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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)
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Section 1: The Anatomy of OneNote
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Section 2: Navigating, Searching, and Shortcuts within Notebooks
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Section 3: Inserting Information and Links into Your Notebooks
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Section 4: Integrating OneNote with Other Microsoft 365 Apps
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Section 5: Making Lasting Changes with OneNote

Summary

In this chapter, you learned the best ways to cut, copy, and paste in OneNote so that the information you are working with lands in the right place. We discovered how pictures can be especially tricky and how we have to consider whether we want the picture alongside the text, in the same container, or outside the text container. Additionally, we explored how easy it is to cut, copy, and paste on our smartphones and tablets. With these fundamentals under our belt, we moved on to best practices. We chalked down a long list of ideas for your notebooks and best practices to consider so that you can create notebooks that work well for you. Finally, we talked about shared notebooks and the best practices to consider so that everyone benefits.

Now that you have a handle on how and what to put in your notebooks, in the next chapter, we will introduce you to categorizing and searching your notes. You will learn how to categorize with tags so that your notes stand out and can be searched...