling.

    If SMART Notebook software finds a misspelled word, the Spelling Check dialog box appears For OS X, the Spelling and Grammar dialog box appears. This dialog box displays the misspelled word and suggests alternatives.

  3. For each misspelled word, do one of the following:

    • To keep the word’s current spelling for this instance, press Ignore Once.

    • To keep the word’s current spelling for all instances in the file, press Ignore All.

    • To keep the word’s current spelling for all instances in the file and add the spelling to the dictionary, press Add to Dictionary.

    • To change the word’s spelling for this instance, select the correct word in the Suggestions list, and then press Change.

    • To change the word’s spelling for all instances in the file, select the correct word in the Suggestions list, and then press Change All.

    Note 

    If you pressed a button by mistake, press Undo to undo the resulting change.

    After you complete this step for each misspelled word, a dialog box appears asking whether you want to check the spelling in the rest of the file.

  4. Press Yes to check the remainder of the file.

    OR

    Press No to close the Spelling Check dialog box without checking the rest of the file.

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