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
    2018-04-07T21:10:42+00:00

    I use my pen to edit Word documents. I have a similar problem. Ultimately the select text function of the pen simply is not as intuitive as it used to be. Please tell me how to revert back to the previous settings so I can get my work done.

    That's the point, you cant revert back. That's why we are complaining about it, if there was an easy way to revert back it wouldn't be a problem.

    This change comes as part of the Fall Creators update so the only way to revert back is to uninstall the update or reinstall Windows, which I assume installs the original pre-update version. But even that is only a temporary fix as you can only hold off installing updates fo so long.

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-04-07T20:17:46+00:00

    I use my pen to edit Word documents. I have a similar problem. Ultimately the select text function of the pen simply is not as intuitive as it used to be. Please tell me how to revert back to the previous settings so I can get my work done.

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  3. Anonymous
    2018-03-22T16:25:07+00:00

    Same problem here...Thanks to this thread, now I've known it's because the Fall Creators update.

    Cannot select text by swiping pen really annoys me...Isn't there any official solution now??

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  4. Anonymous
    2018-03-12T13:17:25+00:00

    The only way Microsoft will "see" this is if you use the Feedback Hub App to

    report that the change is not what you prefer.

    >All we can do is keep reporting the "problem" so if any of you know anybody else who feels the same please ask them to add to this thread.

    Yes I'm aware and have already done, that but I'm told they do take notice of articles in these forums if they're popular enough. It's the most effective way to get other users on board. 

    Thank you for bringing it up all the same, not everybody will be aware of the Feedback Hub.

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