Selecting, Moving, and Deleting Notes

As a page starts to get crowded with notes, you have to move the notes around in order to read them. Sometimes you have to delete them as well. However, before you can move or delete a note, you have to select it.

The trick to selecting a note is to click the bar along its top. You can tell when the pointer is over this bar because it turns into the four-headed arrow pointer.

OneNote offers a quick way to move several notes lower on a page: the Insert Space button. You can also move several notes by selecting them and dragging.

Select, Move, and Delete Notes

  1. Move the pointer over the bar along the top of a note; to select the note, click when you see the four-headed pointer.

  2. Drag the note to move it to a different ...

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