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Work Smarter with Microsoft OneNote

Work Smarter with Microsoft OneNote

By : Clark
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Work Smarter with Microsoft OneNote

Work Smarter with Microsoft OneNote

4.9 (36)
By: Clark

Overview of this book

Do you want to take your information and note organization to a new level? This book will show you how to use Microsoft’s organizational app, OneNote, to store endless amounts of information in a productive and organized way, including solutions for creating your notes and then sharing them easily with your team or department. You’ll be guided through everything you need to set up a notebook and customize it to suit you or your team. The book will show you how to navigate through OneNote and search for virtually anything, as well as save time with all the shortcuts. You’ll discover that inserting information into your notebooks goes far beyond text, images, and videos, and also includes emails, links to documents, and clippings from the web. But it doesn’t stop there. Integration with other Microsoft products is key for making your experience successful, and this book demonstrates how to use OneNote with Microsoft Outlook, OneDrive, SharePoint and Teams. Beyond instructions and essential topics, this book also provides you with the motivation you need to make OneNote a habit as well as real-life examples of notebooks you can use. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to use OneNote for everything and from every device. Even if you start a notebook on your laptop and continue it on your phone, you’ll find working with the app seamless.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
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Section 1: The Anatomy of OneNote
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Section 2: Navigating, Searching, and Shortcuts within Notebooks
10
Section 3: Inserting Information and Links into Your Notebooks
14
Section 4: Integrating OneNote with Other Microsoft 365 Apps
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Section 5: Making Lasting Changes with OneNote

Using the Draw menu to create shapes, do math, and highlight

The Draw menu has a lot of choices for us. In Chapter 4, Entering Information into Your Notebook, you learned how to draw freehand with fancy-colored pens. Now, we will use those same pens to help us with creating shapes, doing math, and highlighting.

Let's start by learning how to create shapes.

Creating shapes

Creating shapes in OneNote is almost instant when you use the Draw toolbar, as shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 8.1 – The Shapes drop-down menu

Figure 8.1 – The Shapes drop-down menu

When you choose Shapes from the Draw toolbar, you can pick one of the following:

  • Lines
  • Basic Shapes
  • Graphs

Lines and basic shapes can be inserted onto your page anywhere. They can exist on their own, or they can be used with text or other information that is on the page. Let's look at the exact steps for adding a shape to your page. Our first shape example will be for adding a line.

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