Most pen gestures work on the currently selected object or objects. You'll also need to select topics and objects to format them or use other editing commands on them.
Pen Mode offers special editing commands for ink topics and sketches. These commands appear in a mini-toolbar on the topic or object and on the Ribbon.
You can drag any object to a new location, and use gestures to cut, copy, paste and delete topics.
What do you want to do?
To select a single topic or object:
Tap the object.
To select multiple topics or objects:
On the Home tab, in the Editing group, tap the Select arrow, and then tap Multiselection Mode.
Tap and drag a rectangle that touches all the objects you want to select. To select or de-select additional objects, tap on the object.
To end Multiselection Mode On the Home tab, in the Editing group, tap the Select arrow, and then tap Multiselection Mode.
To deselect all objects:
Tap on an empty place on the map
You can also use the Power Select command to select a set of topics based on their properties.
In Pen Mode you can edit both ink topics and regular text topics.
Double-tap to begin editing. If you selected an ink topic, the Ink entry box will appear so you can add or edit ink.
Use the commands in the Insert tab, Ink group or in the mini-toolbar to edit the ink.
Select it using the Ink
Selector 
then choose a new line thickness
or color, resize or move it.
Use the Eraser
to remove ink.
Use the Undo 
or Redo 
gestures to undo or redo
your changes.
You can also edit regular text topics, relationships, and boundaries in the normal way. Tap to select an object, (for example to re-shape a relationship) or double-tap to begin editing a text topic, or see the formatting options for other objects.
Double-tap on the sketch to begin editing.
Add
more ink, or modify the exiting sketch: Select ink using the Ink Selector
then choose a new line thickness or color, move it, or resize it.
Use
the Eraser
to remove ink.
To resize the entire sketch, select it and drag its corner handles.
Tap the Home tab, Format group, Fill Color arrow to choose a different background color for the sketch. (The default color is set in the MindManager Tablet PC options).
Use the Undo or Redo gestures to undo or redo your changes.
The basic procedure for moving an object on a map is to select it (tap) and drag it to its new location. See Reorganize topics for information on moving topics.
You can also use the cut 
,
copy 
and paste 
gestures to rearrange or duplicate topics.
To delete an object, select the object(s)
then draw the delete gesture nearby - 
.
You may want to convert the handwritten topics that you added in Pen Mode into text. One good reason to convert is that ink topics take more file space than text topics. Converting the handwriting to text will make your map smaller.
You can use the Ink to Text Converter in either Pen Mode or Mouse Mode to convert ink topics to text using handwriting recognition.
Do one of the following:
Right-click or tap and hold on a topic to see the context menu, then click or tap Convert Ink to Text, then Ink to Text Converter
On the Extras tab, in the Tablet group, click Ink to Text.
The converter steps through each ink topic on the map. For each topic you have the following choices:
Replace with |
The menu shows up to five possible text choices. You can select one of these or enter your own text. This text replaces the ink when you select Accept. |
Accept all |
Accepts the first suggestion for all ink topics on the map and replaces the handwriting with the new text. |
Accept |
Converts the ink to the current suggestion and moves on to the next ink topic. |
Next |
Moves to the next ink topic without converting the current topic. |
Close |
Stops the conversion process. |
