OneNote Tips and Tricks

1h 8mIntermediate2021-10-05

Authors

Heather Severino

Globally recognized Trainer with over 23 years of experience

Course details

OneNote is a robust note-taking app that allows you to jot down and save ideas wherever you are—from a scribbled-on napkin to a saved article on the web—and cross-tag for easy recall. In this course Heather Severino, a Microsoft Certified Trainer and MOS (Microsoft Office Specialist) Master, offers tips to help you be even more organized and productive with this powerful note-taking tool. Heather covers top power shortcuts, explains how to set up and organize your notebooks, shares tips for taking better notes and improving the look of your notes (like converting handwritten text to typed text), and goes into how to import content from other apps. Lastly she shows you how to find notes and find text in pictures.

Skills covered

OneNoteNote TakingTips, Tricks, & TechniquesOffice 365Microsoft 365Business Software and ToolsMicrosoft

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Doing more with OneNote
02 - Who is this course for

1. Top 10 Power Shortcuts

03 - Take a screenshot of any area on your screen
04 - Copy text from a picture
05 - Customize the Quick Access Toolbar and ribbon
06 - Quickly create a table in OneNote
07 - Change the default font type, size, and color
08 - Make space for additional notes
09 - Link to files, webpages, or other places in a notebook
10 - Email a page from OneNote with one click
11 - Send email to a specific notebook location
12 - Password-protect sections

2. Set Up and Organize Your Notebooks

13 - Save time with page templates
14 - Create a page index
15 - Move OneNote pages and sections
16 - Create notebook section groups
17 - Add a notebook to a team channel

3. Take Better Notes

18 - Automatically link to open presentations, docs, or webpages
19 - Record audio and text for synced playback
20 - Translate the language of notes
21 - Taking notes with the OneNote mobile app

4. Improve the Look of Your Notes

22 - Apply the look of other content to text
23 - Convert handwritten text to typed text

5. Import Content from Other Apps

24 - Embed an online video in OneNote
25 - Embed Excel spreadsheets and Visio diagrams
26 - Capturing web content with the Microsoft Edge browser

6. Find Notes

27 - Find text in pictures
28 - Create, assign, and find custom tag notes

Conclusion

29 - Take more notes with OneNote