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How to lock drawing mode when using mouse/pen?
Hi gardios ,
I can't repro...
Can you find something useful in https://support.office.com/en-us/article/draw-and-sketch-notes-on-a-page-e34b425a-9431-4b73-b52d-63c44a67f67a ?
Kind regards
Hans
Thanks for your reply. I did see the link before, and the problem is exactly that my OneNote does not behave the way described there:
"To cancel drawing mode, press the Esc key on your keyboard, or click the Type button on the Draw tab."
This happens to me automatically, immediatelly after ending the first drawing move. So I don't have to press Esc or do anything, I am automatically in the Type mode and I see the Type button has been selected for me already, so the only way to continue drawing is to choose Draw explicitly again, but this is obviously pointless, if I have to go back for every single line.
The same happens with "Draw with Touch".
On the other hand the part "To draw several shapes in a row" does work for me, but ironically only if I really want to draw SHAPES like circles, rectangles and so on, but it does not apply when I choose a pen. So just simply writing with a pen cannot be locked.
It is indeed a shame for such a nice and otherwise useful piece of software to behave so irationally in this case for me. I basically cannot use a pen in any meaningful way.
I understand that you cannot reproduce it. There is something somewhere in the settings that causes this behavior and I just do not know what it is.