wacom BAMBOO tablet

[anemones2]

I am at a college, testing this tablet for a student.

Have to let them know tomorrow.

Firstly the kind lady couldn't get it working.

But windows 7 has a driver, so it does move the mouse, the confusing thing was, in WORD 2010, it seems you can't DO anything with it.

It has the most hidden functions ever and is irritating me.

I have found out in Power Point 2010 you can convert word drawings into text, in their cryptic language.

Which is what the school needs it for.

But it cannot do this in Word though (yay copy paste hell for novices), and I figure out how to draw/mark with it in word, under the reviews tab. of all places.

It needs a context menu.

Anyway. The softwares that came with it only work for windows xp or older.

The wacom website is a balls tortoise.

end of story.

My query is and sorry to take so long to get to it:

Is there a way to change the sensitivity of the tablet, not so much the pressure sens. But when you put the pen over it, you can move, without touching the tablet.

Useful for navigating during making art or so forth. Less false taps.

but can I make it so I can have the pen further away from the tablet surface and still have it register, this would be very useful.

The boy in Gate room, (gifted and talented) might actually be able to use this thing if so.

Thanks sorry for the preamble.

[anemones2]

So much easier to scan to text.

If it needs to be electronic at all.

[Atasas]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_character_recognition

OCR 

but not quite the answer :dunno:

[anemones2]

Yeah ocr is the way.

I mean it gets complicated as soon as you try to do something, the hard way.

@ school.

Why not type notes. or write notes on paper. not both in the same sitting.

lol_lol