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!
Chaps
09. Feb, 2010
I’d like to know how we are going to host Notebooks in the cloud and how Onete Mobile is going to synchronise, be it direct to the cloud or via USB to my lapotop…
Austin
09. Feb, 2010
How do I modify the style settings?
Randall
09. Feb, 2010
The menus have changed. Documentation on how to build a ribbon will be helpful. Include info about building the ribbon and/or quick access bar that acts like the options we had before. Also make recommendations for things to include if we type our notes or pen our notes.
Gerardo
09. Feb, 2010
Can you write documentation on formatting? I.e. double spacing, etc.
Jeff
09. Feb, 2010
I’d like to get more details about the “share as web page” feature in 2010. How will this work? What will be the required infrastructure? We’re interested in sharing content with others (read-only) who may not have ON installed.
Jeff
09. Feb, 2010
I’m not finding a way to adjust the paragraph spacing in a OneNote area in 2010; this was handled with List Formatting options in 2007. Where did this go?
Alf Johnson
08. Feb, 2010
Can you provide more (and more detailed) documentation of all the Math features and functions?
Math and physics note-taking/book summarizing is the #1 use of OneNote for myself and at least 20 others at my university.
Jen
07. Feb, 2010
I am looking for a wayto change line spacing and paragraph options. In ON07, I could just click on Formatting to change spacing. However, in ON10, the paragraph spacing options tool does not work.
Megan
06. Feb, 2010
Is there a way to “lock” a drawing…say a rectangle…around specific text…so they can be moved at the same time around a note? Or, is there a way to put a color tint to a text box. I think the tint idea would realllllly offer people an easier way to create diagrams. Right now, it just takes too much effort to draw a box around specific text, draw arrows, and move them around.
Stew
09. Feb, 2010
Megan,
To your question, NO, there’s no way to do that in 2010.
Sidenote:
Like Megan, I’d very much like to be able to lock a text box w/in a drawing box for making diagrams (with hyperlinks to the page that describes the object). I’d want to use something like the Grouping feature that you find in Visio. But the rest of what she describes, with drawing arrows and moving them around, becomes a poor-person’s Visio. I think this would add another level of complexity to a tool that strives for simplicity.
This product is clearly for text notes, not diagrams. While the text features may overlap with Word’s text handling, adding the features she’s asking for go WAY into Visio’s model, IMHO, and should be avoided.
Keeping the product true to the original intent is a lot of what keeps it easy to use.
Milo
07. Mar, 2010
I too would very much like this feature. I would like to use drawings like I do shapes in Word, such as callouts. In Word, you can easily lock the shapes so that they stay in position relative to the text or images that the shape was placed next to.
Stew informs this isn’t possible in OneNote. But doesn’t that pretty much make drawings useless? For example, say you want to draw a circle around some text to emphasize it, using the pen tool. If that circle doesn’t move with the text, it’s useless. I’m new to OneNote (this is my first version), but love it. Maybe because I’m new I’m missing something here?
Robert
06. Feb, 2010
* Need Sorting of Pages A-Z
* Documentation – video with step-by-step and sample task accomplishments. Seeing is believing and better understanding. It is also a lot easier and less confusing.
* when coping text from web page in “Text” it is important to keep the style like italic and bold.
Robert
06. Feb, 2010
* Someone else here suggest Aspen law Study Desk features. After reviewing, I realize there is a big need for study ability (i.e. flash/cue cards). Teachers and students will create their own “deck” and share it with others around the world. Great opportunity – http://www.aspenlaw.com/studydesk/Default.asp
* I love the auto linking feature only because it keeps a thumb nail view. Otherwise, OneNote already copies or embeds the link i.e. 2007. My suggestion is to make this available from all browsers, not just IE, and to allow the user to optionally pick the size of the thumbnail. Current thumb nail size is too small to tell what your really looking at.
* The Ribbon needs more work and also seamless integration with Outlook besides the ability to print to.
Prabir Mittra
04. Feb, 2010
Wish List;
There should be incorporated a feature that allows tables to be converted formated text and vice-versa.
Final formating can be done in Word or Excel.
Thanks
Beth
04. Feb, 2010
Is there a way to link emails into one-note pages? I have several old emails that relate to an ongoing project and I need to link or add them. Thanks!
Nicholas
03. Feb, 2010
Is there a way to change how the drawing elements like lines “snap” to the drawing. They seem to kind of “lock” into undesirable places. I can’t move them with precision.
Veronica
02. Feb, 2010
All my friends use OneNote in Law School. There is a new program called Aspen Law StudyDesk http://www.aspenlaw.com/studydesk/). It includes study tools, such as flashcards, quizzes, and course outlines. It would be great if OneNote could offer these features.
I think OneNote is useful for outlining but I would like to see a flashcard and quiz feature as well.
Thanks!
Ed Belding
02. Feb, 2010
In one note 2007 I was able to set a default template when I would print pictures to one note. I am a physical therapist and we take digital pictures of the patients then send them off with a printout of them doing the exercises.I tried setting a new default template for new page, but this did not carry over to print to one note. Please advise how i can print to a particular one note template.
carol
01. Feb, 2010
how can I use ON 2010 in a non-compatibility mode? If I decide I want to go back to 2007, how do I do that and not lose what I have already created in ON?
Larry Ward
01. Feb, 2010
after I installed 2010 Beta I seem to have lost my ON 2007 files??
Help please
Jared
31. Jan, 2010
I’m currently using Onenote to compile notes for school. Is wish there was a way to make/study flash cards in Onenote? A lot of definitions and things to memorize end up in tables. It would be nice to be able to convert those tables to flashcards.
Joel
31. Jan, 2010
Hi. I’m trying to find an option to disable the confirmation prompt that’s trigerred each time I delete an Unfiled Note from the UN section. I prefer clicking and deleting fast, and hate the confirmation prompt.
Keith
30. Jan, 2010
I have spent all day trying to copy a printed file to the notebook, I have tried to download the driver but does not seem to exist for windows 7
Kayleigh
27. Jan, 2010
I’d like:
Fill option for shapes
Data pasted directly from spreadsheets to retain its original formatting (cell colour etc.)
A checklist feature (I want to make checklists that don’t have to be linked to Outlook, because the best thing about OneNote is that it lets me do everything in one place).
Excellent program though, I love it.
Celia Nzabalinda
27. Jan, 2010
I use OneNote so that I can seemlessly work on projects at home, at the office and on my laptop. How do I synchronize the beta version with my 2007 version of OneNote? When I first set up the synchronization in 2007 the instructions were lengthy and difficult. i hope that it will be simpler with 2010.
Cathy
27. Jan, 2010
I am trying to copy a section that I use on a regular basis and have not had any luck. This would be a huge help.
Andy Gray
21. Jan, 2010
Another vote for documentation on the Outlook 2010 API. I’m the author of the OneNote Daily Journal add-in: I’ve been receiving many requests about updating this tool for Outlook 2010, but I haven’t been able to track down development documentation.
Thanks!
Rolando
20. Jan, 2010
I cant find the Create Outlook Item in OneNote 2010, i like to create Outlook Appointments from OneNote to Outlook
Thanks
Scott
18. Jan, 2010
Please provide documentation on the API
- How do we modify pages? This no longer works like OneNote 2007 as the XML format has changed.
- How do we create/pulish an add-in? The IOneNoteAddIn interface no longer exists in the OneNote 14.0 object library
- How do we add our new add-in to the Ribbon?
Trevor Jerome
18. Jan, 2010
This may or may not be known already, but i’m just letting you know like a good beta tester should do. When copying text from Wolfram Mathematica into OneNote, I can only copy one line at a time. When I try to copy more, OneNote puts my note document into the middle of a very long page and/or crashes.
Gerry
17. Jan, 2010
Can you restore “multiple” / ALL notebooks at once. Note: I have created 30 different notebooks. All I can do is:
1. back up
2. copy backup to my laptop
3. MANUALLY / INDIVIDUALLY open each notebook to “restore”.
Am I missing something where I can “shift-click or ctrl click” to highlight all notebooks for “restore backup”
thks in advance
gerry
demetri
17. Jan, 2010
i would like to link one note to a reoccurring appointment in outlook. as a guitar teacher i see the same students every week. to be able to keep, access, and share notes from those lessons and have them linked to the appointment so that the one note page would open with a click on the appointment would be very nice. look forward to trying the recording feature and posting specifics from the notes in blog form, such as, facebook would be helpful. i think that is all for now.
Lawrence Keyes
15. Jan, 2010
Within a notebook, how do you delete a section? and how do you delete a page? With the lack of a “Edit” menu I’m lost. (!)
Scott
18. Jan, 2010
You right-click on the section or page and choose Delete
lkeyes
15. Jan, 2010
Within a notebook, how do you delete a section? and how do you delete a page? (with the lack of an edit menu, I’m lost.(!)
Shamus
14. Jan, 2010
I have a few questions that I would like help with from converting from OneNote 07 to 10. First when I print documents to OneNote I cannot seem to adjust the size like I could in 07 is there way to do that? I am a student and primarily use OneNote to take class notes with, in 07 I could adjust the size of the Power Point slides by adjusting the print size, any recommendations? Second, with OneNote 07 after I printed slides to OneNote I could click on an area of the slide in OneNote and type, in 10 it seems to only select the entire slide, is there a way to type? Thank you for your help!
Hubert
14. Jan, 2010
How do you delete a notebook?
Scott
18. Jan, 2010
Right-click on the notebook and choose properties to see where the notebook lives. Right-click again and chose Close, then delete the file.
Cristina
14. Jan, 2010
When a change is made by another user, it adds the initials of the author and leaves the updated information colored green. We have figured out how to turn off the author’s initials, but how can we change the settings so that the information is not colored? Thanks!!
Alan Baljeu
29. Jan, 2010
I want to know this too. The coloring is nice when you first look at a page so you can see what changed. After that, I just want the page to look like it’s supposed to. How can I make that happen?
Stephen
14. Jan, 2010
How can I store math equations that I commonly use in ON10? In the insert tab you have some I’m also capable of write them but I can no way to save them for future use.
Charles Turner
13. Jan, 2010
How do you import information from ON07 to ON10?
calmelb
13. Jan, 2010
I love onenote 2010 but how do you put onenote as the deafult opener for onenote files?
Scott
12. Jan, 2010
I would like to turn off the last modifed initials, but did not see a help menu topic outlining the steps
Rick
12. Jan, 2010
I’m trying to make efficient use of the tags. When I create items and tag them as “To Do” and go to the “Tags Summary” on the right side of OneNote, I get the checkboxes, but no text beside the items to identify them.
How do I get text beside the checkboxes in the tags area?
Thanks,
Rick
Kay
09. Feb, 2010
For me it only works if I have text directly next to the checkbox.
If there’s no text to the right of the checkbox then no text shows up in the list.
Vishal Doshi
12. Jan, 2010
Is there any documentation for the new “addin” API?
Also is there any documentation available for the LinkedNotes related COM interfaces?
Rick
12. Jan, 2010
It would make the tag “Summary Page” MUCH more useful if the tag summary page is updated when the tagged items on the original page is updated and vice versa…
dorothy
11. Jan, 2010
I was wondering, how do you merge cells in a table, and how do you open the new file wizard that was available for onenote 2007?
jamie
11. Jan, 2010
I can not figure out how to use my digital pen with OneNote 2010 beta. I have a Digital Scribe GPEN100C. I am running Windows 7. Could you give me the path I need to follow to set it up?
Doug
11. Jan, 2010
Is there a way to connect two drawings in ON, so that moving one moves the other? I would like to draw two ovals connected by a double arrow, then move one oval and have the arrow stick to it while the other oval stays in place (along with the other end of the arrow). Can ON do this?
Thanks.
Dimitris
10. Jan, 2010
How can I set a reminder in a note to alert me in a specific time/date?
Thanks!
Fernando
08. Jan, 2010
Could you tell me how to use the Matrix button, the Large Operator button, and the Equations button. They are all grayed out and I can’t click on them.
Also I like to have individual tags on the quick access toolbar, I don’t want a button that will list all of them at once that crowds up my screen.
And i kind of miss that language button that you can slect what langauge you want the word in that is on the toolbar that has a drop down. I don’t like it when the giant language thing pops up on the side, I pick the one I want, and then I have to close it. I rather have a simple quick access on the toolbar.
Thank you
Bruce S.
08. Jan, 2010
How do I adjust the OneNote Icon Defaults (from the taskbar). In ON07, there were options that do not exist when right-clicking the ON10 icon.
I prefer to send my screen clippings to the Clipboard and not directly to ON.
Thanks for assistance.
Michael C. Oldenburg [MSFT]
09. Jan, 2010
Hi Bruce, we will soon have an updated article about this. Meanwhile, most of the options you knew from OneNote are still available in OneNote 2010 Beta. To check them out, please see this article: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/onenote/HA102819781033.aspx
There is a new feature in the 2010 screen clipper that asks you where you want the screen clipping placed. You can either specify this each time in the dialog box that pops up or you can set a default behavior for OneNote to use each time. For the permanent setting, go to File > Options > Send to OneNote > Other Content and then make a selection for the Screen Clippings option there.
Richard
08. Jan, 2010
Is there way to open a OneNote file to a specific document when the program is started?
Michael C. Oldenburg [MSFT]
09. Jan, 2010
Hi Richard, OneNote typically remembers the last place in your notebook that you were at when you shut down OneNote. It will open to that place in your notes when you next start OneNote.
If you want to always open to a specific page or section in any notebook, you can make a special shortcut on your desktop for this. Here are the steps:
1. In OneNote 2010 Beta, right-click the page tab or the section tab where you will want the shortcut to go.
2. On the shortcut menu that appears, click the “Copy Link to Section” command (if you right-clicked a section tab in step 1) or the “Copy Link to Page” command (if you right-clicked a page tab in step 1).
3. Minimize OneNote and go to your Windows desktop.
4. Right-click any blank place on your Windows desktop and click New > Shortcut.
5. In the dialog box that appear, click once in the field where you’re asked for the location of the item, and then press CTRL+V to insert the path you previously copied.
6. Click Next. and then enter a name for your shortcut (for example, the name of the section or the page this shortcut will link to.
7. Click Finish.
Now if you double-click the shortcut icon you have just created, OneNote 2010 Beta will open to the section or page that you wanted.
By the way, this also works with different notebooks (right-click a notebook icon on the Navigation Bar to get its full file path). Hope this helps!
Deloma Cammarata
07. Jan, 2010
Over the years I have been looking for an application that would allow you to insert space into a scanned document. This would greatly assist with work sheet assignments needing more room for calculations or written answers. Will One Note be able to do this? Teachers and students would greatly appreciate that type of software.