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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

Chapter 3: Creating Notebooks, Sections, and Pages

Microsoft OneNote is your key to organization. You simply need to decide on the best method of storing notes and related information to suit your needs. OneNote organizes your notes by providing you with the following divisions:

  • Notebook
  • Section
  • Page

You can have as many notebooks as you wish. Some of these notebooks can be just for you, and some of them can be shared with others. Within each notebook, you have sections. And within each section, you have pages. Pages are where you record or capture all of your information.

In this chapter, we will focus on the following topics:

  • How to create a notebook
  • How to create sections in your notebook
  • How to create pages in your notebook

By the end of this chapter, you will understand the difference between notebooks, sections, and pages. This will help you make the right decisions in terms of how to lay your notebooks out within OneNote so that...