Absolute Beginner's Guide to Microsoft® Office OneNote™ 2003

Optimizing Sections to Save Space and Improve Performance

Given the freeform nature of OneNote, sometimes you can end up with a large amount of empty space. For example, if you're writing or typing to the edge of a page, you can click the Page Extension button at the bottom right corner of the OneNote page to add another page of space. Once you do that, however, your OneNote file size grows. If you change your mind and don't end up using that space, you've just added unneeded size to your OneNote .one file. OneNote can reclaim that space through a process called optimization.

By default, OneNote optimizes your files when there is 15% of the total section space unused. This might be an entire new page you created but never modified, or a page ...