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Getting started with your SMART Board interactive overlay

Using your SMART Board interactive overlay, you can write, draw and erase digital ink, manipulate objects and browse content on the screen.

Note 

You can change the mouse and gesture settings to accommodate the way you and other users touch the screen. In addition, you need to enable single-touch gestures, multitouch gestures and Touch Recognition to use several of the gestures described below. For more information, see Changing mouse and gesture settings.

Writing, drawing and erasing digital ink

Using the pen supplied with your interactive overlay, you can write or draw digital ink.

To write or draw digital ink

  1. Pick up the pen.

  2. Write or draw on the screen.

    Tip 

    Don’t rest your elbow or the palm of your hand on the screen while you’re writing.

To erase digital ink

Manipulating objects

Objects include icons, buttons, links and other components of programs that appear on your screen. You can manipulate these objects using your interactive overlay as described below.

Note 

Some applications and operating systems don’t support all of the gestures described below.

To select or clear the selection of an object

To double-click an object

To right-click an object

To move an object

  1. Press and hold the object.

  2. Keeping your finger on the object, slowly move the object.

  3. When you reach the position you want to move the object to, release your finger.

    Note 

    If you press and hold an object, and then quickly flick your finger in any direction, the object continues to move after you release it.

    Flick gesture

To resize an object

  1. Using one finger on each hand, press the screen at opposite ends of the object.

  2. Drag your fingers in opposite directions to enlarge the object.

    Scale (enlarge) gesture

    OR

    Drag your fingers toward each other to reduce the object.

    Scale (reduce) gesture

To rotate an object

  1. Using one finger on each hand, press the screen at opposite ends of the object.

  2. Rotate your fingers in the direction you want to rotate the object.

    Rotate gesture

  3. When you reach the angle you want to rotate the object to, release your fingers.

Browsing

In addition to manipulating objects, you can browse content on your screen.

Note 

Some applications and operating systems don’t support all of the gestures described below.

To display the next page

To display the previous page

To zoom in or out

  1. Using one finger on each hand, press the screen at opposite ends.

  2. Drag your fingers in opposite directions to zoom in.

    Pinch to zoom in gesture

    OR

    Drag your fingers toward each other to zoom out.

    Pinch to zoom out gesture

To pan

  1. Using two fingers on the same hand, press and hold the screen.

  2. Keeping your fingers on the screen, move up, down, left or right.

    Pan gesture

  3. When you reach the area you want to view, release your fingers.