Surface pen no longer able to highlight the article

Anonymous
2017-11-06T04:35:32+00:00

I use the surface pen to do personal reading as well as highlighting on the article. However, recently I suddenly cannot do the highlighting  anymore. Each time I tried to highlight, the pen dragged the screen to the next page. Is this the problem with the pen or the application software?

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Anonymous
2017-11-13T21:35:21+00:00

Hi Swee,

I think what you are seeing are some Pen interaction improvements that were made in the Fall Creators update. 

**Scrolling with pen.**In the effort to create a more intuitive pen interaction on Windows, we are emphasizing natural and direct manipulation of content with pen. You don’t have to “hunt and peck” for scrollbars or frequently switch between pen and touch when navigating; now you can scroll content directly and fluently as you would with your finger.

**Selection with pen.**We also revised selection with pen by giving it more control over the selection process. Not only are we showing selection grippers whenever text is selected via pen, but also are allowing for a consistent and fast selection of content – text, objects, or ink—by dragging the pen while the barrel button is pressed.

For example, if you are in Edge or a Store app you can now select text by quickly double tapping a word and then dragging the selection grippers to adjust the words highlighted OR you can press and hold the pen's barrel button while you highlight the desired text.

Hope this helps,

Greg

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  1. Anonymous
    2017-11-20T10:37:26+00:00

    As a work around until Microsoft fix this, you need to hold down the barrel button on the pen whilst highlighting.

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-01-16T14:09:13+00:00

    Finally i have rollback to the previous version of windows 10 and the highlighting works as usual :

    To uninstall the Fall Creators Update, go to Start > Settings and click on Update & Security.

    Click the Recovery link on the left and then click on Get started under 'Go back to the previous version of Windows 10.'

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  3. Anonymous
    2017-11-25T21:02:03+00:00

    Hello

    I'm facing the same problem. But I think there will be an update that will make the pen input in JW library more in line with the new pen input guidelines of the Fall Creator Update... Untill that, I have found a way to highlight sentences by using the pen.

    1 step

    Put one finger on the JW library windows during all the process (it'll prevent the pen to switch to the next article)

    2 step

    Press and hold the first button on your SP3 pen (not the eraser one) during all the process and highlight.

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  4. Anonymous
    2017-12-13T17:31:52+00:00

    I have had the same problem after the update.

    Finally I found the solution for this!

    1. When you use the pen, it scrolls.
    2. When you use the pen, and hold in the side button, it highlights!

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