Hey everyone, Daniel here from TwinBytes and I got a quick little tutorial for you here on
Microsoft's Whiteboard, which comes with Windows 10. Might find it handy for
creating some videos or tutorials with of your own, if you're doing
some kind of seminars; so here it is...
Built into the Windows 10, you want to go into the Microsoft Store through the Start menu;
In the store you can go over to the search field and type in "whiteboard"
and the first thing that comes up in the list here is the Microsoft whiteboard app.
So we'll go ahead and select that.
and when it comes up here it shows you it's from the Microsoft Corporation and it is free;
so you can just go ahead and click on the get button to download and install it.
If you get the prompt here to use it across all your devices, it wants you to
sign in with your Microsoft account to use that. If you want to, and you have a
Microsoft account, you can sign in, otherwise you can just skip that.
So now it says that we can go ahead and install it.
So once it's done, you can go ahead and launch it right from here, and it even
gives you an option to pin it to your Start menu as well; but you can always go
into the Start menu and add it manually from there, just like any other program.
Once it opens for the first time you may get this update policy notice that
you have to accept. Then we can go ahead and click get started.
So it gives you a little tutorial when you first open it.
You can go ahead and just click "let's go".
Again it's asking us to sign in.
Ok and now we're going to show you how to use the actual whiteboard.
So starting from the top here, we've got arrow pointing to the left.
If we click over there, it takes us back to creating a new whiteboard or we can select from some existing ones that we have open.
We can see the previews of some of the existing whiteboards if we
want it to work with them, or we can click on them to select it or click on
the three dots here and we can actually delete it. We can also invite
participants from here and export it out right from here, but we're gonna just
delete this. I'm gonna click on this one to use which is blank but I already
have a blank one open, so no need to open another blank one. Moving over to the top
right corner we've got the little person with a plus sign. This allows us to share
the canvas online with anybody that we send the link to. So it could be through
a Skype chat or a phone conversation and we've just email them the link and
you're able to follow along right from their computer wherever they happen to be
in the world. We also have my account that I'm signed in under, we can sign out
from there and sign in is a different user.
Then the gears, we've got a couple of different options here to look at.
I'm going to go through each one of them. We've got a cool feature here to convert
the shapes that we draw into proper shapes. We can also make tables and if
you have a pen you can use on a touchscreen, whether it's a tablet or a
laptop, desktop, that happens to have a touchscreen and you have one of those
special pens, it's different from using your finger. If you use your finger, it'll
move the canvas around, but if you use an active pen that will do the actual drawing.
You can also export your images that you're happy with and here is where we
can clear the canvas if you really screw up and want to start over again.
Other than that you can send your feedback, get some help, and to find out
more about the product. So let's start with the shapes here; going down; now you
can see we got a bunch of different colored pens we can choose from, and if I
draw a shape that's something simple enough that I shouldn't manage to screw
up and somehow I managed to still do that wrong...
alright so even though it's really squiggly lines, they don't mind as long
as it connects properly. So you can see that it converted the horrible square I
did into a perfect square and if I was to try and do a circle, and of course I'm
using a mouse, so it's a little harder to do. I thought that looked like a pretty
good circle. There! Doing it fast is sometimes easier. So it took me three
tries this time around I got a perfect circle. So you can do this with any shape
as long as you're close to the design of what you're looking for, it will actually
do that shape for you. So you can experiment with the shapes and see how
skilled you are at doing that and right now I seem to be on a roll like a boss.
So that's pretty awesome, and then this is where I screw up... Murphy's Law, yep!
Anyway there are some multicolored pens that they have here and there's also a highlighter
in case you want to highlight things. They have an eraser so if you really
screw up and want to wipe things out you can do that. Now one of the things with
the eraser you can see here is that I wiped out everything except it will not
erase your perfect shapes. It only erases everything else around it, but it will
not erase the perfect shape. Now I'm going to go back up here for a moment,
and clear the canvas.
Then I'm gonna explain to you the table options. So if we actually go
in here and choose a color. First I want to start off by drawing a perfect square,
or a rectangle, and then I draw one line straight down from top to bottom
anywhere inside that box it turns it into a table!
Now with this table you can see that we have a minus and a plus sign. So I can
actually use these to increase the number of columns and rows of the table.
And this table seems to be off alignment, so it's a little bit off the screen.
So what I want to do, there's two ways of doing this; If I use the middle mouse
button I can scroll up and down to zoom in and out, but if I click this little
checkbox, then it switches me to navigation mode. So I can click and drag
any shapes and images around on the screen. Then clicking the squiggly line
here for writing takes me back in here to writing mode. So now I'm able to
actually start drawing maybe some shapes and
as horrible as they might be, and if you draw something that's a little bit
bigger than what it can hold, then it increases the size of that cell, so the
table grows with that. So you can see we've got the highlighter here as well
and our eraser we can work with that in here and the eraser doesn't affect our
table; although as I erase this massive image that's in here and get rid of it,
it doesn't require as much space, so the table size shrinks right back down again.
okay so let's go and clear this canvas again; and I want to show you the ruler.
The ruler is pretty cool. What I can do now is select the pen and anywhere close
to it even if I'm on the ruler a little bit, actually I got to start off of it,
but I can go onto it once I start clicking and drag down along it;
pick another color and start close to it and whether I'm on or off the ruler
doesn't matter, as long as I'm close to it. Then I can click on the ruler and
drag it to move it out of the way if I want to; and I can see that it's made
those two lines now using the middle mouse button, while having the mouse
positioned on the ruler, I'm able to scroll and I can move
ruler as well to try and line up the lines here on the ruler with the lines
that I drew to make it perfect; and then choose the color of my pen, be close
again and then I got my perfect lines. Now I just click on the ruler one more
time to hide it, and there we are. I got a perfect tic-tac-toe box and a
non-perfect circle. We'll try one more time to see if I could manage that, OH YES I DID!
Okay and now what we want to look at is this lasso option. If I select that,
I can click and drag to highlight one of the images that I drew. From here I can
make a copy of it, I can cut it, I can delete it, or add a note to it. So if I
copy that and click somewhere else over here right click and paste. Now it moves
the image over here. Now if I wanted to move it again, I can highlight it and
then cut it or copy it to move it, but if I only want it to move it just slightly,
what I'd have to do is click down here on the check mark; I'm into
selection view, I can then click on the image to select it
I can actually do that, and now I can move it. And I can I can position it
precisely where I want. And if I want it to add a note to it, I can add a note.
Just in case you weren't sure of what that image is. When you click on it again
and select the note icon you're able to see your note that you wrote previously.
okay so in here we also have a undo and a redo; so if I was to draw something
here I can undo it and then there's a redo of course, in case you accidently
undo too many things. Clicking back to this other view which
is the selection view. We also have an undo and a redo button. Over here we're
able to paste something that was copied into the clipboard from anywhere on your
computer. We can also search online for images or even use your webcam which of
course I got mine cover it up, so you're not gonna see anything here, but you can
take the picture, crop it, hit done, and it imports your picture right into here, and
as long as we're in this selection view, I'm able to drag this selfie I took
anywhere onto the screen. There's also a notepad or a virtual sticky note
which I can move around here.
and when you select it you can see here that you can also do copy, cut, delete, and
as funny as it is, you can add a note to the note.
Not sure why you would want to do that,
but I think it's just because it's another image and it was just as
easy for them to leave that feature there. The three dots in the bottom right
corner of this allows you to change the color of your sticky note as well,
incase you have multiple of them. We have a image import option so you can
import an image from your computer and that's all of those options in the
selection view; we've gone through the options of the drawing view, and I
believe we've gone through everything on here, and of course you can export the
image if you're happy with your end results. And you always have the clear
canvas like we've used a few times. Anyway that is it for my review and
setting up and using the Microsoft Whiteboard.
I'll have links to the products that we discussed in the description box below
If you'd like to share your comments about what you think of the Microsoft whiteboard;
would you be using it in future videos? Should I be using it for some discussions?
Will you be using it maybe for school or at work possibly? For collaboration? Let me know
in the comments below. Alright, thanks again for watching and don't forget to
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