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
    2017-11-18T22:39:27+00:00

    How can you go back to the much easier way and not going through so many movements to simply highlight? I don't want to click and hold the pen or all the so called improvements. This update also changed the one click eraser to open onenote.

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  2. 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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  3. Anonymous
    2017-11-23T22:57:26+00:00

    hi I have the same problem I even tried using the barrel button but it still wont highlight in the jw library app but it used to do so just fine before the update

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  4. Anonymous
    2017-11-23T22:59:41+00:00

    It kinda works now but it's very glitchy

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