Surface pen no longer able to highlight the article

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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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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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Anonymous

2018-01-27T00:23:34+00:00

Thank you, Barb, for trying to rescue this thread from the ignorance or doublespeak of Ruz San.

Why on earth would anybody at Microsoft think that, when we swipe our pen across text in Word, we want to scroll the window instead of selecting the text? Does anyone at Microsoft even USE their own products? As coolcity2 pointed out, this forced "pen scrolling" has made it much harder to do very basic functions.
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Anonymous

2018-01-27T00:25:39+00:00

Unfortunately, I can't roll back to the earlier version because 10 days have passed since the update. Thanks for raising this issue and explaining it so well.
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Anonymous

2018-01-29T15:52:22+00:00

Hi, I am having the same problem as everyone here except with use of my Wacom pen and tablet. I have found no useful fixes for this absolutely rediculously unhelpful update other than to literally roll back the Creator's update. This update renders my $250 Wacom pen tablet utterly useless. And yes I have localized it to the Windows update, nothing about the Wacom settings are causing this problem. My workflow is entirely interrupted without ANY option to change back how the pen works to previous options. This is absolutely unacceptable and I hope you guys can fix this asap because I cant get ANY of my much needed work done unless I literally roll back the update. I would greatly appreciate some sort of option in the future as this lack of settings and random decision to overhaul the way a vital function in your operating system is utterly infuriating.
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Anonymous

2018-01-29T15:56:48+00:00

Interestingly, since my last reboot, the highlighting is now working normally. I didn't change anything and it doesn't appear there have been any recent updates since last posts. I'm not sure why this is, if it's temporary or why it now works properly.

@MS, if something was pushed to change this behaviour, please explain.

Greg
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