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Work Smarter with Microsoft OneNote

By : Connie Clark
Book Image

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

Arranging your notes so they work well and look good

Learn basic formatting for text in OneNote, as well as highlighting and using styles. Just as you can format text in your favorite Word document or Excel spreadsheet, you can also format your notes in OneNote. The icons on the Home toolbar for text formatting are very similar to the icons you see in other Microsoft programs.

Let's start with the basic text formatting choices for our notebooks.

Basic text formatting

Format your text before you type or after. If you format your text after you have typed it, then you need to select that text first.

Formatting your text could be related to the font or to the actual positioning (aligning) of that text. Let's look at our font choices first. Font-related choices in OneNote are located on the Home toolbar; please refer to Chapter 2, Screen Layout and Toolbars, for a full description of toolbar icons.

A popular way of working with text in a paper notebook is to highlight...