I would strongly recommend searching YouTube for some OneNote demos/tutorials. It is very difficult to convey its coolness with just words.
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An Gadai, welome your new OneNote masters. 
If you have a use case or two, I’d be happy to make some suggestions.
Thank you for the reply! About this:
So there is a fourth level! I didn’t come across anything about ‘section groups’ – is it that you make a bunch of sections first, then, um, paste them together somehow? So I should make a ‘section’ each for Asimov, Bradbury, Clarke, Dickson, etc, then create a group for ‘SF’?
Hmm. Or possibly, if the notebook is SF, the groups would be authors “A-E” and “F-J” etc? With each author being a Section, and then each book getting its own page…
I have a lot of books. 
Will have to look into this some more. Maybe I’ll follow Mean Mr. Mustard’s lead and get a cheap copy of an older version to play with first.
I’m not sure if the 2007 version has section groups. OneNote2010 does for sure (right click on the top bar and select new section group).
The hierarchy you suggest probably is the easiest way to do it. Don’t forget, you can sync this on line too and access the web version from anywhere.
Again, search works *really *well. So, I wouldn’t get too caught up on the organization at first and rely on search. Once you get a feel for how it should logically work for you, then you can organize. And organization is pretty fast to do.
I mentioned before that I was a OneNote fan. I finally got around to syncing it with a Skydrive notebook, and then syncing the Skydrive notebook with the iPhone app. It works brilliantly! The sync happens very fast.
Here’s how:
- Register with Microsoft to set up your Skydrive
If you ever registered a Live or Passport account, you may already have this in place. If not, go here
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Once you’ve logged in, select “Skydrive” from the menu at the top to visit your Skydrive site
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In the Skydrive site, you’ll see a small toolbar that says “Create” with icons for each of the web apps and, on the right hand edge, a folder icon. Click on the folder icon and create a new folder - this will be the folder we sync with the desktop app.
It’s not necessary, but if you want to share these notes with someone, open the new folder you just created - on the right side of the screen there will be a sidebar with options. Choose “Edit Permissions” and share it with your friends, however permissive you want. (You don’t have to actually name any friends at this time.)
Incidentally, those web app icons for Word, Excel, PowerPoint & OneNote lead to the online versions of those programs. You can create full documents of each type here, if you wanted to log in via a desktop while you were traveling somewhere. For now, lets set up the desktop version.
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Setting up the sync folder in your desktop copy of OneNote 2010 - click on File > New
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It will ask you where to store the new notebook - Choose Web
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Name it something
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It will ask you to log in - use the ID/password you set up above.
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OneNote will log in, then it will display the folders on your Skydrive. Select the one you just created.
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OneNote will ask if you want to sync automatically - say yes
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That’s it for this part. The folder will display in both your desktop and web version. The web version is not as robust as the desktop version but it handles notes and photos just fine.
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Now for the iOS app - go here. It’s free for a limited time (whatever that means).
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/microsoft-onenote/id410395246?mt=8 -
On your iPhone/iPad, start the app and log in with id/password you used above. That’s all there is to it. Now the iPhone can create new pages or edit the pages in the synced folder, and those pages will be available in your online and desktop versions automatically.
I’ve been wanting this feature for years - so glad to finally have it.
Since I don’t need the entire Office suite for my home Vaio I whiled away a few hours trying to order the free version from CNET but couldn’t seem to get around the key issue. Based on this thread I’ll be ordering it though since it sounds like the perfect thing to write My Novel on.
So I played with OneNote a little bit when you first started the thread, but didn’t have time to really get involved. Saw this again and thought “oh yeah, I need to play with that some more”.
So I have Office 2010, I’m all good there.
I see that you can use it with the Iphone and Androids and such. Question is, can I synch it to my Windows 6.5 phone? Because it would be a lot more useful if I could do that.
ETA: You know, Google is a wonderful thing, when I’m smart enough to use it first. 
Yes, there is a mobile version of OneNote for W6.5. Seemed like there should be, it is all MS and all. (But then again, it is MS and all.)
Just passing on a tip. I just got MobileNoter app for Iphone. It works better than the onenote for IPhone because it shows tables. Brings the whole system together for me. Thanks for the great thread.
One note power user, I’ve got a copy and paste problem.
I’m a long time one note user and love how it automatically preserves the formatting and gives the weblink of anything I copy from my browser. However, a few months ago it stopped doing this and I’m not sure why. I figured it was an error that would go away, but after doing a diagnostic, run a repair sequence with MS office, and testing old pages that have definitely worked before, I’m not really sure what else to do but reinstall one note. ANything pasted into onenote is merged with the onenote formatting and no web link appears.
Any idea what could cause this? I use a Toshiba Protegre (bought fall 2012) and office 2010. I browse with Chrome and Firefox.
Any help is great as this feature saves me a lot of time.
IME, it works pretty well on iOS devices. I use it because I attend a regular business meeting and have to give a report. I can take notes on one device and read it from another, which is very helpful to me since I don’t have to worry about misplacing a paper notebook. I do want to start using it for more than just that, though.
OK, just to make sure I understand. You copy and paste something to OneNote, and it automatically formats the paste. In other words, you do NOT get the little clipboard icon cntl and the paste options?
I’m guessing that you accidentally hit the “set as default paste.” I’m not quite clear on how to clear that or turn it off, but that’s my best guess as to the cause.
Try doing a copy, then in ONeNote right mouse click, and then select the kind of paste you want (source formatting, OneNote formatting, txt only). Maybe this will change your default paste.
Give it a shot and let me know how it goes.
You can synch via Microsoft’s free SkyDrive to multiple devices. (You can probably synch via other cloud offerings but I only know SkyDrive.)
Then you can sync on multiple devices, access on line through SkyDrive/Live, or download the OneNote notebooks on a completely new device if you need to (like if you’re traveling or your device is stolen) which is probably useful.
Ok figured it out. Thanks for the prompt feedback China guy!
It turns out that the add on “Skype click to call” was causing a global copy paste problem. It wasn’t just one note, copy and pasting between documents didn’t preserve formatting either (but usually I don’t mind that). Not even the little menu after you paste something comes up.
Found the answer here: Redirecting
Turns out that little skype click to call program messes everything up. Now I use one note and the formatting, and source weblink, paste as normal. Good to go!
Hi. I just started using Onenote recently. I understand that I can save PDF files to Onenote by inserting files from another folder on my computer. What if I want to save (eg.) a spreadsheet to PDF, and don’t want to save it to another folder first. I want to save it directly into a folder in Onenote. Is this possible?
I’ve been fumbling my way through one note and somehow I have managed 2messed up a setting or something. now when I added an item from Outlook to OneNote all of my Outlook items copy over to the same page in one note instead of the different pages I’ve assigned within the notebook. for instance I have eight pages in a notebook and everytime i pull a meeting out of Outlook it Now only saves to page 2 when I need it to save to page 4 or 3. Help
ummm, let me get this straight. You are in Outlook, and want to save an email to OneNote, correct?
BTW, what version of Office are you using?
- in Outlook you click on the OneNote icon
- Pop up "Select location in OneNote’ comes up
- what do you do next? There are many choices
-you can search in the pop up search bar
-click on a recent pick
-click on current section or current page (eg, the page or section that OneNote is currently on)
-default is that it saves to the top location in recent picks
If I understand correctly, then you need to select page 3 or page 4 or wherever you want it to go. You can select from recent picks, the current section, or search for “page 3”.
Does that work?
I used a OneNote table to keep track of the collaboration on pages/sections of a report. Each row has a file attachment such as a PowerPoint document in the first column with comments and status information in subsequent columns. The challenge is to extract all the file attachments to that they can be composed into a single report. Is there a way to select and copy the attached files on a OneNote page into a directory?
HI
I’m new here so forgive me if I blunder
I want to do a search for all instances of (for eg) “Toyota” in my OneNote NOtebooks then collect all the pages that show up and put them into a new Notebook of their own.
So I want all my notes which include the word “Toyota” to be moved into a single Notebook
So far I can easily generate a lsit of the pages which include th eword but I can not find a way to select all those pages so that I can move them or delete them or copy them or whatever.
Any suggestions appreciated.
Thanks
Cavanagh - welcome to the boards. Honored that your first post is to a thread that has been “dead” for 6 years.
Unfortunately, I don’t think there is a way natively to do this in OneNote although I wish the function existed.
You could try this add-in site: https://www.onenotegem.com/ and try the OneNote Gem AddIns
I haven’t actually done the download and tried it, so this is just a best guess rather than a recommendation. Good Luck.