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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
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

Working with tags – finding them, removing them, and completing them

Once you have your tags in place, you may want to make changes to them. In this section, we'll learn how to change tags, find tags, and complete tags (that need to be completed).

Working with checkbox tags

Starting with the tags that tell us about the tasks that need to be completed, we have the To Do tag, which is a checkbox that's part of the default tags in your Tag drop-down list. When you create a tag, you can also create a checkbox tag, just like the To Do tag check box.

And just like you would expect with any checkbox, you can checkmark the box when you finish the task. Here are some details about how the checkbox works:

  • If you have a checkbox tag, then to checkmark the box, simply click on the box.
  • To clear the checkmark from the box, click inside the box once more.
  • From the Home toolbar, you can click directly on the To Do tag. You do not need to use the arrow and...