Kelly LaForest

So there are a few confused (and slightly frustrated) folks in my office today.  “X Notebook was updated by X Person” email notifications started arriving without warning. What’s interesting is the notifications are not arriving for every Notebook, and are not arriving in “real time”. I started noticing when received a few email notifications about changes to …

Applying styles to text in OneNote is now even easier using keyboard shortcuts. Instead of using your mouse to click three buttons, you can now perform one keyboard shortcut to get the same result. Bonus: Save yourself some time – simply place your cursor in the phrase you want to format (i.e. don’t waste time …

UPDATE – June 1, 2017: Some small wording changes and an extra screenshot have been added to make the instructions as clear as possible for all readers. Situation: My itgroove colleague Colin Phillips, author of the SharePoint MMMan blog, was experiencing an odd behaviour with OneNote 2013 (desktop) after upgrading the operating system on his Surface Pro to Windows …

The other day a client popped by with a question about inserting a file printout in OneNote 2013. He wanted to understand why he was getting different results when he performed the exact same steps in the exact same order. For some PDF files, OneNote would insert all the printout images on the same page. For other PDF files, OneNote would insert all …

I have Send To OneNote set to automatically start up each time I turn on my computer, which is handy when I want to capture a screen clipping or a create new quick note without having to wait the 30 seconds it takes for the OneNote program to open. I have Outlook 2013 set to …

My colleague at itgroove Alec McCauley pointed out a quick tip that I had never noticed before. When you take a screenshot or screen clipping using SnagIt and paste it into OneNote from the SnagIt Editor, if the image is wider than the visible OneNote screen area, OneNote will insert a smaller sized image. If you …

Today I deleted a OneNote Notebook that was no longer being used. It was sitting in the SharePoint library empty for many months with a hyperlink to the location where the information was now being stored. Around the itgroove office, we consider it a huge faux pas to not take the time to point others to where to find …

While writing a blog post tonight my mind was drawing a blank on another word for actual. Inspiration comes in waves for me, and being on a roll, I did not want to have to stop the flow to go open the internet browser, go to a thesaurus and look up an alternate word online. Too many …