Book Image

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

Creating section and page links in your notebooks

Linking to an entire page or section can help you or others remember where to find that important related information. This can truly make your notebooks easier to use because you are creating shortcuts so that you or others can find related information faster. You might even decide to use these links to create a table of contents or a table of reference so that everyone can quickly move to the pertinent sections and pages of your notebooks.

Let's start by looking at section links.

Just as with paragraphs, you can copy links from one section to a page in either of the following:

  • A different section
  • A different notebook

Let's look at the steps for creating a section link.

How to copy a link from a section

Let's say that within our HR notebook, we need to reference the Emergency Procedures section of another notebook, the Health Safety notebook. The following screenshot gives us an example...