Tips

If you want to draw a quick sketch, say a map to your office, and email it to a friend, simply draw it in the enotate PC application. Then select File Send Email. You will get an email dialog box into which you can then type the email address of the recipient and any explanatory text. When you choose Send, the email message with an attached .jpg file of your sketch will be placed in the outbox of your email package.

enotate works with email applications that use MAPI, which include most of today's popular packages. Your preferred email client should be set as the Windows default.

The default file format for files in the enotate PC application is enotate's native .ldf format. If you are going to send the annotated file to someone who does not have enotate, use Save As to save your files in .jpg. Then non-enotate owners will be able to view it.

If you are sending email from the enotate PC application, the default is .jpg. Graphics from enotate are handled as ordinary graphic elements in Word and PowerPoint so no special Save As is needed.

To send someone a document with enotate annotations who does not have enotate, simply email the marked up document file. It will contain the enotate graphics, which will be visible to the recipient in Word,
PowerPoint, Excel, or the PC's default graphics program.

You can delete enotate annotations from a Word document using the Word drawing tool. enotate annotations are drawing objects in Word. First, display the drawing tool bar, select View, Tool Bars, Drawing from the Word menu bar. Then click on the Select Objects icon (the white arrow) and draw (click and drag) a box around the enotate annotations you wish to delete, cut, or copy. However the easiest way to clear annotations from a document send to you by someone, is by downloading a FREE copy of the enotate add-in macros.

enotate annotations are Office drawing objects, so if you select by dragging and then delete, all graphic elements within the selection box will be deleted, not just enotate annotations.

You cannot draw a box with the Word drawing tool around an item in the drawing area. Move the drawing area away from the item.

You can zoom in and out from the PC by changing the size of the drawing area, just as you would enlarge or shrink a graphic or a Window. Just move the mouse to one of the drawing area corners (you will see a double-headed arrow).

In Word, Excel or PowerPoint, Clear Screen from the handheld device clears the entire page/slide/document ; not just what is visible on the handheld device display. Use the PDA Contrast Sharpen option to adjust the clarity of pictures. (Sharpen was not designed for improving the text display.)

While the highlighter feature in the Office applications may appear too heavy on the display, it will be easily viewable when printed. Note that highlighter is not a feature in the enotate application. Don't try to make your windows smaller than the drawing area. The New Window feature (Window menu) is not currently supported and can prevent enotate from functioning correctly if used.

Make sure that when pasting a cut or copied image, you do not perform any actions (e.g. Clear Screen) before you actually do the paste.

You may not be able to see your annotations on the handheld if using enotate with PowerPoint's black screen mode. However, they will appear on the PC presentation when the slide is viewed. As with any PC-based software, the more system memory one has, the better the overall performance. We recommend a minimum of 64MB.