Microsoft® Office System Plain & Simple -- 2003 Edition

Chapter 16. Taking Notes with OneNote

In this section

• What’s Where in OneNote?

• Typing a Note

• Using a Side Note

• Drawing a Note

• Recording a Note

• Formatting a Note

• Classifying Your Notes

• Transferring Information

• Distributing Notes

Microsoft Office OneNote 2003 is simple but difficult, intuitive but confusing, elegant but ungainly. To what does it owe its split personality? It’s not the program that’s at fault—it’s our thinking about the way a program should work. We’ve learned that everything is linear on a computer: One word follows another, one line follows another, one paragraph follows another. We’ve also learned that everything is digital on a computer—a letter is simply a character in a specific font at a specific size. However, when we’re not in the ...