Kelly LaForest

Another OneNote feature that is only available in the OneNote App is the Convert to Shapes button. It that allows you to transform lightly sketched shapes that you draw in OneNote into precision-sharp shapes.   It’s pretty neat, but I rarely use it for business, but it can come in handy for sketching rough wireframes. …

A OneNote feature that is only available in the OneNote App is the “Recent Notes” button. This has to be my hands-down favourite new feature that I wish existed in OneNote 2016 (and 2013). (Although there is a “Back” button in OneNote 2016 (and 2013), it only takes you back through the pages you’ve visited in …

Now, why would you ever want anything other than the robust, feature-rich desktop version of OneNote 2016 (or 2013)? Off the top of my head, I can think of three key cases for using the OneNote App: Touch-Friendly New Features First Available for Free Touch-Friendly – An optimized touch screen experience. The App version of …

I received an email from a OneNote 2016 user (and lover) yesterday that who reads this blog, and had to get something off their chest about OneNote. They had a functionality request – and wanted to see if anyone else felt the same. While reviewing my email one last time before hitting send, I realized that our exchange had could be …

You insert a screenshot into OneNote. You select the image to make the anchors around the edge of the image visible. You use your cursor to select one of the corners. Being smart you think ahead and hold down the Shift key on your keyboard before you click with your mouse and move the corner …

A feature available in OneNote 2016 that I have never taken the time to explore is the “Set Picture as Background” feature for images. It is not found in the Ribbon. You can find it in the right-click context menu, but only when you select an image. The feature is not just for relieving stress …

Another often overlooked function in OneNote 2016 (and 2013), is the “Meeting Details” Button which allows you to connect your OneNote Notebook with your Outlook Calendar. This connectivity gives you insight into your calendar from within OneNote and you can pull data out of the calendar and onto the page. Check it out: For starters, …

Recently I tried to push the Paragraph Link functionality in OneNote 2016 to its limits to answer a few questions of how durable or weak the links really were. Most of my blog posts are mini-novellas, so here’s a short and sweet summary to my findings: 1. Will the link break if the text in the paragraph is …

In the final installment of blog posts to address a series of questions left remaining from a blog post I wrote in June 2014, “Microsoft OneNote – The Magic of the “Copy Link to Paragraph” button“, I answer one remaining question: “Can you link to text in a middle of a paragraph in OneNote?” Reminder: Everything …