When making presentations on the computer, perhaps illustrating a project in a corporate meeting or to promote one's work and show it to an audience in action or simply to explain to the person who is next to it, how a program should be used, you can use the finger or a laser pen to indicate important points. But if you want to make a good impression and avoid awkward movements, it is better to use a very useful program that allows you to zoom in on parts of the screen, to draw and write on the desktop to highlight the important parts in the eye of the assistant. The computer becomes similar to an interactive whiteboard, where to scribble and write anything, above the windows of Windows.
Another field of application of this type of programs is to highlight and circle some parts and add notes and observations to the desktop screenshots.
There are two similar programs that can be used, both to zoom on the screen, and to use a virtual marker that acts as a highlighter and indicator.
1) ZoomIt, ideal for Windows 7 (for Windows 10 see below) is a small large Sysinternals (Microsoft) program that does not require installation. This program should be used when you need to illustrate a Powerpoint slide or simply to explain how a software or web page works.
After starting it, ZoomIt appears at the bottom right, near the clock. By pressing the right button on the icon, and going to the Options, you can configure the key combinations to quickly start the different functions which are:
1) Zoom follows the arrow of the mouse which becomes a magnifying glass .
The cursor disappears and, by clicking with the left mouse button, you can draw on the desktop with a red marker .
2) LiveZoom is always a zoom where the mouse arrow appears and the screen can be clicked as normal.
3) Draw is the function to draw on the screen as if it were a blackboard, without making enlargements and zooms.
4) Type : once you have entered Drawing mode, you can press the "t" key to enter writing mode and then write to the desktop.
5) Break is a different function that allows you to select a 10 minute interval .
The duration of the interval can be chosen and the timer appears on the whole screen.
This is also ideal for meetings (with video projector) so as to put a certain limit on work breaks, visible to everyone.
2) Windows Ink, to draw and write on the screen is a program already included in Windows 10, similar to ZoomIt, but with many more features.
The program has the specific purpose of transforming the mouse into a marker to draw and doodle on the screen, take visual notes and write on the desktop even freehand. As for ZoomIt, Ink also transforms the computer into a blackboard and what is drawn is independent of open windows and does not remain in memory. Being a program made for drawing on the screen, there are more options for deciding the color of the marker and the thickness of the stroke. Other functions are the button to take a screenshot of the monitor and the button to print the image that appears on the screen.
3) The third possibility to have a zoom on command and to draw on the desktop is represented by the magnifying glass Windows Magnifier which offers different possibilities, explained in another post.
