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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

How to create sections in your notebook

Sections divide up your notebook. Be more organized and have a better flow with the help of sections. These sections will group the pages that house all of the information you are storing in your notebooks.

When you first create a notebook, a section is automatically created. Let's look at what we can do with this existing section.

Renaming a section in a new notebook

When you first create a notebook, you will see a section that is labeled New Section 1. You can rename this section as follows:

  1. Right-click on the section labeled New Section 1.
  2. Choose Rename and type in an appropriate name for your first section.

Your notebook should always have more than one section, so let's look at how to create more.

Creating a new section

The visual format of a section in a OneNote notebook is a tab. Consider tabs that you have used in your books or binders in the past and how they have helped you separate pages...