Microsoft(R) OneNote(R): Data at Your Fingertips - Anytime, Anywhere and From Any Device

By Laura Leist

Every day and throughout the day you need access to information.

Using OneNote, you have the power to access project and client information anytime, anywhere – and from any of your devices. But....are you taking advantage of this power?

Does information you need to put your hands on get lost in the shuffle because you lack the organized systems and structure to be able to retrieve this information when you need it?

Do you keep multiple paper pads with information from various meetings – only to realize you grabbed the wrong pad of paper?

Maybe you've lost important information because it was kept on paper instead of digital? After all, your sticky notes and paper notebooks full of information aren't backed up and you certainly can't key-word search them in a couple of seconds to find exactly those notes you took.

Do you put asterisks next to things you need to "do" or "remember" – yet forget to look back at your notes? It doesn't have to be this difficult. By creating custom tags for things you need to do or remember, you can instantly move action items to your Outlook Task list or drill down into the data you tagged for a specific project or client.

Here a short list of what you will learn in this book:
Notebook ideas
How to get started with OneNote
Taking, moving, resizing and merging Notes
How to create tables of text
Changing colors of sections and notebooks
Moving sections and pages
Inserting files, pictures, images, links, time and date stamps
E-mailing notes
Tagging, creating and modifying tags, and finding tags
Linking pages from one section or notebook to another
Creating and using templates
Creating check-lists
Using the drawing tools
Inserting audio and video recordings
Password protecting sections of data
Recovering deleted sections
Printing
Spell Checking
and more

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Oct 25, 2019
• ISBN: 9780986220241

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Preface

Microsoft® OneNote®:  Data at Your Fingertips – Anytime, Anywhere and From Any Device.

This book is written using the desktop version of OneNote 2016.

Published by Eliminate Chaos®, LLC.

Text copyright © 2015-2020 by Laura Leist, CPO, MOS

Screen shots copyright © 2015-2020 by Laura Leist, CPO, MOS

All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, transmitted or utilized in any form, or by any electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or other means without prior written permission of Eliminate Chaos.

Eliminate Chaos strictly prohibits the use of these materials, concepts and sequencing in any form of teaching, whether to an individual or group, if the training is not performed by an Eliminate Chaos employee or licensed user of these materials.

Cover Design:  Danielle O’Malley, Caffeinated Communications.

ISBN-13:  978-0-98622-024-1

This book is available to be licensed to your organization or produced in volume.

Eliminate Chaos® is a federally registered trademark of Eliminate Chaos.

Microsoft and Outlook are trademarks of the Microsoft group of companies.

Microsoft® OneNote®:  Data at Your Fingertips – Anytime, Anywhere and From Any Device 2010 is an independent publication and is not affiliated with, nor has it been authorized, sponsored, or otherwise approved by Microsoft Corporation.

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Why this Book is Different

This book is written using the desktop application of OneNote 2016.  While there is also an app version of OneNote, it has less features than the desktop application.  If you have access to both the desktop application and the app, you will want to use the desktop application so that the examples match up.

If you do not have the desktop version of OneNote 2016, you can still use this book for the general concepts, you will just notice that the screen shots will look a bit different.

What Makes Me Qualified to Write This Book?

I am not just another author writing a book about Microsoft OneNote. Many technical writers are more than capable of doing this. Instead, I am a Productivity Consultant with an education in Management Information Systems and Technical Writing.

I have taught Microsoft OneNote classes for several years to employees of corporations, at conferences and to small business owners.  Many of my clients have enlisted me prior to their training to consult with them on the best structures and naming conventions to use for the notebooks their teams will share and collaborate on.  During training, this provides participants with the actual notebooks already customized for their use, which rapidly increases the learning objectives and outcome.

Having also taught Microsoft Outlook classes for community colleges, I became quickly frustrated with the materials I was provided to teach with.  While the materials showed the participants how to use the software, it did not teach them why they would want to use the software a specific way.  This is when I began writing my own books that serve as our teaching guides.

I have continued this with the OneNote classes I teach, writing all my own material,