Administrative Assistant's and Secretary's Handbook, 5th Edition

Chapter 24

Using Microsoft OneNote

What Is Microsoft OneNote?

Microsoft OneNote is a powerful note-taking tool that provides you with a digital notebook for storing all your notes and information. It can be extremely useful to an administrative assistant who takes notes at meetings and then needs to be able to quickly find those notes again in the future. OneNote has a powerful search capability that makes it easy to quickly find your information.

Unlike a word processor like Microsoft Word, or an email system like Microsoft Outlook, OneNote lets you gather and organize text, pictures, digital handwriting, audio, video, and websites. All of your notes and information are organized into digital notebooks.

For example, you could use OneNote to ...