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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 4: Entering Information into Your Notebook

Typing in OneNote is very different from typing in any other Microsoft program, and as an added bonus you do not even need to type – you can handwrite your notes in your notebook. In either case, there are no traditional page size boundaries. OneNote is very much like a giant whiteboard that you can write on. The limits of OneNote are restricted to the limits of your storage system. Your OneNote page can be as long or as wide as you want to make it.

To make a system like this work, OneNote introduces us to containers, which we can use to house our information on a page.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Understanding how OneNote uses containers to capture information
  • Giving yourself space
  • Handwriting in OneNote
  • Arranging your notes so they work well and look good
  • Customizing the look of your notebook and creating notes faster

Whether you treat OneNote as your digital...