How to lock drawing mode when using mouse/pen?

Hi hansleroy 

thanks again for your answer. I work on a ThinkPad laptop and I can see two versions of OneNote: one called simply OneNote (that one requires all work to be saved in the cloud) and the other one called OneNote 2016. The two versions look slightly different, but the problem is absolutely the same in both of them. That makes me guess that the problem is maybe in some general settings on my computer how the clicks on the touchpad are interpreted, which could be independent of the OneNote application. If it helps, I noticed the following two phenomena that I find really curious: 

(1) If I draw a connected line using the left click on my mouse (or finger on the touchpad) that ends at the same place where it started (so any closed line, for example a circle or an 8 and so on), then after I release it does not switch to the type mode, so I am allowed to move the pointer and draw another line at a different place. If this new line is close as well, then I can continue. The first time however when I draw a line that is not closed (for example if I write 1), it switches automatically back to type mode after I release the mouse left button or lift my finger from the touchpad. 

(2) If I draw any connected line that is not closed as in point (1) by moving my finger on the touchpad, and if I press the left click button above my touchpad while my finger is still on the touchpad, then when I lift my finger while still holding the left button, it does not switch to the type mode, so I am allow to move the pointer and draw a new line. However, in this way I manage to draw only two lines, since as long as I am done with the second line or release the left click, it switches back to type mode. 

Yes, I find this whole behavior mysterious, but maybe it can give someone a clue about the issue.