Now simply drawing a line with your mouse can lead to these messy jagged lines like these bad boys:īefore you begin to use your mouse to draw the line, hold down the shift key and you’re get a line as straight as the backbone of a herring. (The Shift key is a well known trick for those familiar with Adobe Photoshop and other programs.I've seen this question posted on here before ( Why can I only paint straight lines in Photoshop CS6?) but my situation and tablet are a bit different.

Then select the Line from the Shapes menu. Open up Color & Thickness menu to make your selections. Head over to your Draw Tab in the Ribbon and skip over the Drawing Tools completely. Evil is going to sic his sharks with frickin’ laser beams attached to their heads on me unless I draw a straight line RIGHT FREAKIN’ NOW” scenario. Yes, yes, I can hear many of you starting to type frantically into the Comment section – “ stop complaining and just buy a Surface Pro 3 already!” One day, my friends, one day, but not today so let’s treat this post as a “Dr. This is because I can’t anchor my hand on the device like I would with a pen and paper or a stylus and tablet.

It’s not OneNote’s fault – I do not have a stylus so I am relying on my mouse or finger and the result ends up shaky.

I find that my attempts to use the drawing tool in OneNote end up sloppy. I usually use Snagit Editor as it has powerful annotation tools – there are varied options and the result is polished and precise. I wanted to annotate a PDF to clearly point out the required revisions to a colleague.

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