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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
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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 mobile devices

Mobile devices, or smartphones, are attached to most of us all the time, so it seems natural for us to want to store or retrieve notes from this device. The screen for your phone is a lot smaller than the computer screen so it is no surprise that the menus and layout are a lot different.

Once you install OneNote on your smartphone, your screen will look similar to the following:

Figure 2.30 – iPhone and Android screens for OneNote

The screen shown in Figure 2.30 is the first screen you will encounter for OneNote on your iPhone or your Android phone. The parts of this screen are as follows:

  1. Account icon: The account icon in Figure 2.30 is a picture that represents the Microsoft account that is logged in. This account icon could just have initials in it instead.
  2. Notifications bell: The notifications bell will show a number beside it if there are any notifications for the notebooks...