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Work Smarter with Microsoft OneNote

By : Connie Clark
Book Image

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

Inserting tables into your notebooks

Tables are a great way to organize information and keep everything lined up. When you first create a table, you have lines that separate your columns and rows.

There are two ways to create a table in OneNote:

  • Using the Insert menu
  • Using the Tab key

Let's look at each of these methods. We'll start with the Insert menu and the Table button.

Creating a table using the Insert toolbar

When you create a table by using the Table button available on the Insert toolbar, you can easily specify how many rows and columns you need. To create a table from the Insert toolbar, perform the following steps:

  1. Select the Insert menu.
  2. Click on the Table button.
  3. Move your mouse to select the number of rows and columns you wish for the table.
  4. With the mouse, click to select the size of your table and place it on your notebook page.

Notice, in the following screenshot, that the size of the table marked in...