OneNote 2007 is available with three editions of the 2007 Microsoft Office system: Home and Student (the subject of this book), Ultimate (the premium edition for home use), and Enterprise (the premium edition for business use, available only to volume licensing customers). It is also available as a stand-alone retail product, so you can add the program to any other edition of the Office system or use OneNote independently.
If you have been using OneNote 2003, you should be aware of the following before installing OneNote 2007:
If you install OneNote 2007 rather than upgrade from OneNote 2003 to OneNote 2007, both versions of the application will be available from the Start menu on your computer.
The first time you start OneNote 2007, it copies any existing OneNote 2003 notebooks from the DocumentsMy Notebook folder (the default OneNote 2003 notebook location) to the DocumentsOneNote Notebooks folder (the default OneNote 2007 notebook location) and upgrades the copies to the OneNote 2007 file format. This process can be time consuming. The original notes might be split into multiple notebooks if necessary to conform to the OneNote 2007 file-storage model.
You can open a OneNote 2003 notebook in OneNote 2007 and view the notes it contains. If you try to edit the notes, OneNote 2007 offers the option of upgrading the active notebook section.
You cannot open a OneNote 2007 notebook in OneNote 2003. (A file converter might become available in the future, but none is available at this time.)
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For information about available converters and add-ins for OneNote and other Office system programs, visit the Downloads area of the Office Online Web site at
office.microsoft.com/downloads/
You can browse downloads on the site by selecting a program in the left pane, or you can search for a specific download by entering keywords in the Search box at the top of the page.
If you are considering upgrading to OneNote 2007 but haven't yet done so, here are some of the new features that you might find useful:
Support for multiple notebooks, computers, and users. You can maintain separate notebooks for different purposes, merge multiple notebooks into one notebook, access a notebook from another computer, or invite other people to collaborate simultaneously in adding notes to a notebook.
Support for Microsoft Office Outlook. You can send information between Outlook 2007 or Outlook 2003 and OneNote 2007, and synchronize task lists between the two programs.
Web page references. You can send Web content from Windows Internet Explorer to OneNote. When you do so, OneNote also collects and stores information about the source of the Web content, so you can easily reference or return to the source.
Hyperlinks. You can link to specific notes and pages to move around a notebook's content in logical ways.
Document references. You can insert a file as an attachment into a notebook page, or insert the file's contents.
Really cool search capability. You can very quickly locate information in text, images, and audio files.
OneNote Mobile. You can capture information on a Windows Mobile device and synchronize it with a OneNote notebook.
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Do you want to try before you buy? You can find more information about OneNote 2007, including a free, fully featured trial version and a free online test drive (take it!) at
office.microsoft.com/OneNote/
At the end of the trial period, the functionality of the trial version will be limited. You can still view and print existing notes, but you can't update them or create new notes. You can restore full functionality (without losing your notes) by installing a genuine licensed copy of OneNote.