Microsoft OneNote 2007: creating and using notebooks

Welcome to the "Microsoft OneNote 2007: creating and using notebooks" demonstration. In this demo, you'll tour the default notebooks provided by OneNote 2007 and see how to make custom notebooks.

If you're just getting started with OneNote 2007, you can use the tips located in the right pane to get up to speed. For example, "OneNote basics" is a good starting point.

Let's assume you're already familiar with creating notes. Once you've added notes to OneNote 2007, you need a way to organize them into folders, just like files on your computer. In OneNote, notebooks are similar to folders.

OneNote 2007 begins with three default notebooks, which are listed along the left pane: Work Notebook, Personal Notebook and OneNote Guide 2007.

You're currently viewing the OneNote Guide 2007 notebook.

Let's open Work Notebook.

Notebooks contain one or more sections, which appear as tabs across the top of the screen. Sections are similar to sub-folders on your computer.

Click the Personal Notebook icon to open that notebook.

You can modify Work Notebook and Personal Notebook, or create new notebooks. Let's create a new notebook and customize it.

Select File, select New, and then select Notebook from the main menu near the top of the screen.

The New Notebook Wizard starts. Enter a name for the new notebook in the Name field, and then click Next.

Select whether the notebook will be used locally or shared with others, and then click Next.

To save the notebook in the default location, click Create.

The Classes notebook appears with a new, blank section.

We created another notebook named "Clients" in the same way, and its icon now appears in the notebooks list in the left pane.

Click the Expand Navigation Bar icon (the double arrows) at the top of the pane to view all notebooks and their sections. Close the expanded view when you're ready to continue.

To rename a section, double-click the tab and enter a new name.

Add some descriptive text for your page in this field.

To create an additional section, right-click a blank space in the tab area and then select New Section. Enter a name for the section, and add descriptive text to the page.

You can add as many sections as you need. Make sure you name them descriptively so you know at a glance what they contain.

To open another notebook, just click its icon in the left pane.

When you add a note in OneNote 2007, it's automatically stored within the current section of the current notebook.

However, you can also save random, or uncategorized, notes in OneNote, and then move them to the appropriate notebook later on.

You should use the Unfiled Notes area to store notes that aren't assigned to a particular notebook.

Click the Unfiled Notes icon in the lower section of the left pane.

A single note appears, which should be stored within the Classes notebook.

You can add this entire page to the Classes notebook. Just drag the page tab located on the right, and drop it in the appropriate section in the left pane.

Click M-g-m-t 101 in the left pane to open it.

Click the "Get required reading" tab on the left to view the note you just moved.

In this demonstration, you learned how to create notebooks and sections in OneNote 2007 to organize your notes. Close the demo's browser window to end the demonstration.