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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

Giving yourself space

If you have separate containers of information on your page and you are doing a lot of editing, then you may find you need to add space between the containers or take space away.

Insert Space works between containers, as well as objects that are not in containers, to fix any spacing problems. You can insert space vertically or horizontally. Although the feature is called Insert Space, you can also use it to reduce the space between containers.

Fun Fact

The OneNote team internally called this the Wiping tool for the longest time. It makes sense, as it started as a wiper to push everything down the page; but, at some point, the tool was modified to work either way – adding space or shrinking space. The wiper analogy just didn't work well anymore, but the OneNote team never really found a name that made sense – so it stuck with Insert Space, even if that's not all it can do.

Although you know how to move a container, sometimes...