Office 2016 All-In-One For Dummies

Chapter 3

Finding and Organizing Your Notes

In This Chapter

Finding lost notes

Tagging notes so that you can organize them better

Using colors to identify notebooks, sections, and pages

Moving and copying sections, pages, and notes

If you’re an habitual note taker, you may find yourself drowning in notes. You won’t be able to find the note you’re looking for. The great idea you had may be lost forever. How do you find the notes you want to review? More important, how can you organize your notes to make finding and recognizing them easier?

This chapter looks at how to organize your notes so that you can find them in a hurry. It tells you how to search for notes, tag notes to make finding them easier, color-code notebooks and sections, and merge and move sections, pages, and notes. You also discover OneNote’s Recycle Bin, where sections and pages go to die unless you revive them.

Finding a Stray Note

Notes have a tendency to stray. I’m not saying they move from page to page or section by section on their own in the dead of night, but it sometimes seems that way. To track down and ...