Jonathan,
unfortunatly to purely answer your question. No, you can't.
Though, what the MVP's have been saying is the way you write with a tablet
is with the Tablet Input Panel (TIP), which is a small (but expands) box
where you can write words, and full sentances, then hit insert, then write
some more. Honestly, it feels tedious with large documents, or anything that
is more than 3 sentances.

Also, unfortunatly, you're asking purely for word... which just doesnt
utilize any gestures or ability to edit easily, other than the same way with
a mouse and keyboard. And in this case the pen is the mouse, and then you
write in the TIP and insert the text.

I fully understand the affects of carple tunnel, only 20 and i have the
first signs. (yeah talk about somthing that sucks, when im 30 I wont be able
to type anymore.) Hence why i went to tablet also.

Before SP2 of XP (or as the tablet community calls it Tablet Edition 2005),
there was a nifty feature of the TIP... you could write anywhere on the
screen, without having to worry about writing in the small box. Hopefully
this feature will come back. I check for updates everyday hoping that
something good will come out for tablet xp.

I hope my answers made it a little more clear.

PS. these newsgroups are community help based, meaning I have no affiliation
with Microsoft and i can still respond to your post... So getting people to
say "oh you should be able to do that" isnt uncommon with people who didn't
write the code to the software.

-James



"Jonathan Sachs" <llm040903@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 19:29:30 -0800, "Chris H." wrote:
>
>>You won't find exactly what you want...
>>However, for removing a word, a double-tap with your pen will select it,
>>then a right-click or holding the pen tip to the screen for a right-click
>>menu will allow you to use Delete. As for inserting a word, you just
>>place
>>your cursor where you want to insert the word then use the TIP floating
>>icon
>>(Tablet Input Panel Access icon) to write the new word.
>
> Thanks for providing part of an answer to my question. I hope we can
> answer it completely if we focus on what I said in the OP: "the
> important thing is the ability to make changes to typed document
> content with the pen."
>
> Bear in mind that routine editing operations require all sorts of
> changes to text, such as: inserting, deleting or replacing individual
> letters or sequences of letters to correct misspellings; inserting,
> deleting or replacing single words or small groups of words; inserting
> or deleting larger pieces of text in paragraphs, or entire paragraphs;
> changing letters or words from lower case to capitalized and vice
> versa; setting styles; turning boldface and italics on and off; and so
> forth.
>
> I tried to clarify my original inquiry with a couple of specific
> statements about inserting and deleting "text." You responded by
> telling me how I could insert or delete "a word."
>
> Were you using "a word" as a synonym for "text"? Or does "a word"
> literally mean "a word," so that to insert a four-word phrase I would
> have to perform an "insert word" operation four times? What about
> other common editing operations? Are they implemented with distinct
> commands (or not at all), or does insert/delete work the same way no
> matter what the unit(s) of text?
>
> My email address is llm040903 at earthlink dot net.