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Microsoft has released a preview of their Whiteboard app for Windows 10 which includes collaboration options if you’ve got an Office 365 account. Here’s how you can try it, with help on some features.
You can use the Whiteboard on your own or with a group online (combined with audio/video conferencing). To use the collaboration features, one of the participants needs an Office 365 account.
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This is a very ordinary app, even for a public preview. We’re reluctant to be harsh on this preview app but it’s a good example of why Windows 10 apps haven’t got a lot of interest. There’s little online help or hints about what the app can do.
The current version is limited by an opaque interface which is hard to grasp with no help for newbies to the app. Some telepathic connection to the development team seems to be the only way to discover the options available (or not).
The current preview crashes regularly (good thing it has autosave). Here’s what we found during the apps lucid moments.
Click the Gear box at the top right corner in internet explorer. Click the Connections tab, and then click LAN settings. Delete all files windows 8. Click the Tools button, and then click Internet Options. Uncheck the option “Use a Proxy Server for your LAN”.
Toolbar
The main toolbar looks like this, but only when the app window is wide enough.
If the window isn’t wide enough, some tools like the highlighter and ruler just disappear! If you’re wondering where a certain tool is, widen the app window. Unlike the Office ribbon which shows everything even in a very narrow window.
The tools, left to right are; Full Screen, Undo, Redo, Delete whole whiteboard, ‘Finger Inking’ (mouse or touch), a variety of pens with no color selections, eraser, selector, Send Feedback, Web Search, Settings.
Settings
There are two settings at the moment.
Ink to Shape
Converts your drawing into a shape, like a circle, square or rectangle. Office 2016 Windows for Office 365 has a similar feature.
Ink to Table
Draw a square/rectangle then lines inside to make a grid. That should work, similar to the Draw Table tool in Word,
We could not get this to work. The lack of help, typical of Windows 10 apps, means there’s no direct way to find out. Microsoft’s app design doesn’t seem to include any proper provisions for help. That would not be a problem if the apps were as intuitive as Microsoft hype boasts. We had to dig around the Microsoft site to find this out-of-date page which, at least, has some guidance on Whiteboard features.
Insert pictures
Insert an image by Copy / Paste or drag and drop from Explorer.
Ruler
The ruler becomes an overlay on the screen
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- one finger will move the ruler up/down or left/right.
- two fingers rotates the ruler.
- three fingers rotates the ruler by 5° jumps.
Straight lines
Draw a straight line by select a pen or highlighter then drawing along the edge of the ruler.
Tap and hold or right-click for some options for images and shapes.
Copy, Cut, Delete and add alternative text.
Extra tools
Tap and hold/right-click on a blank part of the screen.
Paste, Insert Image, add ‘Post-it’ like Note, add image from camera.
Once you have your finished whiteboard, what can you do with it? Not a lot, at the moment. The Share option has the limited Windows 10 app options with nothing related to Microsoft Office (except OneNote).
There’s no simple option to save the whiteboard to a plain image (there was but it’s been dropped from the current public releases). No versioning to keep interim versions of the whiteboard.
Infinite Whiteboard
Each virtual Whiteboard has an ‘infinite’ size. Microsoft says that’s a good thing, but we found it difficult to navigate.
We could not find any zooming options. Occasionally a ‘100%’ tip appears so presumably there’s some zoom option available, but where? Without proper help or even a complete toolbar it’s a mystery.
Moving objects around is a hit/miss affair.
Hoping for better
We hope the Whiteboard app will develop into something good but this version had no business being released to the public. People are only going to be disappointed and frustrated when the Whiteboard hype doesn’t come close to the December 2017 reality.
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Microsoft Corp. today opened up a public beta of its collaboration Whiteboard app to all users with a Windows 10 device.
Microsoft Whiteboard was introduced earlier this year, when the company launched its new Surface Pro. Until now the collaboration app has been available in a private beta, but Microsoft has now opened it up to all users.
The Whiteboard app provides similar features to the experience available on Microsoft’s expensive Surface Hub. Businesses that don’t have the space or money for the Surface Hub can use the Whiteboard app to collaborate and brainstorm concepts and designs with co-workers across devices.
The Microsoft Whiteboard Preview is rolling out to all Windows 10 devices, set to English, over the next 24 hours. The company plans to roll the app out to additional languages in the “coming months.”
Windows 10 recently passed 600 million monthly active users, the majority of these are on personal computers, but the number also includes Xbox Ones, Windows 10 Mobile phones, HoloLens and Surface Hub. While the Whiteboard app is currently only available for Windows 10 devices, considering the recent rollout of the Microsoft Edge browsing app to Android and iOS, this could change in the future.
How to get started with Microsoft Whiteboard
To get started, you can download the Whiteboard app from the Microsoft Store on your Windows 10 device. The Whiteboard Preview app will eventually replace the existing Whiteboard app on the Surface Hub, so you can download it and use it alongside the existing one.
Once you have installed the app, you will need to signin with your Microsoft account.
Ink feature
If using a device with an active pen, you can draw on the screen to display the ink and pan in and out using your fingers.
Alternatively, for passive devices, you can use the finger painting mode and use your finger to draw on the display. When the mode is disabled, you can zoom in and out using your fingers.
No matter the device you are using, you will have access to a variety of color pens, highlighters, and erasers, displayed at the bottom of the screen.
Draw straight lines
The on-screen ruler will allow you to draw straight lines and align objects on your board.
On your whiteboard, tap the Ruler icon at the bottom of the screen. To position the ruler on the screen, use one finger to move it up, down or sideways; two fingers will rotate the ruler to a specific angle; three fingers will rotate the ruler by five-degree increments.
To draw a straight line, select a color pen or highlighter and draw along the ruler’s edge.
Draw precise shapes
You can transform hand-drawn shapes into precise shapes using the Ink to Shape feature. Once enabled, the feature will automatically transform your drawing on the whiteboard into the exact shape. The feature will work with squares, rectangles, triangles, circles, hexagons, pentagons, and parallelograms.
Tip: To revert back to your original ink shape drawing, simple tap the Undo button.
You can enable or disable the Ink to Shape feature in Settings.
Create tables
To draw a table on your whiteboard, simply draw a square and wait for the Whiteboard app to recognize it. You can then bisect the square with horizontal and vertical lines.
Use the “+” or “-” symbols to add or remove columns and rows. You can also use the highlighter tool to highlight specific cells in the table.
To delete content in the table simply use the eraser tool. It will first erase the content before erasing the entire table.
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Add pictures, sticky notes to your digital whiteboard
To add images to your whiteboard, simply copy them from an app or browser and paste it onto your whiteboard. Alternatively, to insert an image from your device, right-click or press and hold > select the Image button > select your images from the File Explorer.
Once you have added pictures to your whiteboard, you can stack them on top of each other. Move a picture over another one until the Stack button appears > hover over the Stack button while moving the object to create a stack.
To add a sticky note, open the context menu and select Notes. You can write on the sticky notes and stack them like pictures.
Collaborate with others
To allow for collaboration on the Whiteboard app, at least one participant needs to have an active Office 365 subscription. While signed in, you can start a collaboration session by tapping the Invite button (displayed next to your name) > copy the link and paste it into a messaging app or email to share it with team members.
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Note: The collaboration feature is currently only available for people within the same organization. Microsoft plans to offer the option to collaborate with people outside an organisation in the coming months.
Click the Bird’s Eye View (lower left-hand corner) to see your full whiteboard and any other team members currently working on it. To access your other whiteboards, simply sign in and then click the back arrow (upper left-hand corner) to see all your existing whiteboards.
Source: Office Support
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