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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

Chapter 8: Adding Shapes, Videos, Web Pages, and More to Your Notes

What makes OneNote so special is all of the information that you can add to your notebook pages. Your pages will come alive with shapes, colors, images, and more.

In a traditional paper notebook, it is normal to draw within your notebook pages, so you circle important information or draw arrows to stuff. This drawing feature is available in OneNote along with all kinds of other media choices that we can insert onto our pages.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Using the Draw menu to create shapes, do math, and highlight
  • Inserting tables into your notebooks
  • Inserting pictures, videos, or audio clips into your notebooks
  • Dictating is much better than typing!
  • Referencing a website with a touch of a button

Let's get started by adding drawings onto our notebook pages.