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your subscription to office 365 gives you a huge range of applications and in
this short video we're going to look at one of them OneNote let's open the
online app directly from your office 365 page you can either work directly online
or download the app to your computer whatever you choose the app will
synchronize your data when it first opens OneNote offers you a choice of
three pre formatted notebooks and you can add more at anytime let's choose
work for this demonstration and we use all the sections and at one more
development as its name implies OneNote is essentially a note-taking and note
keeping tool where you can organize rough notes into folders or notebooks
with various sections it doesn't really do much more than that but what it does
do it does very well and here's the result a complete blank page ready for
your wisdom let's see how it works we'll start by adding something to the quick
notes section type a page heading this is what you'll see in the index so make
it relevant and searchable next if you click anywhere on the page
OneNote will open a text box for you and like a text box in Word you can move it
and resize it now let's look at the ribbon under the navigation bar probably
the most used tab is the insert tab here you can select items to insert into your
notes the obvious ones are a new page or a new section and if you use word you'll
recognize the insert table tab let's try it select the number of cells 3 by 3 and
add them now let's add some text to the cells
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and we can resize the cells just as in word and there's a tool box right here
other things you can insert onto your notes page are pictures
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or even complete files to share with others or keep in a relevant place let's
try inserting a sound clip you can't play an inserted sound clip
from inside one note but you can export it to your desktop or someone else can
if you're working together that's one of the benefits of OneNote you can share it
with others as you can your calendar however you can record a sound clip from
within OneNote an audible note-taking tool and you can play it back the
controls are here now let's look at some of the other sections that the
pre-formatted notebook gives us there's meeting notes with some ideas on
how to construct them there's a set of to-do lists there's an example of
expenses though frankly I'd much rather keep these in an excel sheet and import
them into OneNote if I need to keep them in one place and so on now there's one
very interesting feature that's extremely useful and that's the ability
to clip web pages or sections of a web page directly into OneNote for future
reference for this you'll need to add an extension to your browser go to
onenote.com forward slash clipper and add the extension I happen to use Chrome
and it recognizes the browser offering to install the extension ok now it's
added let's try it by opening a web page and trying it out here's an interesting
page about Her Majesty the Queen of England to clip it to one note find the
icon on your browser mine's here yours might be in a slightly different place
if it's the first time you've used it you may also need to sign in to accept
the various clipper actions the drop down box gives me the option to choose
where I save the clip in OneNote and what bit of the web page to save I'm
going to choose to save the whole page though you might just want to say the
text or a portion of the article okay it's
done and I can see the results in my notebook here well that's a brief
overview and introduction to OneNote if you've kept scrappy post-it notes on
your wall or random files scattered around your desktop it may well be
helpful to you remember you can share your notebook with others just as you
can your calendar so it's great for team collaboration as
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