Decius wrote:
] Maybe I'm the last person on earth to get the memo on this,
] but I've had several horrible experiences in my life where
] I've picked up a permanent marker on my way over to the
] whiteboard, drawn all over the thing, and then realized what I
] was doing. Its usually possible to clean permanent marker off,
] but in the past is has entailed a LOT of work. Today a small
] bit of information that I was missing was dropping to my lap.
] Apparently if you draw over the permanent marker with a dry
] erase marker, you can then erase the marks! It works amazingly
] well.

yes, i learned this when i tried to make a big white board into a big ruled whiteboard with a long ruler and a sharpie. spent some time making a couple dozen straight horizontal lines on it... looked pretty ok, until the first time i used a whiteboard marker on it. DOH!

RE: Dealing with Permanent Marker on Whiteboards