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My Strategy to Switch from OneNote 2016 to OneNote for Windows 10
This post is inspired by an inspiring tweet from Craig McBain (@CVSTech) where he shared a big step he took recently to use OneNote 2016 less, and the OneNote for Windows 10 App more. What He Did: “unpinning OneNote 2016 from my taskbar and pinning the OneNote app” It is a big step, and a great idea! I …
Read onList of SharePoint Resources
I was recently asked by a fellow Victoria Office 365 Users Group member: “Can you recommend a forum where I can go for questions in regard to SharePoint functionality?” My response was: When I am seeking answers about SharePoint, these are the publicly accessible sites and forums that I visit: Microsoft SharePoint Support Microsoft SharePoint …
Read onUsing the OneNote Outlook Meeting Details Feature in a Teams OneNote Notebook
I was delighted to be invited to be part of a Q&A session with my friends and fellow techies Heather Severino and Alec McCauley, organized by Jared DeCamp, as part of his Learn Teams Conference 2018 (a free online event which ran from April 3-7, 2018). The post-conference event gave attendees an opportunity to ask us …
Read onOneNote Customized Inking Pens Travel With You Across Devices and Office Programs
Opened up OneNote for Windows 10 as I found some fun new bullet journal inspiration on Pinterest that I wanted to try my hand at duplicating using the OneNote Inking pens. To my delight there was a new feature pop-up stating that customized pens will now travel with you across devices! The announcement says: “Choose …
Read onHow to Make the OneNote Web Clipper Icon Visible in your Chrome Browser
Some time ago my OneNote Web Clipper extension for my Google Chrome browser disappeared. I was rather annoyed that I had to click on the vertical three dots icon to access theClip to OneNote button. I lived with this annoyance for over 6 months before feeling compelled to figure it out. It was an embarrassingly …
Read onResize and Move Images Around in OneNote for Android
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 …
Read onUsing the Recipe Option in the OneNote Web Clipper
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 …
Read onHow to Clear Formatting in Text Using the Mini Toolbar Menu in OneNote 2016
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 …
Read onVideo: Quickly Create a Days of the Month Table in OneNote using Excel
A video is worth a thousand screenshots. So I’ve created a short video (2:25) to compliment the previous post on How to Use AutoFill in Excel to Quickly Create a Bullet Journal Layout in OneNote. The video below shows how to use the AutoFill feature in Excel to quickly create a table that shows the days of …
Read onHow to Use AutoFill in Excel to Quickly Create a Bullet Journal Layout in OneNote
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 …
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