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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

Adding a notebook to Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams is all about sharing and collaboration with team members, and OneNote provides a perfect way to do this.

For this section, we will assume that you have teams set up in Microsoft Teams and that you have the proper permissions to add to these teams.

The steps for creating a notebook in a team are listed here:

  1. Open the Microsoft Teams application.
  2. Click on the team's name and choose a channel you want to add the notebook to.
  3. Click on the plus sign (+) at the top of the Posts area, as shown in the following screenshot:
Figure 11.5 – Clicking on the plus sign (+) to add a tab for OneNote to a team channel

Figure 11.5 – Clicking on the plus sign (+) to add a tab for OneNote to a team channel

  1. You should see OneNote listed as an application. Click on the OneNote icon.
  2. You are prompted to select a location for your new tab. You can create a new notebook or use the default notebook created for your existing team, as shown next:
Figure 11.6 – Choices for creating your OneNote notebook in Teams ...