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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 pictures, videos, or audio clips into your notebooks

Going beyond text, basic shapes, and drawings, it is exciting to think of all the possibilities for your notebooks. This means including pictures, videos, and audio clips in your notebooks. You can have all of these things together on one page, or you can add them anywhere in any of your pages, as you see fit.

Let's start with looking at how to insert pictures into our notebook pages.

Inserting pictures

You have three choices in terms of the kinds of pictures that you can insert:

  • From File: This allows you to choose a file that you have saved on your computer or in OneDrive or SharePoint.
  • From Camera: This will use the camera on your device, which could include a webcam if you have it attached.
  • From Online: This will open up a search pane on the right-hand side of your screen and let you search for a picture through Bing.

Once you place a picture on your page, you can size it or move...