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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

Printing any document to OneNote

Because OneNote is such an ideal place for holding information of any kind, we have this extra option of being able to print to OneNote. You don't need to copy and paste information from another program into OneNote when you can print to OneNote. Windows 10 sets up OneNote as a printer for us. So, in any program where you can choose to print, all you must do is change the printer to OneNote.

This will create a copy of that information in your notebook. The Printout option from the Insert toolbar menu provides the same feature, but the method I am sharing with you here is convenient when you are inside the program and want to have that information copied to your notebook.

Let's look at the steps to achieve this printing, as follows:

  1. Within your program of choice, choose to print your file. For our example here, let's say we are in an Excel spreadsheet.
  2. From the Print menu, change your printer to OneNote for Windows 10...