Got a documentation request for OneNote 2010?
Posted on 20. Nov, 2009 by OneNote in Help Articles
We’re very interested to hear from all the Beta testers out there if there are any OneNote 2010-specific features (new, changed, or old) that you’d like to see documentation about.
We’d also like to know what kind of content would be most helpful to you — traditional Help articles, visual walkthroughs with lots of screenshots, step-by-step tutorials, videos, training courses, reference charts, cheat sheets, or anything else you’d like to see?
Please post a comment here to let us know what would be most helpful to you.
Thank you!
Alicia Hammond
04. Oct, 2010
It would be great to be able to insert comments on a post-it note in a document. So for example, you’re taking notes, but you have ideas that you want embedded in the page. Currently, I just change the color of the font to differentiate my notes from my ideas, However, built-in “Post-It” type notes would be really useful.
Ray Barbieri
28. Sep, 2010
How do I search for a specific string? I tried quotes as in “hq-fileserver-01″ but I get lots of hits on hq, fileserver and 01.
tablet pc user
19. Sep, 2010
I would like to use de converter for handwrited teksts but it doesn’t work properly. Is there a way to improve this?
thanks
David
12. Sep, 2010
In 2010 release version; not Beta; I find it difficult to utilize the feature “Set Picture as Background” which is not present on page contextual pop-up menu. In older 2007 sample notebook it is prsen by right clicking within a page. “Set Picture as Background” – in 2010 it is seeming non-existant.
Richard L
07. Sep, 2010
Help!
How do I open a document in OneNote 2010 that’s on SkyDrive from a link to that document? I can move a document to the web. I can open the document on the web, but when I try to enter the URL into the Open Notebook dialog I get an error that the notebook can not be opened because the “specified location is not available.”
I can open a notebook into OneNote 2010 using the button in browser editor in Firefox. I am running XP SP3. I’m using the release version of OneNote 2010 (actually the trial version). Also I am unable to send myself a link to my notebook on SkyDrive.
Also if a notebook is renamed on SkyDrive the sync connection to OneNote 2010 becomes broken. This is what started the problem. There is no way to just edit the sync URL in properties or Sync Status dialog.
win
06. Sep, 2010
I happen to stumble to this site and it is a good written read, a tad bit on the long side, but a pretty sufficient one.
I really love the layout too, it is very easy to navigate.
Imtiaz
28. Aug, 2010
Please include the following information:
1. The optimal size of data on a single page
2. Does dumping huge amounts data (say for example notes over 500 pages on a single onenote page) will slow down the computer, even though it has enough RAM and Cache memory?
3. Tips to change case
4. Tips to use clipboard viewer
Judy
13. Aug, 2010
I just got a new computer with windows 7, microsoft office home-student. I have never used onenote, cannot print and instructions are not clear, very confusing. I had XP 2003, easy to print, just point and click…
James
11. Aug, 2010
1) One feature that caught my eye was that you can create links to other notes. I believe this feature has a lot of potential into doing a lot of unique and useful note-taking.
2) Templates for layouts
Book Format – where Page 1 is Table of Contents, which provides links to all pages of rest of book, and each content page can provide a link back to table of contents. Also have a request bar or something to flip to x page, where x is some desired page number.
Diary or Blog format – OneNote already pretty much does this almost with its time and date of notebook creation.
Article Format – columned layouts and whatnot
Create your own Format
Basically OneNote should be more “web-like” with layouts.
3) Multiple Pane View for different notes
4) Include tags, libraries, and sorting for more searchable notes
5) Add more Visio features like anchored line attachments to boxes or textboxes to create easier, more spontaneous diagrams
Chris
25. Aug, 2010
Listen to this person!!!!!
But for now … Microsoft, quit fearing the written word. Please. Give us something we can print and read, steps to follow, instead of starting every search from the being and it not being able to find what I need. I’m tied of looking for the right word to get question answered. Takes longer than looking something up in a dictionary. The days of computers being “mysterious” and easy to screw are over. Just talk to us in English. I’d be glad to help. this is a great program.
Marsha
09. Aug, 2010
This is truely a great program Microsoft! I am a homemaker and I do not yet fully understand how this program is going to help me. Yes, I have got to play with it and figure out what to name each tab; also what to tag. However, I am not giving up on OneNote 2010. It may take me a few days to research and play around with the program, but rest your milk and cookies I will find a way to make it with this wonderful program. Thanks again Microsoft!
Efren G. Camarillo
04. Aug, 2010
I am a teacher, and I find this program very useful when I meet weekly with colleagues, in the same grade level, to give ideas in planning lessons or curriculum objectives.
I would like to be able to cut and paste into One Note written stuff, Is it possible? I just started using it.
Steve
31. Jul, 2010
Any chance to get linked to PDF formatted documents? Any PDF viewer would help. thx
marilyn irby
25. Jul, 2010
I think OneNote will be great for all areas of my life. I will definitely recommend to my classmates!
Donald Zongker
24. Jul, 2010
I’m trying to make a notebook to contain email messages which originated in Microsoft Exchange Server and which I run through Outlook. I keep getting messages that my mail box is full and I want to have a place to save the email, so I can delete them off the server.
Dawn
19. Jul, 2010
New to One Note and trying to copy a document but one note cant read my printer have tried to copy and paste document to works and won’t let me do that either my printer is a hpdeskjet d1660
Jerri
16. Jul, 2010
I am unable to save any document or worksheet inside OneNote, so when I do some work, push the save button, then go back the next day – its like I was never there at all.
Felton Ross
13. Jul, 2010
I am completely new to OneNote. It sounds great but I need an introductory manual. Even the terminlogy is unfamiliar to me’.
So far I have failed to find even a Page Tab list and certainly have not found a new page button ! A brief phone call would be helpful. Please give me a number to call
Pierre Villeneuve
11. Jul, 2010
I would love to be able to change the properties of the document styles. In particular i would want to change the default indentation amounts. They can be changed in Word and PowerPoint, why not OneNote too?
Thanks!
Teddy
10. Jul, 2010
Please could Microsoft make some documentation about the OCR software in OneNote?
That is all I would like!
Jim
08. Jul, 2010
As a teacher, I would like students to be able to access my notebook from their home computers. Will this be possible without requiring each student to purchase OneNote? And will platform matter?
Dan
06. Jul, 2010
How do you delete material that is no longer needed. Otherwise, I see great potential with this software, especially for those with hefty multitasking schedules.
Aaron
03. Jul, 2010
Paragraph Spacing Options seems inoperative, and I cannot find any documentation about how to make it work. I miss the presence of a way to create spaces between paragraphs. I copy a lot of text from the web, and pasting them into Pages leaves the text absent of any spacing options, other than manually going through the text and manually inserting hard or soft returns.
pelister
03. Jul, 2010
i would like to learn how how to modify the text styles in the Styles menu of Home tab. this is done in Word by right clicking then clicking Modify. there is no such possibility in OneNote.
Geoffrey
25. Jun, 2010
Can you please restore Document Imaging and Scanning to the Office Tools?
David
25. Jun, 2010
What I want to be able to do is manage and track notes for orders in an inside sales office. Orders may go to 1 of 3 people to be quoted, I have a variety of “special” order categories, along with customer issues, lost sales, errors, etc.
My issue is that if i use different tabs, or sections, then i can’t consolidate them to print them all of on a single sheet of paper. If i put them all on one tab then i cant arrange them automatically or easily have them grouped together in any way with doing it manually. And even if I did move them all around manually I still cant print them off except in summary view which does me no good.
basically, i want to generate a weekly “report” with complete notes(not a summary) separated by tags. i would like to use onenote to track these issues across our entire sales office but the program seems to lack flexibility and power as customization. Am I just missing something…..? The online documentation is either vague or the features that im looking for simply don’t exist.
Any suggestions for making use of tools that im not mentioning here would be appreciated.
Lori
23. Jun, 2010
I am a new student in college. Our Community College do not have Office 2010 yet. I asked an instructor where can I get more help in detail, she suggested to go to help tutorial on line.
Ed
22. Jun, 2010
I am looking for the way to get a list of pages that changed today, or in the last 3 days, or 7 days, etc. This was easy in OneNote 2007, but seems to have vanished in OneNote 2010. Where is it?
Steve
21. Jun, 2010
A manual would be nice. Nice – what am I saying? How can you think of charging people for a product without providing a manual for it? Preferably a .pdf manual that can be downloaded. These online-expert systems are a total nightmare. I get by most of the time but when I want to see how to do something, and the only thing that happanes when I click the ? button is to get through to these pages, it’s FRUSTRATING.
Margaret
31. Jul, 2010
I agree – why in the name of ___ would I spend time trying to learn to use a piece of software that looks as if it just duplicates wordprocessing files in a hierarchy without help learning what it does that’s unique?
John McConnin
20. Jun, 2010
OneNote is awesome for keeping real estate short sale files together. I combine tax records pdfs, images and docs all in one place. I no longer waste time (and money) printing, filing and finding.
Sue
19. Jun, 2010
Can’t figure out how to change the default email program for One Note. Everytime I try to email from One Note I get an error message that One Note cannot send the email. Need to know how to fix. I don’t have Outlook and I use Windows Live Mail on Windows 7 OS.
ben
16. Jun, 2010
Maximum size of a web sync’d notebook
emma m
09. Jun, 2010
how can i delete a notebook?
Amie
20. May, 2010
I’d like more documentation about the recording feature on OneNote.
James
18. May, 2010
Have been playing with it Some and can’t figure out how to put a ‘pens’ toolbar on the bottom or side of the screen. In the old version it was just moved but all I can find now isto add it to the quick tool bar and it can only be placed on the top either below or above the ribbon.
window7user
10. May, 2010
could you please send some resume temples?
michael zinn
03. May, 2010
‘Dock to Desktop’ may be very useful.
The first activation place onenote on the right. We played with ‘Dock to Desktop’ and move the placement to the top of the screen. Is there a was we can easily place or dock onenote the left or right, top or bottom without working through a series of menues?
Grace
02. May, 2010
Frankly, I’d like to see a book devoted to OneNote listing all the features with instructions on how to use them. I have OneNote 2007, and I’m sure that I have not yet discovered the full potential of the software.