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
    2017-11-23T23:57:23+00:00

    for all you JW library users I have realized that if you press and hold the dial button just before making contact, you wont have any problem highlighting, in a way the update makes it more versatile.

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  2. Anonymous
    2017-11-24T00:53:27+00:00

    Thanks for your help. I finally figured out the "barrel button"  or " dial button" mentioned above. I don't like the fact you have to hold it while highlighting. But those are updates.........

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  3. Anonymous
    2017-11-24T18:14:43+00:00

    np glad it helped

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  4. 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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