OneNote Blog

Travel with OneNote: Staying organized on the road

2013-05-20T19:00:00Z

Traveling is blogger Brad Corob's hobby--almost every weekend, he's flying somewhere new to see the sights, sample the food, visit friends, and explore new places--but travel involves a lot of work and planning. Read on to learn how he uses OneNote to prepare for upcoming trips and keep himself on track while he's on the go.

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OneNote Web App now supports viewing and editing of password-protected sections

2013-05-13T18:00:00Z

Accessing password-protected sections was one of the most requested features for the OneNote Web App. Enabling this feature allows you to access your sensitive information from anywhere. After opening a password-protected section, you can edit its contents, change the section color, create new pages, and even edit the section name.

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Tips and tricks for the OneNote Windows Store App

2013-05-06T21:00:00Z

If you're new to Windows 8, you probably noticed that the OneNote app looks and feels very different from other versions of OneNote. How do you search? What happened to the menus? The new Windows is designed to avoid distracting you with commands you don't need, but all that change can be a little intimidating at first. Fear not! In this blog post, we'll teach you how to use the OneNote app from the Windows Store. These tips and tricks can be applied to most other Windows Store apps as well. If you don't have OneNote yet, download it now and follow along--it's free!

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OneNote just made your touch more powerful!

2013-04-29T23:30:00Z

Many of our users expressed the need to be able to draw on the touch devices that do not ship with a pen. With this update to OneNote for Windows Store, now you can draw with your finger! Read on to learn how and to download the update.

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Webinar: Ways to share with OneNote

2013-04-08T15:52:00Z

Meeting notes, vacation plans, grocery lists, great quotes, notes to self--let me count the ways to use OneNote. Consolidate all of your crucial information chunks and snippets in one place, then link with SkyDrive to share this virtual notebook with yourself (roaming), with other people (collaboration), and with other devices (OneNote ecosystem).

See the trailer below, or click "read more" to view the full webinar.

What you will learn at Tuesday's webinar

Using OneNote for your next household project
Ways to share OneNote meeting notes

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Update to the OneNote Windows Store app now available

2013-03-21T23:00:00Z

Today, we're releasing an update to the OneNote app in the Windows Store. It introduces a couple of brand new features and offers a few fixes. Many of you wanted better pen customization while drawing and handwriting, as well as the ability to quickly flip between customized pens. Now you can do both with the updated app. Read on to learn more and download the update.

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Webinar: Demo of OneNote on a Windows 8 touch device

2012-10-08T16:54:00Z

OneNote is available for all kinds of devices: laptops, iPads, Windows Phone, Android…and now for Windows 8 touch devices. See how OneNote has been re-imagined in this live demo.

Click read more below to view entire webinar or watch the trailer now:

What you will learn at Tuesday's webinar:

Draw, type, click, swipe OneNote
What you can do with touch

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Can a smart phone improve my son’s grades?

2012-08-15T17:10:00Z

Guest blogger Christina Tynan-Wood has been covering technology for decades at Family Circle and at blogs GeekGirlfriends.com and Family Circle's Momster. Her son Cole (16) is "very good at appearing to listen when he isn't paying any attention at all. Thankfully though, in this digital age, his high-school teachers tend to take a liberal attitude toward the use of technology. As long he is quietly using his tech as a study aide (not to cheat, text, or watch TV), his teachers quietly turn a blind eye.

So, to bolster my hope of someday celebrating college acceptance letters with him, I decided to teach him how to use Microsoft OneNote - in conjunction with his Windows Phone -- to improve his note taking skills."

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Working Offline in OneNote at 30,000 Feet

2012-08-09T16:40:00Z

Your crack sales team for your mobile phone company travels across the world--from London to Shanghai. Figuring out a discounted phone offer or other deals is tricky because tax rates, cultures, and lots of other things change from country to county. To save each other time, team members pass along tips by adding them to a shared OneNote notebook stored on a company SharePoint site. But how do they add new info when they're working on a plane or in a Parisian café, and then sync it later on.

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OneNote on SharePoint: A quick guide for site admins

2012-07-26T19:10:00Z

Hosting your organization's OneNote notebooks in a SharePoint document library offers the advantages of organizing them in one location, and the flexibility to decide who can access them through setting permissions. The job of creating a library and configuring permissions usually falls on the shoulders of the SharePoint site administrator. This post shows you how to perform both tasks.

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