Touring OneNote

OneNote divides information into notebooks, sections, and pages. You can start OneNote from the Start menu (Start All Programs Microsoft Office Microsoft Office OneNote 2007). Rather than represent a file, each notebook is a separate subfolder within the Documents OneNote Notebooks folder within your Windows Vista user folder. (In XP, the My Documents\My Notebooks folder holds the notebook subfolders.) Each section you add to a notebook appears as a file within the folder for the notebook, and that file stores the information for the pages in the section.

In the OneNote Window, this arrangement translates to a Notebooks navigation bar at the left, where you can click a notebook’s button to display the sections for that notebook (Figure 38-1). Tabs for the sections within the selected notebook appear above the page area. Clicking a section tab selects that section, displaying page tabs for the pages in the section at the right. Click a page tab to display the contents of that page. OneNote also includes Standard and Formatting toolbars onscreen by default, and as in ...

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