Office 2010: The Missing Manual

Chapter 30. OneNote

OneNote might sound like the world’s shortest song, but it’s a lot more useful—and a lot more fun—than that. OneNote 2010 is a place to create, gather, and store notes. A note can be almost anything you want it to be: a typed line or several paragraphs, a sketch, a picture, a link to a web page, an audio or video clip—you name it. You can enter notes directly into a virtual notebook, pull them in from other Office programs, share them with others, gather them from the Web. One place, tons of notes—OneNote. Get it?

Previous versions of OneNote had toolbars to hold commands, but OneNote 2010 catches up to its Office siblings with a tabbed ribbon, making it easier and faster to do the things you want. Another new feature you’ll love is Linked Notes, which links notes (as you take them) to their source in Word, PowerPoint, a web page, or another OneNote entry.

This chapter introduces the program and shows you how to create and organize notebooks, and then fill them up with information. It shows you the different kinds of notes and how to add them to a notebook page. You’ll also see how to find and tag (label) notes, share your notes with others, and make OneNote work with other Office programs. So get out your pens, scissors, and glue—no wait, with OneNote, you won’t need those to gather and organize pretty much anything you run across.

What is OneNote?

Traditionally, students lug around notebooks, one for each class they’re taking. Each class notebook might be divided ...