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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

Summary

In this chapter, you learned how to create notebooks, sections, and pages in OneNote. You have seen how that is possible on your computer, your smartphone, or your tablet.

Planning the big picture of your OneNote notebooks is important, so take the necessary time to decide whether you should make a new notebook or simply a new section. How many pages you expect to have in a section could be one of the ways that can help you decide.

In this chapter, you also discovered that if you want to share information with others in your office, then you will need to create a notebook for that sharing. This notebook can be located in Teams or SharePoint, and we will look at these possibilities in Chapter 11, Using OneNote Online with OneDrive, SharePoint, or Teams.

Meanwhile, in the next chapter, you will learn how to enter information into your notebook. We will show you how different OneNote is for capturing information, and there is no comparison to other Microsoft programs...