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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

Moving, copying, renaming, or deleting a section or page

What seems like a good idea for a section or page, in the beginning, could end up not being so after you have added many months' worth of notes. You are allowed to change your mind. OneNote has you covered.

Let's start by finding out how to change the sections in your notebook.

Changing the sections in your notebook

With a notebook, you can have multiple sections, and your sections can have multiple pages. You can work with these sections and pages in many ways. Let's start by exploring some of the things we can do with your notebook sections.

If you right-click on a section, you will see the following menu:

Figure 7.1 – Right-click menu of a section

Figure 7.1 – Right-click menu of a section

We'll look at a few of the menu options in the upcoming sub-sections.

Renaming a section

If you don't like the name of your section, it is super easy to rename that section. Maybe you want to rename the...