Update on Bamboo Fun Pen Tablet

Just after Christmas, I bought a Bamboo Fun pen tablet thinking that everything I needed was included in the package. I blogged about it in a previous post.

I’m still operating on Windows XP instead of Vista,  so it turned out that I didn’t have everything I needed in the original package. I discovered that I needed software to make the Bamboo work with Microsoft Office programs like Word and Excel.

I Googled and found a trial version of JustWrite Office. After the trial period expired, I found that it wasn’t available in the USA, so I contacted the manufacturer of Bamboo, Wacom. The vendor recommended Meander’s Annotator available here, which is not too expensive. I’m now setup to use handwriting in Word, so I’ve done a sample for you below.

I’m still not sure it’s worth all the time and effort, but, for editing clients who don’t use Word’s track changes feature, this might be a way to provide an edited copy without having to resort to postal mail.