Office 2013 Digital Classroom

OneNote Lesson 1: Microsoft OneNote 2013 Jumpstart

In this lesson, you will become familiar with Microsoft OneNote 2013. You will learn basic OneNote terminology, explore the program’s interface, create new notebooks, insert different types of information into OneNote notebooks, and use the search tool to locate information.

What you’ll learn in this lesson:

• • Understanding the functionalities
• • Exploring the interface
• • Performing searches
• • Customizing the OneNote user interface
• • Using the Help function

Starting up

You will not need to work with any files for this lesson.

Discovering OneNote

OneNote is one of the least known products in the Microsoft Office Suite. However, OneNote is a powerful organization tool very much like an electronic notebook or ­three-ring binder. OneNote is a data collection and organization tool that allows you to take a variety of data types and combine them into an electronic notebook. The different data types that can be organized from within OneNote include:

• • Text
• • Images
• • Audio
• • Video
• • Hyperlinks & web pages
• • Freehand sketches

OneNote is organized very similarly to a physical notebook, such as a three-ring binder that students use in a school setting. For example, OneNote Notebooks contain Sections, which in turn contain Pages that you can use to store your content. Just as is the case with three-ring binders, you can rearrange OneNote ...