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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

Chapter 14: Customizing OneNote Settings

Setting up OneNote to work for you on your computer, phone, or tablet is important. Some settings are crucial to your success with OneNote, while other settings are nice to have. In this chapter, we will learn how to access and change your settings to suit your needs. We will also discover the extra options available to you on OneNote for your computer and OneNote for your phone or tablet.

Specifically, we will cover the following topics:

  • Settings for your notebooks on your computer and other devices
  • Activating the Class Notebook
  • Working with Sticky Notes and Quick Notes

We are in the final stages of making OneNote work amazingly for you. Take the time now to see whether you need to tweak any of your notebook settings or access any more features.

Let's start with the settings available in OneNote.