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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 layout of the OneNote screen on a computer

Now that you have OneNote installed, let's learn about the parts of the screen so that you can navigate easily and take advantage of all the shortcuts provided.

Within the OneNote screen, we can change to a fullscreen view, access the settings, perform a quick search, and much more. The main components of the screen, as identified with numbers, are as follows:

Figure 2.1 – The main screen of OneNote for Windows 10

Let's quickly take a look at each component:

  1. Back and forward buttons: If you want to go back to the last notebook page you were viewing, use the back button. To go forward to the page after that one, use the forward button.
  2. Account name: In Figure 2.1, the account name is One Student. This is the name attached to the Microsoft account that you are using for OneNote. Normally, this will show a person's name; for our example, here I am logged into a student...