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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

Exploring OneNote's right-click menus

If you use a mouse, then you have probably done a right-click. This menu is special because it only pertains to the area that you right-clicked in. If you right-click somewhere else, you could see a different menu. Let's explore right-clicking in OneNote and see where it takes us.

Right-clicking a notebook name

When you right-click on a notebook name, you will see the following menu:

Figure 2.13 – Right-click menu on a notebook name

Figure 2.13 – Right-click menu on a notebook name

Let's look at each of these in detail:

  • Nickname Notebook: You can create an alternate name for the notebook you have listed. This alternate name will not affect the original name of the notebook and will not be shown to anyone else that is sharing the notebook; only you will see the nickname. If you are sharing a notebook with others, be careful not to change the name too much, so that when they mention the original name you still know what notebook they...