How OneNote organizes your material
OneNote uses the metaphor of a notebook, complete with books, sections, and pages. Your copy of OneNote can have multiple notebooks, each dedicated to a different topic. You might have a notebook for work and one for personal information, for example, or you might create a handful of different notebooks for each major project.
Within the notebook, you can create sections to organize your notes even further. If you work in sales, for example, you could create a different section for each client. Finally, within any section, you can have an unlimited number of pages, making it easy to track information over long periods.
What you can do in OneNote
Once you set up a notebook and create a section, you are faced with a blank page. Like any word processor, you can start typing. As you do, OneNote will offer Word-like tools in the ribbon atop the screen: font selection, text style, bullets and numbering, highlighting, and more. You can also create tables to organize your notes and insert images, photos, audio, and video. The app also grants users the ability to create links or paste in URLs from web browsers.
If you are using OneNote on a tablet or a computer with a stylus, you can also draw, sketch, and write notes longhand.
Sharing notes from OneNote
OneNote is a versatile tool that you can use privately, or share with others - and with yourself on different devices.
If you store your OneNote notebooks in the cloud on OneDrive, you can open OneNote on any device connected to your Microsoft Office account. Whether that's a phone, tablet, PC, or laptop, you'll always be in sync with all your notes across devices.
You can share entire notebooks with other people using the Share button in the ribbon, though know you're sharing the whole notebook, not only a section or a page.
A feature called Replay lets you create a page of notes and then play it back like an animation. This is a tool you can use in the classroom or for delivering a presentation.
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