Frequently Asked Questions
Posted on 19. Nov, 2009 by OneNote in Help Articles
During the Microsoft Office 2010 Beta program, we expect our customers to have many questions about Office 2010 and OneNote 2010. This Help article will be periodically updated to address such questions, so that you can easily check out the latest rumor control whenever you return to this site. If you have questions about OneNote 2010 Beta (or about Office 2010 Beta in general) which are not already answered in one of the other Help articles on this site, please post them below.
Note: Answers provided here are intended for the Beta versions of Microsoft OneNote 2010 and Microsoft Office 2010 and may not apply to the final, released versions of the software. Information provided on this page (and on the rest of this Web site) is provided “as is,” with no warranties (expressed or implied), and it confers no rights.
Frequently Asked Questions about Microsoft OneNote 2010 Beta
- Does OneNote 2010 Beta come in a native 64-bit version?
Yes — when you download the Microsoft Office 2010 Professional Plus Beta from the official site, you will be given the choice to download either the 32-bit (x86) version or the 64-bit (x64) version. This choice will appear at the bottom of the screen on which you are given your Multiple Activation Key (MAK) code. If you download the 64-bit version of Office 2010 Beta, OneNote 2010 Beta will be available in its native 64-bit version.
- Does the “Send to OneNote” print driver work on 64-bit systems?
Yes — OneNote 2010 Beta includes a fully functioning “Send to OneNote” print driver in both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions, and both versions work on 64-bit versions of Windows Vista and Windows 7.
- When using the “Dock to Desktop” feature on a netbook, OneNote docks to the top of my screen instead of to the right side. How can I get the original left/right split back?
Left-click and hold the title bar of the docked OneNote 2010 window and then drag it to the side of the screen, releasing the mouse button only once you’re outside of the docked OneNote window. This should work for docking the OneNote window to any side of your screen. (Thanks to our Beta tester Elena for submitting this tip!)
- Is the OneNote 2010 Web App and SkyDrive integration available for Beta testing?
No — the interest in this feature has been overwhelming and we very much appreciate it. Unfortunately, internal testing has not yet been completed and the OneNote Web App could not be included in the Office 2010 Beta download package. We’re hard at work on finalizing this exciting new feature, so please check back at a later date. We will post an update if there is any change in the availability of this feature during the Beta timeframe.
- I already have OneNote 2007 and/or Office 2007 installed on my PC. What happens to my current version if I install the Beta over it?
Please have a look at the Microsoft Office 2010 Beta FAQ and read the information in the section titled “Microsoft Office 2010 Beta.”
- Are there any templates available for OneNote 2010 Beta?
Yes — you can download any of our free OneNote 2007 templates and use them with OneNote 2010 Beta. Click here to view the full list of OneNote template categories.
- I’ve installed Microsoft Office 2010 Beta on my Windows smartphone but I can’t get OneNote 2010 Beta to sync. What’s wrong?
This is a known issue in the 64-bit version of OneNote 2010 Beta. You can successfully sync with the 32-bit Beta client, but the 64-bit Beta client is currently having sync issues. We’re working hard to resolve this issue in the final version.
- When does OneNote 2010 Beta expire?
OneNote 2010 Beta (and all the other programs in the Office 2010 Beta) will expire in October 2010. At that time, you can uninstall the Beta software and download the trial version of OneNote 2010 or purchase the full version. OneNote 2010 will be sold as a standalone product and included in Microsoft Office 2010 Home & Business, Microsoft Office 2010 Professional, Microsoft Office 2010 Professional Plus, and Microsoft Office 2010 Enterprise.
- Is OneNote 2010 Beta available for the Mac?
No — at present, OneNote 2010 Beta is available for Windows only. Please see the full system requirements for more information.
- Is OneNote 2010 Beta available in languages other than English?
Yes — aside from English, all of the programs in the Office 2010 Beta are also available for use in Simplified Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Russian, and Spanish.
Frequently Asked Questions about Microsoft Office 2010 Beta
- Where can I download the Office 2010 Beta?
You can download Microsoft Office 2010 Professional Plus Beta from Microsoft’s official Beta site. This is a limited time opportunity, so if you’d like to test this pre-release software and provide us with feedback, try to download and install the software as soon as possible.
- What exactly is “Beta software”?
“Beta” is a nickname for software which has passed a significant internal stage of software development and is being made available to a larger community of users for testing purposes. A Beta release allows real-world users to try out the software on a variety of computer systems and configuration environments and provide feedback about any issues or malfunctions that they may find in the software. If you haven’t participated in a public Beta before, please understand the risks that are commonly assumed of and associated with Beta-level software releases. Because it is still undergoing testing, Beta software can be unstable and could potentially cause crashes or data loss. If you cannot install the Office 2010 Beta on a separate computer for safe testing purposes and you still want to test-drive the software on your main PC, please be sure to completely back up your computer and all files that you care about. If you’re using Windows 7, click here to learn how to back up your hard drive. We’re very excited about this release and are proud of the hard work that has gone into these products, but final testing has only just begun. As with all Beta products, the Office 2010 Beta is not covered by Microsoft Technical Support and provides only limited (if any) finalized documentation. You should never rely on Beta software to do mission-critical work.
Frequently Asked Questions about the OneNote 2010 Beta Documentation Web Site
- Why are you not showing more screenshots in the Help articles?
We’re planning to add many screenshots, videos, and other visuals to our Help articles throughout this site over the coming weeks. Beta software does not usually include any official documentation because the product’s user interface is not finalized until after the Beta program concludes. For the OneNote 2010 Beta, however, we are breaking with this tradition because we really want you to be able to get up to speed more quickly and, in the process, tell us which parts of the documentation set are most useful to you and which articles could use some more work. While we refine the documentation set, we will do our best to add as many visuals as possible to make learning the program easier.
Note: Answers provided here are intended for the Beta versions of Microsoft OneNote 2010 and Microsoft Office 2010 and may not apply to the final, released versions of the software. Information provided on this page (and on the rest of this Web site) is provided “as is,” with no warranties (expressed or implied), and it confers no rights.
126 Responses to “Frequently Asked Questions”
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Dan Browne
28. Jan, 2010
Is the table functionality in onenote 2010 going to be more excel-like?
It would have been really useful to be able to do some simple spreadsheet like functions in previous versions of onenote (of which I am a big fan). For example: snippets of spreadsheets…..
Thanks
Mitigation Elf
28. Jan, 2010
I love the additions and upgrades that ON2010 offers. I know very well that ON is not intended to be a word processor nor a database nor a spreadsheet, yet we consumers keep pushing to have features from all of these types of applications integrated into ON.
So I am going to do it again. I know I can type numbers in a row, use the plus symbol and the equals symbol and get a total. Is it possible to get ON to do more advance math or to have it add in a colum rather than row?
I do see in the ribbon an equasion tool which I presume is going to be similar to the equasion tool in Word. I can not get it to “ungrey” no matter what I try.
John Wsol
13. Feb, 2010
If your OneNote file is 2007 format you cannot use the Equation tool. Create a NEW OneNote using 2010 and you will be able to try to do equations.
Steve
02. Feb, 2010
When printing to OneNote, all pages go to the Unfiled Notes Notebook. Is there a way to print directly to subfolders under different workbooks?
Ami
04. Feb, 2010
Any good pen-input devices for onenote?
Thanks
Ben Mcallister
02. Mar, 2010
Hi Amy – You might try Capturx for MS OneNote from Adapx. http://www.adapx.com
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Joseph
05. Feb, 2010
How do you move a page to go under a different heading? Also, is there a way to input data (written & sound) from my Pulse SmartPen into One Note?
Thanks!
Stew
10. Feb, 2010
Joseph,
1. Click and drag the page’s tab (on the right) over the notebook tab you want to move it to. To move to another notebook, click and drag the page’s tab over the notebook’s tab (on the left) and hover for a second. When the list of sections in that notebook pops up, drag and drop the cursor over the desired section.
2) As far as I know, there’s no direct support for smartpens, especially the audio. You can certainly drag and drop any text and drawings from your SmartPen, once you’ve got them in their proprietary application, though it may all come over as an image. So you couldn’t edit the text in OneNote. But OneNote should be able to index the image’s text so you can search on it!
Good luck.
John
08. Feb, 2010
Two issues:
1. It would be nice to toggle on/off the visibility of tags associated with a note so I easily see what I had applied.
2. When I created a summary page, a note that was a bulleted list was broken down to the individual lines and then scattered in the summary in alpha order. I want the bulleted list to remain intact as a single note in the summary.
Lisa
08. Feb, 2010
I am new to One Note. Can I use this software for recipe organization? I would like to be able to scan a vast collection of recipes and organize them with the help of a software program. Is there any tutorial that can show me how to do this?
Stew
10. Feb, 2010
Lisa,
You could absolutely do this. It’s mostly a matter of deciding how you want to organize the section groups (maybe by cuisine?) and the tabs (by time vs by main component (chicken, fish, etc), then start creating pages. You can easily move pages to reorganize later, but it’s good to spend a couple minutes planning first.
Be sure to include keywords on each page to cross-reference the recipies so you can search for them. For example, if the page is for Chinese pan-fried dumplings (Mmmmm!), be sure to put keywords like: chinese, appetizer, sausage, etc somewhere on the page (maybe at the top?). That way you can find this one by searching your whole notebook for any of those words.
Have fun!
Chris Leiter
09. Feb, 2010
OneNote is bad at math. When entering the formula Log(25000)= the results come out as 10.12663110385034. However, Caculator shows the value as 4.397940008672037609572522210551.
Stew
10. Feb, 2010
One feature that I don’t see in ON 2010 is the option to always jump to the top of a page when you click on the page’s tab, or navigate to it any other way. Sometimes it bugs the heck out of me when I go to the page and it’s scrolled to the bottom.
I understand how that would be good *while* you’re taking notes. But it’s a total pain when you’re browsing a new shared notebook and you always have to scroll back to the top.
Brenda
10. Feb, 2010
Is there a way to screen capture bits of video to be used later?
Kojak Edwards
10. Feb, 2010
Just printed an Excel file (2007) to One Note(2010). The Excel file had 5 columns and maybe 10 rows. When I opened One Note, there were only 3 columns, and all the rows.
Went back to Excel and Save Print Area: and tried again to print to One Note. Same thing, One Note only displays 3 columns.
Not a good thing.
Steven Freedman
10. Feb, 2010
Is it possible to print anything other than pages? For example: I have a book with 30 pages, each one a project. I would like to print a list of the projects, ie a list of the pages. It would be nice to print a list of the sections also, or the sections with the pages — in other words, an outline.
Jim
14. Feb, 2010
Is it possible for OneNote to search inside of files that are added as attachments? Such as Word, PDFs, etc.
Gydeon
17. Feb, 2010
I am pretty sure that this function is not available in OneNotes.
My suggestion is a build in scientific calculator that drops down off the ribbon command line. I am a chemical engineering student and it gets annoying when I have to rearrange the windows so the calculator and my notes are visible at the same time. I think the drop down calculator would be a way to solve the issue.
Bill
18. Feb, 2010
Can I email from OneNote if I’m using something other than Outlook? It says you can set the default email, but I can’t find it.
Rich
21. Feb, 2010
I keep receiving a message that my Onenote files are corrupted. Do you know may be causing this?
WH
23. Feb, 2010
I wish there was a way to import my Evernote file and categories so I can test OneNote.
Curtis
01. Mar, 2010
Please, please add a Evernote import feature. Evernote has a number of shortcomings around sharing and filing that OneNote solves easily. Please make it easier to move all my Evernote files over.
Denise
06. Mar, 2010
I’m using OneNote to store articles from magazines and other sources, I would love it if you could put in a photo or page that doesn’t look like a printout of an 8.5 x 11 page with a 2″ x 3″ photo in the middle In other words, isn’t there a way to eliminate all the “white space” when you drag and drop a small image? Other than that, OneNote is the best thing that has happened to computing since spreadsheets. :)
Sandy
07. Mar, 2010
I have been using OneNote 2007 (its great) for two years and was wondering if I can use it over the web. I don’t use share point, I just want to be able to access OneNote 2007 from different computers by using the web.
thanks
Sandy
Bill
07. Mar, 2010
Would love to see a feature where entire sections and subsections can be copied and pasted within the same notebook. For example, I create a blank template for an entire section (e.g. project) that contains multiple sections and/or pages. The ability to copy an paste the entire thing to a new one would be invaluable.
Bill
07. Mar, 2010
Also would like to see more control over tables and table formating.
sandy
08. Mar, 2010
Trying to print sheet music (file type of file ?) Onenote has the document but I swear I see a print button. Clearly I don’t know a thing about this program.
susan linehan
10. Mar, 2010
I made myself custom tags and loved them. But after closing the program and shutting down the computer, when next I opened it the custom tags had vanished from the dropdown box. They are still on the pages and I can search by them, but without redoing them in the “customize” window there is no way of adding them again to new items. Anyone else have this problem ?