Adding text to the whiteboard

Use the Text button in the whiteboard’s toolbar to add text to the page. You can add text using a keyboard or by using the voice to text feature. After you've added text to a page, it becomes a text object that you can manipulate in a number of ways. See Moving, resizing, rotating, and locking objects in SMART TeamWorks.

You can also write in digital ink, then convert the ink to text.

To add text

1. On the whiteboard toolbar, tap to add a text object to the page.

   Note 

   By default, you can insert a maximum of ten objects in a whiteboard page. To change this default, use the settings window’s Max objects per page option.

2. Tap within the text object box to make the onscreen keyboard appear, and then type the text.

   OR

   Tap Speech to text and start speaking. SMART TeamWorks converts your speech to text on the page.

   Note 

   Windows may prompt you for permission to use the microphone for this feature.

To convert ink to text

1. Write your text in digital ink.

2. Tap and draw a circle around the ink you want to convert to text.

   

3. From the object toolbar that appears, tap To Text.

   

   The ink is converted to text.

   Tip 

   Tap Edit to make changes to the text after it’s been converted.

   

After you've added a text object to a page, you can perform a number of actions on it:

• Open the text in Notepad

• Clone the text

• Send the object to the back layer

• Rotate and resize the text

• Expand the text to full screen

• Change the text's appearance

• Edit the text

• Delete the text

To manipulate text objects

1. If the text object toolbar isn’t visible, select the text object to make it appear.

   

2. Use these options to manipulate the text object:

   Open	Opens the text in Windows’ Notepad application.
   Clone	Duplicates the object.
   Send to back	Makes the object appear under the other objects on the whiteboard page.
   Rearrange	Rotates or resizes the text. Use the yellow circle on the text object’s border to rotate, and use the yellow square to resize.
   Fullscreen	Expands the object to full screen.
   Color	Changes the text color.
   Speech to text	Allows you to dictate to the whiteboard, and SMART TeamWorks converts your speech to text.
   Edit	Allows you to edit the text.
   Delete	Deletes the object.