Comments on: Got a documentation request for OneNote 2010?

By: Imtiaz

Imtiaz — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 19:05:28 +0000

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

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 14:34:42 +0000

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.

By: Judy

Judy — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 12:00:49 +0000

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…

By: James

James — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 14:34:40 +0000

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

By: Marsha

Marsha — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 22:18:04 +0000

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!

By: Efren G. Camarillo

Efren G. Camarillo — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 16:54:41 +0000

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.

By: Steve

Steve — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 06:12:05 +0000

Any chance to get linked to PDF formatted documents? Any PDF viewer would help. thx

By: Margaret

Margaret — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 13:15:00 +0000

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?

By: marilyn irby

marilyn irby — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 22:36:34 +0000

I think OneNote will be great for all areas of my life. I will definitely recommend to my classmates!

By: Donald Zongker

Donald Zongker — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 00:22:05 +0000

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.

By: Dawn

Dawn — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 19:22:42 +0000

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

By: Jerri

Jerri — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 16:44:58 +0000

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.

By: Felton Ross

Felton Ross — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 00:07:15 +0000

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

By: Pierre Villeneuve

Pierre Villeneuve — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 16:43:58 +0000

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!

By: Teddy

Teddy — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 16:11:54 +0000

Please could Microsoft make some documentation about the OCR software in OneNote?

That is all I would like!

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 00:16:57 +0000

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?

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 00:44:48 +0000

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.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 06:41:59 +0000

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.

By: pelister

pelister — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 18:03:58 +0000

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.

By: Geoffrey

Geoffrey — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 04:33:18 +0000

Can you please restore Document Imaging and Scanning to the Office Tools?

By: David

David — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 19:09:21 +0000

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.

By: Lori

Lori — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 01:38:40 +0000

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.

By: Ed

Ed — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 00:35:48 +0000

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?

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 10:12:23 +0000

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.

By: John McConnin

John McConnin — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 20:09:49 +0000

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.

By: Sue

Sue — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 22:04:40 +0000

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.

By: ben

ben — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 03:54:59 +0000

Maximum size of a web sync’d notebook

By: emma m

emma m — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 09:11:44 +0000

how can i delete a notebook?

By: Amie

Amie — Thu, 20 May 2010 20:58:49 +0000

I’d like more documentation about the recording feature on OneNote.

By: James

James — Tue, 18 May 2010 20:08:22 +0000

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.

By: window7user

window7user — Mon, 10 May 2010 14:50:09 +0000

could you please send some resume temples?

By: michael zinn

michael zinn — Mon, 03 May 2010 08:15:13 +0000

‘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?

By: Grace

Grace — Mon, 03 May 2010 00:18:20 +0000

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.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 09:40:44 +0000

I love OneNote. I use it at home all the time. The new release has tempted me away from Evernote. I hope with the Web App option to be completely synced everywhere with my OneNotes. Great work.

I am trying to introduce OneNote into my law firm, as it looks like the perfect tool for research and content creation. The problem I am having is with the printer – it has installed, and is visible in the printers section, but when I print to OneNote, nothing happens. When I try to insert a printout, the green bar goes half way, and then stops. This is terribly frustrating, as I can’t show OneNote off properly to my colleagues without the printer function! (‘Send to’ from Outlook works, but that’s not the same thing).

I’m running the 2010 Professional Plus Beta on XP SP3 at work on an Admin account (I understand this can make a difference)

By: Amy

Amy — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 12:45:14 +0000

Where are the vertical and horizonal rulers?

By: Bailey

Bailey — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 16:32:18 +0000

Update: This never used to happen to me in 2007, but now all of my equations are clumping. It has completely destroyed one of my days of notes because I can’t parse out one equation from another. It has also almost destroyed one of my homework assignments, but every time something happened with that one I was able to hit the undo button to fix it. Luckily there are recordings of the class whose notes are botched, but if this happens in any other class I’m sunk. Any advice on this would be much appreciated.

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 00:23:47 +0000

I am using the screen clipping tool and I really like the capabilies of this function, however I am not able to select an entire document (in ie browser) that you normally have to scroll down to see the bottom section.. Is there any way I can do this?? Select a document tthat spans multiple screens in ie.??

By: Scott

Scott — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 13:47:26 +0000

How do you rotate a PDF in OneNote by 90 degrees? I had a powertoy in 07 to do it but now it doesn’t work in beta. Thanks.

By: Keith

Keith — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 01:18:45 +0000

Where are the vertical and horizonal RULERS?

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 18:31:00 +0000

Will OneNote 2010 work with Outlook 2007 in terms of assigning tasks (or to do) from OneNote to Outlook 2007? Everything seems to be greyed out and can not assigne the tasks.

By: Lynn

Lynn — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 17:39:36 +0000

For academic researchers, the one thing that keeps Onenote from being the go-to source is its lack of bibliography tools. Right now, Zotero (developed by the CMNH at GMU) is the only tool available for both notetaking and citation integration. If Onenote could add a cite-while-you-write (CWYW) function like Word has for Endnote and Zotero, it would make it more competitive choice for students and faculty. I suggest at least that OneNote 2010 provide documentation about whether citation/bibliography tools are available, and possibly to suggest ways to use it in concern with Word’s existing CWYW capabilities.

By: Chan

Chan — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 23:34:38 +0000

I use to be able to see the “Print to OneNote” option in my printer settings, but it doesn’t anymore. Is there something I need to do differently? On my Vista, I’m able to see it but on the XP, it doesn’t. Is it because of the OS versions? Is there a way to add it on the XP version?

By: Bailey

Bailey — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 22:55:17 +0000

Teri – When I first started, I had the same problem. I realized that I was using an old notebook (it was in 2007 format). If this is the case you have to convert to 2010 format by right clicking on the notebook’s tab, opening properties and clicking the button that says “convert to 2010″. If it is already in that format, that button should be grayed out. I hope this helps, because it is generally a great feature!

By: Bailey

Bailey — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 22:48:38 +0000

I am a graduate student in mathematics and I frequently take notes on my tablet alternating between writing in words and in formulas. Every now and then, and more frequently in sidenotes than otherwise, my handwritten notes shift unexpectedly, leaving my equations unintelligible. I believe this is happening because my equations often span two or three lines however I am not sure what causes a shift to happen. I want to know if there is a setting that can prevent this from happening, and if not I would really like one to exist in the future.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 20:44:08 +0000

I’ve been pasting files into OneNote pages for use later, rather than keeping them in folders on my Desktop or in my inbox. Most work fine – PDFs, DOCs, email messages, etc.

Excel docs, however, don’t cooperate. Once they’ve been pasted – as copies of files, not printouts or links – I can never open them again. It claims that OneNote can’t find them. Even if the original is on the same SharePoint site as the notebook, or on my desktop, or wherever, OneNote always tries to point to my temp directory and fails to find them.

By: Kurt

Kurt — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 15:29:30 +0000

I agree!

By: Keith Caravelli

Keith Caravelli — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 03:06:40 +0000

Hello, at work I am able to drag text from IE onto OneNote and it auto links back to the text and leaves text on OneNote that I can highlight and read. This is the ultimate note taking tool. I am on Office 2010 beta at work and at home but this does not work at home. I know I can use the OneNote tabs on IE but this is different. I simply drag and drop highlighted text onto OneNote.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 03:03:11 +0000

I know how to create a new page with a template, but how do I apply a template to an existing page or change an existing template?

By: Ollie

Ollie — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 23:02:56 +0000

Hello, I have retained a lot of information writing research articles in the notebook with tabs to share with my class, and I I have lost the availabbility to open it. What has happened? It staes that someting is causing me not to be able to use it for some reason. There is a debug button that I have selected but nothing changes. What can I do to correct this problem. I have a presentation this week and I can not use the information I stored in Onenote. I love this program. I am taking a class and this is great for organizing your notes/work. Easy to develop a handbook but I can’t send the notebook with all of the pages included because they are contained as folders. You can’t send a folder as an email attachment. I have the same problem as Jugwunth’s message.
Thank you!

By: Teri

Teri — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 03:16:24 +0000

Math and ink-to-math support, please! I’m on a tablet (HP TM2) but ink-to-math is greyed out. Math does not convert o and none of those cool features work! I’ve searched but to no avail… thanks in advance.