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
    2017-12-25T20:35:11+00:00

    In using the JW Library app, the only way to highlight now is to do it one word at a time with the surface pen? I dont think thats an improvement. Using a touch screen tablet with a scrolling bar and maybe a mouse or even the trackpad has to be enough options for scrolling. I thought it was nice to have the pen highlight automatically in reading apps. Is there any way to change this?

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-01-01T16:33:05+00:00

    Why my surface pen no longer highlight my reading material? It drag the page to the left.

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  3. Anonymous
    2018-01-05T05:19:10+00:00

    why do updates make things worst? The pen was just fine now i have to press a button to highlight text how is that intuitive. what you have created is a mouse shaped like a pen. so lets call it what it is a downgrade so that your pen is like a mouse. Why not bring windows 95 back while your at it.

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  4. Anonymous
    2018-01-07T12:37:39+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

    Hey there! It works for text selection, but I don't really have a way to edit my Google Calendar or Wunderlist anymore without getting a mouse. Before this I could scroll around my calendar with my fingers and drag around my entries with the pen. I can't find a way to do this again.

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