Create a whole section from a list or table, pretty cool trick
The other day I was looking in a shared notebook and I saw this great table linking to a bunch of pages in the section and I wondered how the Dev manager wrote such a great table of contents for the section in such little time. Then I realized that he used our "Create Linked Page" feature.
Create Linked Page
There is a little known wiki-like feature in OneNote 2007 which allows you to select any bit of text, right-click on it and choose to "Create Linked Page". This will cause OneNote to create a new page whose title is the text you selected and it turns the original source text into a hyperlink pointing to that page. Of course if you already had a page entitled the same as the selected text it will link back to that page in the section. A very powerful feature in deed, but let's make a whole section like this.
Creating a section from the list
The Dev manager would take a list of items from a SharePoint document library and export it to Excel/Access to get the columns that he wanted to insert into OneNote. Just copy the table from OneNote and then select all of the text and right-click and choose "Create Linked Page". This is what it looks like:
Now right-click and choose the linked page option:
Which results in this:
What more can you ask for? This will create a whole new section just like that. I also heard from the Dev that if you reinsert the table as long as the title of the spec (the linked page) doesn't change then you can just redo this feature and it will patch up the links to the pages. I just thought this was just too cool for school.
