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 Setting measurement tool preferences

By default, the ruler, protractor and Geodreieck protractor in SMART Notebook software are blue and display best with light-coloured backgrounds.

You can change these measurement tools’ colour to yellow if you want to use them with dark-coloured backgrounds.

Note 

Completing the following procedure affects the appearance of measurement tools in .notebook files when viewed on your copy of SMART Notebook software only. If you open the same .notebook files on another copy of SMART Notebook software, the measurement tools could display in a different colour.

ClosedTo change the measurement tools’ colour

  1. Select Edit > Preferences.

    The SMART Notebook Preferences dialogue box appears.

  2. Press Defaults.

  3. Select Blue tint (recommended for light backgrounds) in the Measurement tool colour drop‑down list to set the measurement tools’ colour to blue.

    OR

    Select Yellow tint (recommended for dark backgrounds) in the Measurement tool colour drop-down list to set the measurement tools’ colour to yellow.

  4. Press OK.

Also in this section

 Changing the default program for .notebook files

 Setting gesture preferences

 Setting image optimisation preferences

 Setting table cell padding preferences

Related pages

 Using measurement tools

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