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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

Understanding the sharing of notebooks stored in Teams, SharePoint, or OneDrive

When considering which information to add to your notebooks, it is helpful to remember who you are sharing that notebook with. Which information is of benefit to the group? From time to time, the group could change. You have members to remove or members to add. This could be because the membership of your department, project, or committee has changed, and they are the ones accessing the notebooks.

Let's start with sharing in Teams.

Sharing notebooks in Teams

If the shared notebook is in Teams, then the default membership is that team's membership. There are exceptions to this that could affect your notebook membership. If you have a private channel in your team and the notebook resides in that channel, then membership is restricted to a smaller group that is assigned to that private channel. Other sharing exceptions are possible through editing the permissions within the SharePoint site...