My favorite back to school features in OneNote 2010

re: My favorite back to school features in OneNote 2010

Daniel Garland — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 01:48:49 GMT

Ayça hanim, what's missing is a math tool bar that would help to compile a list of formulas one wants to keep in their school notes. Or am I missing something? It seems that the ability to calculate simple equations is of less value then the ability to take notes in mathematical formats. Unless, of course, there is a downloadable tool-bar plug-in of some sort somewhere which i could not locate in the help files nor in online help, so far.

selim

re: My favorite back to school features in OneNote 2010

Michael C. Oldenburg — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 18:03:15 GMT

@Tony Brown, Stacy DuBois, and kellis: Thank you for the nice comments and feedback. I appreciate you stopping by and leaving a comment.

@Gian2ooo: You can easily change the default font in OneNote 2010 by clicking File > Options. In the OneNote Options dialog box that opens, make your selection under the "Default Font" heading.

re: My favorite back to school features in OneNote 2010

Gian2ooo — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 11:30:16 GMT

how do i change my default font size??? it keeps reverting back to the same thing each time!!! Its driving me nuts! all And all i want is to up the pt size from 12 to 14!!! I just want to see what im 'noting' down better--- Maybe I can't see as well but why is OneNote tormenting me for it??? I want it to be size 14 when I decide to write text... I dont want to format it to 14 each and everytime I click a new spot on my notes. Something so simple is is becoming such a hard task.. making me cautious of whether or not this program is as easy and integrative as says it is. So far not very user-friendly.... even the plain old .txt files could change and save the format size of my choice....

re: My favorite back to school features in OneNote 2010

kellis — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 12:53:48 GMT

great knowledge for sharing

re: My favorite back to school features in OneNote 2010

Stacy DuBois — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 20:00:35 GMT

Great post! I have to agree that the linked note-taking feature is a favourite in this latest version of OneNote. I'm currently doing university online part-time through Athabasca University here in Canada, and so absolutely everything I do is through my computer. It makes it very handy to have OneNote keeping track of where I found all of my information as I was taking notes so that my bibliographies can be quickly and easily compiled when it's time to hand in a paper. It was so common without this feature for me to take notes but then forget to write down what I was looking at!

re: My favorite back to school features in OneNote 2010

Tony Brown — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 19:07:56 GMT

One feature that I believe would be KILLER in OneNote, would be to allow me to insert a resizeable panel in my note page that is a portal to my files on a hard drive or network resource. I could be in my project notebook, and right there are my project files. Imagine, if you will, "burning in" your file explorer on a note page. That'd be slick.

Each note page could have it's own portal (or multiple) to related files on the system.

re: My favorite back to school features in OneNote 2010

Michael C. Oldenburg — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 17:43:17 GMT

@Fred: Yes, this is possible — either in the way you describe or in the opposite way. When you record audio clips in OneNote 2010 and you take notes on that page during the recording, OneNote keeps track of when the notes where taken and the notes will correspond with the timeline of the recorded audio clip. If you click the See Playback button that appears in the Audio & Video tab on the ribbon (this tab appears only when you're recording or playing back audio or video), and you start playing the audio clip, OneNote will jump to and highlight each paragraph on that page to correspond to that time in the recording. This lets you retain the context between the recording and your notes and thoughts. To do what you ask in your comment is just as simple. While the audio/video playback commands are visible on the ribbon, move the mouse over any text paragraph in your notes and you'll see a little round Play button (looks like the ">" Play symbol in Windows Media Player) next to the text. Clicking any of these little Play buttons lets you start the audio at exactly that point where you had taken the note. No fast forwarding or rewinding to the correct spot is necessary. Give it a try and let me know if it works for you.

re: My favorite back to school features in OneNote 2010

Michael C. Oldenburg — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 17:25:14 GMT

@Adam: What I typically do to annotate imported PowerPoint slides of PDF documents in my notes is to click just outside (to the right) of one of the images and then start typing a note or annotation. This creates a note container that I can then drag into position over the slide, which moves the annotation with it. Once in place, it's much easier to add to the text or to change and format it. Let me know if that works for you.

re: My favorite back to school features in OneNote 2010

Michael C. Oldenburg — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 17:19:31 GMT

@adp: Thank you for your comment. Glad you love OneNote (we do, too).

re: My favorite back to school features in OneNote 2010

Fred H. — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 11:45:56 GMT

Can one links notes made during an oral presentation or meeting to an audio recording of that meeting in such a way that clicking on the note or line in a series of notes will cause the audio to playback at the point where the note was entered?