Office 365 For Dummies, 2nd Edition

Chapter 14Figuring Out OneNote Online

IN THIS CHAPTER

Getting introduced to the OneNote technology

Using OneNote Online to drive productivity

Using tags to remember actions later

Writing on the web with OneNote and Edge

Microsoft OneNote is a digital notebook perfect for gathering and storing all your notes, scribbles, emails, digital handwriting, audio and video recordings, research materials, links, and other types of digital information. When you use OneNote, you get the benefit of powerful search capabilities so you can quickly find the information you need from a single location. In addition, OneNote allows you to share your notebooks with others for easy and effective collaboration.

OneNote Online is Microsoft OneNote’s cloud cousin that comes bundled with Office Online in Office 365. Like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, OneNote Online allows you to create, view, and edit notebooks from a web browser.

In this chapter, you find out about the basics of Microsoft OneNote. To set the right expectations, a comparison between the desktop application and the online version of OneNote is covered in this chapter. Instructions for tagging your notes, managing pages and sections, and restoring the previous version of a notebook are covered in the “Using Advanced Features” section of this chapter.

Exploring Basic Functions

Microsoft OneNote is a beefed-up word processing program. You can enter text and graphics to gather, organize, search, and share literally anything you can think of, ...