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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 9: Inserting Links and Attachments into Your Notebooks

In this chapter, we will learn how to create built-in shortcuts for your notebooks so that you can get to other information fast! You will learn how to create links within your notebooks so that you can quickly jump from one notebook, section, or page to another. This will help you to cross-reference your information so that there is less retyping and no redundant information. You can also create links to important documents so that you can instantly access them from your notes.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Creating paragraph links in your notebooks
  • Creating section and page links in your notebooks
  • Editing your links and best practices for linking successfully
  • Inserting documents or spreadsheets

Just as with a website, your notebook can be full of relevant information plus links to further reference information, other examples, definitions, or whatever will help the...