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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
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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

Replacing other methods

Part of your success in applying the habit of using OneNote is going to be replacing other methods of notetaking or information storage that you currently use.

I can still see the face of my student who declared I'm not giving up my paper notebook as he walked into the training session on OneNote. I smiled and assured him that he did not have to, although I was hoping he would change his mind, and he did. By the end of the training session, he said it was time to retire that notebook. OneNote was just so much more effective for his work.

While this habit has to be created, another likely needs to be broken. You may need to give up something that you have done or used for a long time, to gain the true advantages of OneNote. However, let's be careful about our methods for doing this, especially if it affects others. We do not want to tell people that they have to give up something—we want them to figure it out for themselves. One of the...