hi this is march from the whiteboard
team you might think that you need a
digital pen to use whiteboard for
Windows 10 or at least a touchscreen but
this video is about unlocking the power
of whiteboard using your mouse and
keyboard Microsoft whiteboard is a place
to bring people their content and ideas
together and many people do that using
their laptop or desktop computer the
first thing I want to do is show you how
easy it is to capture your thoughts and
ideas by typing you can easily insert a
text box from the toolbar or by
right-clicking on the board and
selecting the text icon often you might
have text you want to include in the
whiteboard from somewhere else you can
easily copy that text to your clipboard
and then paste it into whiteboard by
right-clicking on the board and
selecting the paste option or by
pressing control V will list all the
shortcuts in this video in the
description below since we're a
whiteboard app we of course include the
trusty sticky note while someone with
the pen might draw or write on the
sticky you can also type on it to insert
a note you can right-click on the board
or you can use the toolbar you can
double click on a sticky to start typing
you can also insert emoji if you want to
bring up the emoji picker while you're
typing just press the Windows key period
and it'll pop right up as well as
pasting text you can also paste
hyperlinks you copied from the browser
into whiteboard just copy the hyperlink
and press ctrl V to paste it into
whiteboard as you can see we create a
card with a preview of the website this
is useful for collecting links related
to a project you're working on so having
covered typing and pasting text into
whiteboard let's talk about getting your
documents in there too you can easily
insert Word PowerPoint or PDF documents
again you can right click anywhere in
the canvas to bring up the floating menu
and there you can see how to insert the
documents or you can use the bottom
toolbar let's insert a PDF
once you pick your document whiteboard
will display a preview of all of the
pages or slides in that document and you
can choose to insert some or all of
those pages now one thing that's great
about having a digital pen is you can
draw things to express an idea while
drawing with the mouse is pretty
challenging whiteboard can trace over
pictures of diagrams and drawings and
turn them into real digital ink let me
show you by inserting this PDF of a map
of the United States once I have it
inserted if I click on the map you'll
see this magic wand icon in the menu we
call this ink grab and if you click on
it we'll start tracing over the image
and turning it into real ink this is
powerful because once the image has been
turned into ink you can change the color
of it you can also click on the inking
button on the bottom of the toolbar and
use the erase tool to erase part of the
image and the lasso tool to be able to
select part of what was previously a
static image and is now inked and move
it somewhere else and use it now another
way to express an idea or inspire
yourself during a project is to search
the web for images and insert them you
can do this by clicking on the image
icon in the toolbar and selecting being
image you can then search for any image
that you would like by default we only
show images where the owner has given
permission for anyone to use them you
can also switch to see any images from
bings image search either way we always
filter images to only show appropriate
content let's insert that picture of the
surface laptop now Bing
search is powerful not just for finding
photos but for finding diagrams and
worksheets you might find helpful
insert images from your computer or from
your webcam and insert them too now that
we've gotten all your ideas and
documents and other content onto the
whiteboard let me show you a powerful
feature of whiteboard called templates
so whiteboard has templates to help with
various activities such as brainstorming
and problem solving and retrospectives
will go ahead and insert an effective
meeting template templates are great to
use to help structure your meetings and
projects each templates contain
instructions on how to best use the
template a title and some lists and
sticky note galleries for capturing the
agenda follow-ups and thoughts from your
meeting just like the text box and
sticky notes you can double click on any
area and just start typing with your
keyboard I want to finish up with some
mouse and keyboard shortcuts that will
really save you time as you're using
whiteboard for Windows 10 now we've
already covered copy and paste ctrl-c
and ctrl-v
you can also undo and redo any action by
pressing ctrl Z and control Y and this
will work for typing or change the color
or inserting or moving anything and so I
can press control Z and it will undo
what I just did last I can also press
control Y and it will redo it these
commands are also available on the right
side of the toolbar now sometimes you
want to select more than one object at
once so the way to select an object is
just to click on it but if you want to
select more than one object a shortcut
to use the lasso tool is to hold down
the shift key and then drag and you'll
get a rectangle selection tool and when
you select it you'll have selected any
objects that were inside of that
rectangle and you can move them as one
group now sometimes you might want to
select everything that's available on
the whiteboard and to do that you can
press ctrl-a and everything will
temporarily become selected
now we talked about before that if you
want to access any of the insertable
items you can right click and you will
see the insert menu anywhere on the
canvas that you right-click now zooming
is important in whiteboards so you can
zoom in on details and then zoom out to
see the whole board if your mouse has a
scroll wheel you can use the scroll
wheel to zoom in and out on mouse
otherwise you can use two fingers up and
down on your track pad to control
zooming now one thing you might want to
do is carefully control the way an
object moves its size or how its rotated
using the keys so you can do that let's
insert an object here now when I select
it the arrow keys move it around
little by little you can see that I'm
just pressing the arrow keys to make it
move I can also resize it by holding
down the shift key and then pressing up
and down on my arrow keys you'll want to
resize anything image texts templates
sticky notes and then finally you can
rotate objects by holding down the Alt
key and then using the left and right
arrow keys and you can rotate objects if
you want to do that okay so today we
have focused on how to use Microsoft
whiteboard without a pen hopefully you
have learned a thing or two here about
ways to use the powerful features in
whiteboard and then to use them as
efficiently as possible thank you