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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

Touring my personal notebook examples

Outside of work, when you return home, I am sure there is no shortage of information that you are trying to keep track of.

Here are some examples of notebooks that you could use personally.

Let's start with how you might divide up your Personal notebook into sections. You can see an example of this here:

Figure 15.12 – Example sections within the Personal notebook

Figure 15.12 – Example sections within the Personal notebook

Each section of your Personal notebook could contain a number of pages that relate to the topic. Let's look at the Dogs section further and see which pages could be included, as follows:

Figure 15.13 – Example pages within the Dogs section of the Personal notebook

Figure 15.13 – Example pages within the Dogs section of the Personal notebook

We have two dogs, and remembering which vaccine they had last or which kennel is best for them is important. The Vaccines page has a copy of the vaccine paper included. When we adopted our first dog, the vet gave us a Puppy first 15 months...