Kelly LaForest

My Android phone received three new features in February 2018: Resize and organize Lasso select Better support when handwriting notes I’m often late to the party, but always game to try new things so let’s take each of these for a spin in my next three posts. In this post I’ll review the Resize and Organize …

I am amazed how tools that I use every day continue to provide surprises. I stumbled upon one the other day when using the OneNote Web Clipper. The OneNote Web Clipper extension for the Chrome browser is a huge time saver that makes collecting and organizing research easy. I find the Clip to OneNote interface simple …

I have whined about the absence of the Clear Formatting button in the Mini Toolbar in Microsoft OneNote 2016 for years. Turns out it’s been there all along. Yeah, that’s right. I stumbled upon my favourite pink eraser command button with the same grace as an adult tripping over their untied shoes. If you click …

One tip that I’ve found very useful for building bullet journal templates in OneNote is to use the AutoFill Series feature in Excel 2016. It works well for both dates and months, and when you copy/paste it into OneNote the table formatting is preserved. Here’s a screenshot to illustrate what copying from Excel into OneNote …

Tired of looking at a sea of red x ‘s and boxes in an email when you should be looking at a beautiful logo or photo or graphic? It’s not the senders fault. You have to tell Outlook that you trust the sender of the email. (Did I hear you groan?  It’s the same as …

I’ve been running into this weird glitch where whenever I open a meeting or event invitation in an email to add it to my calendar, it opens in the Mail App opens instead of Outlook 2016. #annoying After the # time of adding calendar invitations through the lightweight Mail App when I wanted to be in …

The ability to create a link to a specific paragraph on a page in OneNote continues to be one of my favourite features in OneNote 2016.  I  first shared my enthusiasm in a blog post called “Microsoft OneNote – The Magic of the “Copy Link to Paragraph” button” back in June 2014. For those just discovering …

On February 3, my friend and Windows Insider MVP Joel Rushworth was a guest on the Tech Talk with Alan Perry  radio show on CFAX 1070. One thing I love about this show is that they use OneNote to manage their Show Notes. He sent me a text during the show hoping for a quick answer …