Use the whiteboard in meetings

Get creative and use these tools to put your ideas on the whiteboard.

When a whiteboard is open in a meeting:

• Selector tool—click the mouse button on an area on the whiteboard, and drag the mouse to select items, and move them on the whiteboard. When you select the items, you can choose from the following actions: bring to front, send to back, copy, paste, duplicate, and delete.
• Drag/Move—hold and drag the mouse button to move items around the whiteboard canvas.
• Pen tool—hold and drag the mouse button to draw a line with the pen.
  When selected, you can change the thickness and color of the pen.
• Magic pen—when you select the pen, click the magic pen to make lines or shapes you add with the pen tool automatically smoother and straighter.
• Eraser—hold and drag the mouse button to erase any annotation on the whiteboard.
• Stickies—when selected, click on the area you want to add sticky notes. Drag the note to the place you want, and select the color of the sticky note. Click the + button to add another sticky note.
• Text—when selected, click on the area you want to add text. You can select the color, format, align, and choose the size of the text from these choices: small, medium, large, x-large.
• Shapes—select a shape from the following: circle, square and diamond. When selected, drag the shape to the area you want to add the shape, and resize. You can fill the shape with color. When you right-click the shape, you can choose from the following actions: bring to front, send to back, copy, paste, duplicate, and delete.
• Emoji—use the emoji picker to select an emoji and place it on the whiteboard. When selected, you can drag to the area you want, and resize. When you right-click the emoji, you can choose to bring to front, send to back, copy, paste, duplicate, and delete.

Whiteboard controls allow participants to edit, close, redo and undo whiteboard changes, and navigate the infinite whiteboard in a minimap.

When you start a new whiteboard in a meeting:

• Edit whiteboard—click to edit an open whiteboard.
  If you don't see this option, it's still possible to edit the whiteboard.
• Undo—click to undo changes made to the whiteboard.
• Redo—click to redo changes made to the whiteboard.
• Save—click to save the whiteboard to a local file. See Save a whiteboard in a meeting below for more information.
  When saving a whiteboard to a local file, the whiteboard is saved as a (*pdf ), and is read-only.
• Close for all—stops sharing the whiteboard in the meeting.
  This control is only available for participants who started the whiteboard, the host or cohost of the meeting.

In the minimap located at the bottom right of the whiteboard:

• Hide—hides the minimap view. Click again to reopen the minimap.
• Zoom to overview—zoom to the width of the area where participants are making edits.
• Zoom in/out—controls the view of the entire whiteboard area.