Starting OneNote and Taking Your First Note

To launch OneNote for the first time and start taking notes, you have two options. To launch OneNote from the Start menu, select Start, All Programs, Microsoft Office, and choose Microsoft Office OneNote 2003. OneNote opens to the General section and displays a blank page. You can click anywhere on the page and start typing.

You can also launch OneNote from the system tray. OneNote places an icon in the system tray with a purple N. You can click that icon with your right mouse button to display the OneNote Quick Launch menu, shown in Figure 1.8. Select Open OneNote to launch OneNote. Click anywhere on the page and start typing your first note.

Figure 1.8. You can launch OneNote from the system tray. ...

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