When you need to communicate mathematical equations or formulas in your notes, you can do that directly on your Mac. Using OneNote, you can insert fractions, exponentials, logarithms, and other mathematical structures in your notes. Get OneNote for free! Works on Windows 7 or later and OS X Yosemite 10.10 or later.
Draw and annotate with ink in onenote for mac
While Macs don’t have a touchscreen, you can use your mouse or trackpad with OneNote for Mac to write notes, highlight portions of text, or draw shapes anywhere on a page.
Note: OneNote for Mac doesn’t currently support converting handwriting to text.
Do the following:
On the ribbon, click the Draw tab.
Note: If you don’t see the Draw tab, you may need to update to the latest version of OneNote for Mac. Check for updates
Select the drawing tool you want to use. There’s a Pen, a Marker, and a Highlighter.
After you’ve chosen your preferred drawing tool, customize your drawing style by doing any of the following:
Select a basic drawing color by clicking one of the four color dots
Select a custom color by clicking the arrow next to the Ink Color button and choosing the exact color you want to use. After selecting a custom color, clicking the Ink Color button will apply that color to any other ink strokes you have selected. To change your custom color selection, click the arrow next to the button again.
Select the stroke thickness for your selected drawing tool by clicking one of the wavy line samples. You can make a new selection at any time to begin drawing with a different stroke thickness.
To erase any parts of a drawing, click the arrow to the right of the Eraser tool, choose the eraser size that you want, and then draw over the ink strokes that you want to erase.
To select any parts of a drawing, either to modify or move them, click the Lasso Select button, drag a selection around the ink strokes you want, and then Control-click the selection for more options.
To erase any parts of a drawing, tap the Eraser tool, and then drag the eraser over the ink strokes that you want to remove.
To stop drawing at any time, click the Text Mode button on the far left of the Draw tab.
Tip: To return to text mode quickly, on the keyboard, press the Esc key.
See Also
Parallels Desktop 12 Update 1 was released a few weeks ago. You can read about all the changes in this update here. In this blog post, I will discuss in some detail only one of the Update 1 features: even greater support for Microsoft Ink. As I wrote about in an earlier blog post, Ink is the ability to annotate or add content to documents with a touch screen or a stylus. Microsoft considers Ink to be a significant step forward in natural interaction with computers, and having used Ink for several months now (and having spent a few minutes using the new Microsoft Surface Studio), I wholeheartedly agree with them.
Alas, as a really longtime Mac user, there wasn’t a way for me to use Ink on the Mac—until Parallels Desktop 12 was released in August. The initial release of Parallels Desktop 12 provided some support for Ink, and now Update 1 increases this support significantly. With Update 1, you can use Ink everywhere it is enabled—in Office for Windows 2016, in third-party apps, and in Windows 10 itself. As discussed in my earlier blog post, my Ink setup uses the Apple Pencil, an iPad Pro, and the AstroPad iPad app (Figure 1).
In Office for Windows 2016
Ink is enabled via the new Draw tabs in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote, which are visible now in Update 1 (Figure 2).
Figure 2
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You can annotate docs of these apps, add new content, and in some cases, Office will help straighten up your Ink drawings. You can even turn your Ink-based scribbles into editable text via the new Ink keyboard in Windows 10.
Figures 3 through 5 show some examples of Ink use in Office 2016:
Figure 4
In Windows 10
Windows 10, in the Anniversary update that was released in August, adds Ink support in a new keyboard and in the several components of a new Ink workspace.
Figure 6 shows the use of this new Ink keyboard for English text entry.
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Figure 6
(As a preview of a later blog post, Figure 7 shows the use of Ink for Japanese text entry.)
Figure 8 shows the new Ink workspace. I’ll write about this workspace also in a later blog post.
Figure 8
In third-party apps
Microsoft is encouraging its third-party developers to use Ink in their apps, and has provided a special pane in the Windows Store to show off these apps (Figure 9).
Haven’t yet tested all of them, but most seem to work well in Parallels Desktop 12 Update 1.
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