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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

Activating the Class Notebook

If you are an educator with students, then you could benefit from creating a Class Notebook in OneNote. This special type of notebook creates a system that you can use to share and collaborate with your students or other teachers.

Once this Class Notebook option is set to On, you will have the following types of notebooks available to you:

  • Student Notebooks that you can assign to each student. As the teacher, you will be able to see these notebooks, but students cannot view each others' notebooks.
  • Content Library for storing and sharing materials for the students. The teacher can edit this notebook, and the students view this notebook as read-only.
  • Collaboration spaces where students and teachers can input ideas and share information.

You will see a new toolbar and menu option at the top of the OneNote screen for Class Notebook. The icons on this toolbar will help you create and manage notebooks, as well as allow you to distribute...