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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

Creating page or section groups

A major strength of OneNote is its ability to help you stay organized. An example of this is grouping pages or sections, which provides another way to create order within your notebooks. Let's start with section groups.

Creating a section group

As you start to create sections within your notebook, you might want to organize sections together that are similar in topic or theme. Rather than having a long list of sections that you need to scroll through to find the one you want, create groupings.

The following figure is an example of how a section group can look:

Figure 7.3 – Section group called Example Group

Figure 7.3 – Section group called Example Group

To create a section group, follow these steps:

  1. Right-click beside the + Section button at the bottom of the section column.
  2. Choose New Section Group.
  3. Enter a name for that section group.
  4. Drag existing sections into this group. Or, if you are on this section group and choose Add...