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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

Working with your notebook in Teams

Just as a notebook has sections, a team has channels, and it is this division within Microsoft Teams that we can use to our advantage.

If we revisit our example from Figure 11.7, Project MC Notebook is connected to the General channel of the Project MC team. This means that from within the General channel, team members can access any section and page of Project MC Notebook.

Rather than connecting the entire notebook to one channel of the team or creating multiple notebooks for your team and the related channels, let's consider this strategy:

  • Use the default notebook that comes with the team. It has the same name as the team's name.
  • Create sections in this notebook that match the channels of your team.
  • Connect the channels to the appropriate notebook sections.

Let's look at how to connect these sections to channels.

Connecting sections of a notebook to a team channel

Let's organize your team...