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Work Smarter with Microsoft OneNote

By : Connie Clark
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Work Smarter with Microsoft OneNote

By: Connie Clark

Overview of this book

Do you want to take your information and note organization to a new level? This book will show you how to use Microsoft’s organizational app, OneNote, to store endless amounts of information in a productive and organized way, including solutions for creating your notes and then sharing them easily with your team or department. You’ll be guided through everything you need to set up a notebook and customize it to suit you or your team. The book will show you how to navigate through OneNote and search for virtually anything, as well as save time with all the shortcuts. You’ll discover that inserting information into your notebooks goes far beyond text, images, and videos, and also includes emails, links to documents, and clippings from the web. But it doesn’t stop there. Integration with other Microsoft products is key for making your experience successful, and this book demonstrates how to use OneNote with Microsoft Outlook, OneDrive, SharePoint and Teams. Beyond instructions and essential topics, this book also provides you with the motivation you need to make OneNote a habit as well as real-life examples of notebooks you can use. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to use OneNote for everything and from every device. Even if you start a notebook on your laptop and continue it on your phone, you’ll find working with the app seamless.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
1
Section 1: The Anatomy of OneNote
6
Section 2: Navigating, Searching, and Shortcuts within Notebooks
10
Section 3: Inserting Information and Links into Your Notebooks
14
Section 4: Integrating OneNote with Other Microsoft 365 Apps
17
Section 5: Making Lasting Changes with OneNote

Section 1: The Anatomy of OneNote

In this section, we'll learn about the OneNote screen and toolbars. You'll discover how to easily create a notebook with multiple sections and pages and find out how to add notes (typed or handwritten) and even customize your notebooks to suit your personal style.

We'll learn about the advantages of OneNote and find out about the different versions available to us and all the different devices that we can access OneNote from. We'll get comfortable with all the menus and features in OneNote so that you know what is possible.

We'll then learn how to create well-organized notebooks with the right number of sections and pages and identify all the different ways to add information to our notebook pages. We'll also see how we can handwrite in OneNote, as well as customizing the look of our pages and text.

This section comprises the following chapters: