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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
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Section 5: Making Lasting Changes with OneNote

Chapter 6: Categorizing and Searching Notes

Let's face it – the reason you may love your paper notebook is that you have all those special markings in it, telling you what to do next. You may have created empty checkboxes as a reminder to do things that you can check off. Or maybe you've put a question mark beside something so that you can be prompted to look it up later. Super important information may have been worthy of a star in your notebook. Well, you can do all of that and more in your digital OneNote notebook with a feature called tags.

With tags, you have a fast and easy way to categorize your notes. In this chapter, you will learn how to set up a system of tags to mark your notebook in a way that works well with your personality and your work or home notebook needs.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Understanding the importance of tags in OneNote
  • Using tags, creating tags, and tag shortcuts
  • Working with tags –...