In Part One of this series I suggested disabling the TIP
icon because lets face it – taskbar real estate is a scarce resource.
As much as I love ActiveWords I don’t like the default
placement of the inkpad icon. The good news is you can change it.
I un-dock the Ink Pad icons and configure it to be semi
transparent. To do this:
1.
Right-click the Ink Pad icon in the System Tray (not
the big one on the Taskbar)
2.
Select Undock
3.
Right-click the Ink Pad icon in the System Tray
4.
Select settings
5.
Adjust the transparency to suit. You may also want to
change the “show Inkpad on” setting to Click.
By default this puts the inkpad in the top left corner but I
find it gets in the way of menus there. I prefer it towards the bottom right
corner. To move it:
1.
Right-click the Ink Pad icon in the System Tray
(again!)
2.
Select Show size handles
3.
This puts two white boxes on your floating Ink Pad
icon. Dragging the top left one moves the icon, dragging the other one resizes
it.
The other tweak I perform for ActiveWords is to Hide the
monitor bar.Just right click the ActiveWords icon and select AWMonitorBar >
Hide monitor bar