Sketchpad has completely disappeared from Ink Workspace

Anonymous
2019-08-08T21:05:51+00:00

I have tried rebooting and turning Ink workspace on and off from settings and taskbar. It is only showing me Whiteboard and Fullscreen snip. Did Windows do away with sketchpad, forcing me to login with a Windows ID to use Whiteboard? Or is this a bug from a recent update? Or is there anything else I can try?

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  1. Anonymous
    2019-09-18T14:00:14+00:00

    I'd just like to add my voice crowd. I much preferred the sketchpad the the whiteboard. I don't see why we can't just have both options. Also, using the whiteboard when I wasn't connected to the internet kept causing a error message to pop up - very annoying.

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  2. Anonymous
    2019-09-19T06:58:33+00:00

    This update has completely ruined my Microsoft Surface.  I have been using it for crossword solving and setting for 2 months faultlessly - and it suddenly no longer let's me do either of these.

    I remember why I swapped to the Mac ten years ago now.  I'd been told Microsoft had stopped this sort of stunt with Windows 10 - evidently not.

    What a mess.

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  3. Anonymous
    2019-09-20T18:43:34+00:00

    Wow- finally I see I'm not the ony one. Took me hours today to figure this out.

    I have a brand new HP Envy (just a few days ago), and installed Win10pro, MS Office Pro and had the ink workspace. Looks good to me, so I ordered the HP Tilt Pen - ready for the future.

    Hell no! I received the tilt pen today, and the ink-space was not showing up anymore.

    Thought is had to do with drivers for this pen/stylus. but it's not.

    So I spend a lot of money (almost EUR 2000), now leaving me with a tilt pen that doesn't support the tilt option anymore. Just after a few hours I received it.

    Called the HP support and they told me that the tilt option is only available in Sketchpad and not whiteboard.....

    Glad to see it has nothing to do with the hardware itself, just stupid sw engineers.

    As-we-speak I am busy rolling back updates, and kill the updates voor next few months. Hope MSoft will give a good alternative in the mean time.

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  4. Anonymous
    2019-09-21T04:45:04+00:00

    Sketchpad was the killer app for the Surface Pen. Now it's gone. I was planning on buying the first Surface Pro that came out with USB-C charging. Now I'm not.

    Great job, Microsoft.

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  5. Anonymous
    2019-09-21T05:27:59+00:00

    So far this is the best alternative that I've found:

    https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/inkpaint/9nblggh4vww6

    It's not quite as minimal, and it has an annoying pop-up on launch, but at least it isn't Whiteboard.

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