Control panel overview
Control Panel overview
Use the Wacom Control Panel to customize your pen tablet or tools. When you open the Control Panel, icons for all connected tablets and all tools that have been used on the tablet are displayed in the Tool list, as well as a Touch icon for tablets with touch. All settings apply to the selected tablet or pen display.
To customize, make changes to the tab controls. Changes will take effect immediately. Click Default to return to the factory settings. You can use your keyboard tab and arrow keys to navigate around the Control Panel.
Tool Tips are available for most control panel items. Position the screen cursor over an item and let it rest there. The appropriate Tool Tip will pop up in a few moments.

Control Panel features:
- The Tablet, Tool, and Application icons show your settings for those items.
- Click Functions to customize the ExpressKey, Touch Ring (Intuos Pro), and Radial Menu settings.
- Display Toggle options are available on multiple monitor systems.
- Click Touch to customize your touch settings.
- Click the other Tool icons to customize those settings. A tool icon appears after you have used that tool on the tablet.
- Default returns the selected tab to its default settings.
- About displays information about your driver version.
- Diagnose... shows information about your pen tablet that can be used to test functionality. See Testing the tablet. For wireless operation on Intuos or Intuos Pro, see Testing the wireless connection.
- Options displays Advanced settings. See Advanced options.
- The ? icon displays the Help topics for the selected tab.
Notes:
- The Control Panel will not launch unless a supported tablet or pen display is connected to the computer.
- Settings can only be viewed or changed for an attached tablet or pen display.
- A tablet or pen display cannot be deleted from the Control Panel list unless it is attached to the computer.
- The Application list is optional. It is not necessary to select or add applications in order to customize your pen tablet tool(s).