PowerPoint and the Wacom Cintiq

Question

I recently purchased a Wacom Cintiq 16, and whilst PowerPoint does recognise the pen (I can use it to create free hand shapes(, i cannot use the pen function. I can select it, however the nothing appears on the screen. It does however work when in presentation mode.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

Hi @Gareth Buchanan ,
What version of Office did you use?
As far as I know, PowerPoint need to enable ink feature, please refer to these support articles:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/draw-and-write-with-ink-in-office-6d76c674-7f4b-414d-b67f-b3ffef6ccf53
https://kb.uwplatt.edu/page.php?id=63146
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