Dont have a tablet but with my lappie I can pres ctrl P to call the
annotation pen followed by W to get the "whiteboard". I guess you can do
something similar?

That would be very tricky if it could be done at all.  If you did create a
new slide and place annotations on it, it would not be saved and when the
show ended there goes your annotations.  (I don't believe you can save a
running presentation.)

A better alternative might be to place an object (button?) on the Master
Slide with a hyper link to a *.txt file.  That would fire an instance of
whichever app you have it associated with.  (Notepad by default?)

Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

Provider of PFCMedia      http://www.pfcmedia.com

Trung

I have what you need.  E-mail me off line and I'll forward you a copy of a
one slide presentation that has some VBA code to add a blank slide at the end
of the presentation.

Just copy the VBA code from the "Add a Whiteboard" presentation to the VBA
module in the presentation you want this feature in.  Add a button to the
slide (or slide master) in your presentation and tie the "AddAWhiteboard"
macro to this button.

Then when you want a whiteboard, just click the button and it will create a
whiteboard at the end of the presentation and take you to it.

I tried a couple of things to "soup it up" a little, but they didn't work
too well:

I tried a "Save" button on the whiteboard slide, and it saved the
presentation, but not with the ink markings because they are not saved to the
presentation until you exit the slide show and answer the "save ink markings"
question.  You can get around this by exiting the slide show, saving the ink
markings, and then saving the presentation.

I tried a print button, and it printed the whiteboard slide, but it did not
have any ink markings on it for the same reason that the save button wasn't
effective (because the ink markings aren't saved until you exit the slide
show.  You can get around this by exiting the slide show, saving the ink
markings, and printing the individual whiteboard slide(s).

I also tried a return to previous slide, which worked fine until you put ink
on the slide.  When you change from the arrow-to the pen-and then back to the
arrow, the arrow remains in a visible state (instead of automatic) until you
leave the slide.  Even right-clicking and changing the arrow to automatic
does not allow "the hand" icon to appear when you moved over to the return
button.  You'll just have to remember which slide you came from and then
retun manually to that slide, which is easy enough by entering the slide
number and hitting enter.

Anyway, even with these short comings, it works.  It will give you a
whiteboard and you can save and/or print it once you exit the slide show view.

E-mail me at Ronald.W.Kiker@nasa.gov and I'll be glad to send you the file.

Ron