The default OneNote 2007 installation includes the OneNote 2007 Guide notebook. This reference provides examples of the types of information you can collect in OneNote and ways that you can work with it, organized in two sections:
The Getting Started with OneNote section is a 12-page manual containing basic information about how and why to use OneNote.
The More Cool Features section includes 23 pages of ideas, examples, and instructions.
In this exercise, you will take a quick tour of the OneNote 2007 Guide notebook while learning to move among sections and pages, rename sections and pages, display different views of a page, and display more information about notebook elements. We encourage you to investigate other pages of the Guide that interest you, to see examples of the techniques you will learn in this book.
On the Start menu, point to All Programs, click Microsoft Office, and then click Microsoft Office OneNote 2007.
OneNote starts, displaying the first page of the OneNote 2007 Guide notebook or, if you've used OneNote before, the page that was open when you exited. A Work Notebook and Personal Notebook are also open. The active notebook name appears at the left end of the content header, followed by tabs representing the notebook sections. Depending on your previous use of OneNote, other open notebooks might also appear on the Navigation Bar.
Do the following to make your program window look like ours:
If the Navigation Bar is minimized, click the Expand Navigation Bar button.If the OneNote 2007 Guide button does not appear on the Navigation Bar, open that notebook by following the steps in the sidebar Working with Multiple Notebooks earlier in this chapter.
If the Page Tabs area is minimized, click the Expand Page Tabs button.If the OneNote 2007 Guide is not the active notebook, click the OneNote 2007 Guide button on the Navigation Bar.
If the OneNote Basics page is not the active page, click the Getting Started with OneNote section tab, and then click the 1. OneNote basics page tab.
Right-click anywhere in the toolbar area. On the context menu that appears, select only Standard and Formatting, and clear the selection of any other visible toolbars.
Arrange the Standard and Formatting toolbars above each other in the toolbar area, below the menu bar, so that all their commands are visible.
On the Navigation Bar, right-click the Work Notebook button, and then click Close this Notebook. Then use the same method to close the Personal Notebook.
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See Also For information about the various types of notebook templates that are available, see Creating a Notebook for Use on One Computer in Chapter 14, Chapter 14.
At the top of the content pane, in the page title box containing the text 1. OneNote basics, click to place the insertion point before OneNote.
Notice that the number is part of the page title.
As you type, the title shown on the page tab to the right changes to reflect your edits.
In the notebook header, point to the partially hidden notebook title, which appears to the right of the notebook icon.
A ScreenTip appears, displaying the full notebook title.
In the notebook header, point to the More Cool Features tab.
A ScreenTip displays the complete path to the section file (the .one file). Notice that the file name matches the section name.
Click the More Cool Features tab.
The selected section opens, displaying the first page in the section or, if you have previously viewed this section, the last page you accessed. In the Page Tabs area, notice that the pages in this notebook are not numbered like the pages of the Getting Started section.
In the Page Tabs area, point to a page tab whose title appears to be cut off.
A ScreenTip displays the entire page title and the date the page was created.
Click a page tab displaying a title that interests you.
OneNote displays the selected page.
On the Navigation Bar, point to the More Cool Features button.
A ScreenTip displays the complete path to the section file (the .one file). A section tab icon indicates that this button represents a section. Notice that the section tab icon color matches that of the corresponding section tab.
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See Also For information about section colors, see the sidebar Formatting Notes, Pages, and Sections in Chapter 15, Chapter 15.
Right-click the More Cool Features button, and then click Rename.
The button name is selected for editing.
Double-click the word More.
Only the word More is selected for editing.
The names on the button and on the section tab change to reflect your edit. You can rename a section by using this technique with the Navigation Bar button or the section tab.
Point to the Really Cool Features button on the Navigation Bar, and then to the Really Cool Features section tab in the notebook header.
The ScreenTip indicates that OneNote has changed the .one file name to match the new section name.
On the Navigation Bar, click the Getting Started with OneNote button to return to that section.
At the right end of the menu bar, click the Full Page View button.OneNote displays the selected page with only the Full Page View toolbar and scroll bar visible.
Scroll the page to view its contents.
Point to the buttons on the Full Page View toolbar to familiarize yourself with these commands, which are considered to be among the most commonly used. Then click the Toolbar Options button at the right end of the Full Page View toolbar to display the additional commands available from this toolbar.
The OneNote 2007 user interface features interactive toolbars that adjust to suit the way you work. OneNote remembers the commands you use, and displays those you use most often on the visible portion of the toolbar. Other commands are available from the Toolbar Options menu. When you use a command from the Toolbar Options menu, its button moves to the visible toolbar, displacing the button of a less frequently used command.
On the Toolbar Options menu, point to Add or Remove Buttons, and then point to Full Page View.
OneNote displays a menu listing all the available Full Page View toolbar commands. You can select and clear selections on this menu to specify the commands you want to be available from the toolbar. This particular toolbar contains an unusually large number of commands, because it is the only toolbar you can display in Full Page View. You can scroll the list by pointing to the arrow at the bottom of the list (or at the top, after you've scrolled to the bottom).
Clearing a selection on this menu entirely removes the associated command from the toolbar and the Toolbar Options menu. You can restore a removed command by redisplaying this menu and selecting the command.
With the page displayed in Full Page View, click the Close button in the upper-right corner of the OneNote program window.Without prompting you to save changes, OneNote closes.
Restart OneNote by repeating step 1 or by clicking Microsoft Office OneNote 2007 in the Recently Used Programs list on the Start menu.
OneNote reopens in the standard view (not Full Page View), displaying the page that was active when you closed it. The changes you made to the notebook structure—the section name and page name—are intact.
On the File menu, click Close this Notebook.
The OneNote 2007 Guide notebook closes. The OneNote program window remains open, displaying the Unfiled Notes section.
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See Also For information about the Unfiled Notes section, see Sending Content to OneNote in Chapter 15, Chapter 15.
