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Microsoft OneNote is a software used to take notes and fast information,

very useful during a lesson or a discussion.

When you open OneNote a sample document opens, showing you some nice

tips about how to use the software. This OneNote document, with all its

notes inside, is called Notebook, indicated by a simple book icon.

To open a new Notebook, just go to File on top, and then to New.

To start with a new Notebook, you need to save it first, browsing and

deciding the destination folder in your computer under Browse, or

choosing OneDrive, defining the name of the new Notebook. Then, go to

Create, and the new NoteBook will appear in front of you.

A OneNote Notebook is composed by a simple structure that reminds the

one of a classic book: it is divided in different chapters or Sections,

and each Section is composed by different Pages.

On top of your workspace, you can select any of your Notebooks saved

and any of its Sections. You can add more Sections clicking on the plus

button. If you right-click on a Section, you can rename, delete or also

export it. You can also edit the Sections list clicking and dragging a

Section on the left or right.

On the extreme right you can check all the Pages inside the opened

Section. You can add new pages clicking on Add Page on top, or clicking

on the plus arrow on the left, if you want to add a page between two

existing pages. As seen for sections, right-click to rename, delete or

export. Click and drag a Page up or down to change its position in

the list.

Each page shows on top its title and time stamp. If you don't need those,

go to Hide Page Title under View tab.

When a Page is created, this is completely blank and white. You can click

on any point and start typing. But, if you go to View on top, you can

set the Page Color and any Page Line, choosing between Rule and Grid

Lines. When using these Lines, your notes will be automatically alligned

to these lines in order.

You can also define the Paper Size, especially in case you have to print

your notes later.

You can also use different views on the page: Normal View is the standard

one, but you can try Full Page View to go fullscreen or Dock to Desktop,

to take notes while using your computer. If you need to regulate the zoom,

hold CTRL down and use your mouse wheel.

Let's see now how to take notes and images inside OneNote.

As seen, you simply need to click on a point on your page to start

typing inside. This will actually create a Note, a simple object with

text inside. This is contained inside a grey contour, used to locate and

define your note. If you click inside, you can edit notes fully. You can

move your note clicking and dragging from the thicker contour on top,

or from the left grey arrow.

If the contour is too short, you can click and drag from the right side

to enlong it.

To adjust the font properties, such as style, type color and distribution

go to the Home tab on top. These settings are applied on the current

text line by default. You can select text precisely to apply your

settings just there, or click once on the grey contour on top to select

and apply the settings on the whole note.

If you need to cut or copy a note, simply right-click from the contour,

and paste right-clicking on your page.

These notes seen are text notes, and can contain text, but also symbols,

math equations, links, dates and tables that you can add through

the Insert tab above.

If you need to insert dates and time, use the Time Stamp section; for

symbols go to Symbol; for math equations click on Equation, and use

the Equation Tools available above, under the Design tab that appears.

For web address links, just click on Link, deciding the piece of text

and, below, the web address associated.

To create tables, go to Table above, deciding the number of rows and

columns. Then just type in. The table will size itself automatically.

Right-click on the table and go to Table to add or remove rows or columns,

or color filling and borders.

Inside OneNote you also have other kinds of notes, that are managed

differently, for example the Pictures and the Draw Notes.

To import pictures, go to the Insert tab and click on Pictures. Browse

for your picture and click on Open. The image imported doesn't have any

grey contour: to move it, just click and drag it from inside. To scale,

use the white notes on the corners. To flip or rotate, right-click on it

and go to Rotate.

If you need to draw geometrical shapes, freehand shapes or carthesian

systems, switch to the Draw tab.

Here, you can choose to draw freehand, choosing a line template under

Tools, or drawing shapes and systems under Shapes. In both cases, click

and drag on your page to draw. You can adjust line color, style and

thickness going to Color & Thickness above.

To manage your drawings, just exit from the Draw Mode clicking on the

Type button on the extreme left of the Draw tab. So you can move, scale

and rotate each drawing as seen for the pictures before.

When you select a Draw Note, a small dialog box opens. Through this,

you can fast add Tags and Tasks (that we will see later), adjust

the line style through Pen Properties, or delete the shape.

On top, use Eraser to delete Draw Notes made. To go back typing other

nodes, click on Type again.

You can use Lasso Select to select more different notes at the same

time. In this way, you can move, scale and rotate all of them together.

Inside your page you can also attach files going to File Attachment

under Insert tab. These will appear with their icons on your page, and

can be opened double-clicking on it.

Special attachments are reserved for Excel spreadsheets and Visio objects.

For example, if you click on Excel spreadsheet, you can choose to import

the table as a simple icon link, choosing Attach File, or insert the

whole Excel table, or its tables and charts.

A Text Note can contain not just text but also multiple elements, like

Pictures, Tables and Files inside the same grey contour. To import these

elements inside a Text Note, simply import them while having a Text

Note open. In this way, when you move the whole Text Note, you will move

also all its text and elements inside.

Very useful inside OneNote are also Tags and Tasks. Tags are icons used

to highlight a note in a certain way, for example showing it as something

to be done or something important, adding icons or text filling to the

note.

To insert tags, simply click on the interested line, and click on a tag

under Tags in the Home tab. The Tag will be added on the line where the

grey arrow is. You can also create and customize tags, opening the full

list of tags, and going to Customize Tags...

From the Tags section, you can also add Outlook Tasks. These can be seen

as special Tags that do also save the period of time interested. Those

are shown through a red flag icon.

Plus, if you right-click on the flag, you can change the time of the

task, mark it as ompleted or link it inside Outlook.

In case you have notes that do overlap, you can adjust the objects

order going to Arrange under the Draw tab above.

Remember that your Notebook is automatically saved. So, when you close

OneNote, you don't need to use any Save option.

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