An organizer developed by Microsoft for office applications, a program that will be of great benefit to you in the office and home environment.
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OneNote at work
Let's say you're doing a slide show and a student asks a question, or you want to reference a little-known phenomenon or graphic that isn't in the syllabus. OneNote is like rubbing a lamp with a genie in it. If you minimize OneNote during your presentation and leave it on the taskbar, all you have to do is maximize the program, enter the search term, and press ENTER to find the information you're looking for. Your note magically appears. When you're done, with an easy transition, you minimize OneNote and continue with your presentation.
Prepare for classes with OneNote
OneNote has a familiar interface (similar to Microsoft Office Word) so OneNote can be easily and conveniently set up for use in the classroom. You teach several different classes and want to use OneNote to organize your thoughts and lesson plans for each class. This can be accomplished in five easy steps.
Creating partitions
First, try creating a custom section for each of your classes. To create sections (organized as side-by-side tabs at the top of the window), click New Section on the Insert menu and type the name of your section (or class) on the tab of the label. The following illustration shows how I organize my classes into sections in my notebook.
You can also create the new partition from the task pane. To do this, click New on the File menu , and then click Section in the task pane .
Creating notes
After you create your sections, you can start taking notes. You can use various methods to create notes of different classes:
- Write directly in the notes window. You do not need to save; OneNote automatically saves your work.
- Copy and paste materials from other files.
- Scan the material you want to copy and save it in .bmp, .jpg or .tif format. Navigate to the location where you saved the file, select it, and drag the image in OneNote to where you want to place it.
- Drag links, text or images from Web pages into your notes while researching the web.
- Import images from a file on your computer or directly from the scanner or camera.
- Attach documents as image files and then add descriptions for those images in your notes.
- Capture any screenshots (including details of programs, Web pages, documents) that you want to reference or share with the class while you lecture. Taking a screenshot is similar to copying the screen using the PRINT SCREEN key, but with a better function. Because you have full control over which part of the screen you want to capture.
Customize note flags
You can customize the note flags to quickly identify and categorize your notes.
First, I want to give an example to illustrate why you might want to customize the annotation flags. Let's say you want to be able to quickly identify the notes you've scribbled out, which you might want to use in your future lesson plans. After you create the note, you can add a note flag that you customize as a "Lesson Plan" to the note. Later, when you sit down to write the lesson plans, you can search for the "Lesson Plan" flags you use and add those notes to your study.
To customize note flags:
- Format menu Note Flags ' and point to Customize Note Flag to click.
- In the Note Flags Summary task pane, click the flag you want to change or define, and then click Modify . You can change the name, icon, font color and accent color.
Customizations do not affect notes you have flagged before.
Assign note flags
You can now assign note flags to the title by clicking the title and selecting the correct flag on the Note Flags toolbar. (If the toolbar is hidden, right-click any toolbar and click Note Flags on the shortcut menu .)
In particular, being able to assign multiple note flags to a particular note made my job much easier. This allows me to search by grade flag classification in some cases where I can't remember the exact keyword.
Sort page tabs alphabetically
Finally, I want to sort all of my page tabs alphabetically. This has the benefit that may not be immediately apparent: now my page list is also sorted in alphabetical order.
Here's how to do it:
- Click the sheet tab and drag the tab along the side until a small triangle appears next to it.
To select multiple pages, hold down the CTRL key and click the tabs for all the pages you want.
- Drag the page tab up or down until the triangle indicator is where you want to move the page.
If you want to sort your notes, click Page List on the View menu . The Page List task pane is displayed. You can sort by chapter, title, or date using the task pane.