Export your Outlook notes to OneNote

re: Export your Outlook notes to OneNote

Ollie — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 10:51:23 GMT

Is this only for 2007 versions..? I am still running 2003s.. I installed it without problems, but the button is not visible in Outlook.

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descapa — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 10:53:37 GMT

Yes you need Office 2007 to run this, sorry for the confusion.

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re: Export your Outlook notes to OneNote

brittog — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 13:27:21 GMT

Hi,

Is it compatible with the notes we collected in the vista box.

re: Export your Outlook notes to OneNote

Stefan — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 14:33:46 GMT

Have installed it cant start it

under Comaddins available but cant be checked

re: Export your Outlook notes to OneNote

descapa — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 20:52:17 GMT

brittog - No this only works for your notes you took in Outlook not the notes taken in the Windows Sidebar.

re: Export your Outlook notes to OneNote

John Guin — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 21:08:14 GMT

Sorry for the problems. Can you exit outlook, then uninstall and re-install?

Thanks,

John Guin

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Scott — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 01:51:47 GMT

I didn't see this mentioned. If you use it more than once, will it duplicate previously existing notes, or only copy over newly added Outlook notes?

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descapa — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 03:17:36 GMT

Scott - I believe it will duplicate previous notes though maybe John can chime in.

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John Guin — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 20:11:26 GMT

This will re-export each time you click the button. So, yes, duplicates will result.

I had originally thought about deleting the Outlook StickyNotes after export, but decided against it. Some people have thousands of these items, and I did not want to create a panic by "wiping them out" when done.

Another thought I had was adding the functionality to open OneNote instead (or in addition to) opening the Outlook Notes folder when you click it. I can see the case where you would always want access to the MAPI folder in Outlook, so completely stopping you from opening that would be bad. I can also think that once you export your notes into OneNote, you would want OneNote to be used instead of the Outlook Notes folder. I could create another addin to open OneNote in addition to the Outlook folder when you try to open the Outlook folder if there is any interest, but launching OneNote is easy enough that it would probably not be very useful to many people at all.

Just thinking out loud,

John Guin

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Craig B. — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 17:24:42 GMT

I'm looking forward to this handy add-in, but I'm having problems..

Running:

Vista Ultimate

Office/Outlook 2007

OneNote 2007

Everything appears to install correctly, but when I re-launch Outlook, the button is not loaded.

When I check Trust Settings>Add-Ins, the Export To OneNote box is listed in the inactive list. When I go to Manage Com Add-Ins, Export To OneNote is unchecked...but when I highlight it, there is an error reported below as "Not Loaded. A runtime error occurred during loading of the COM Add-in".

The funny thing is the location says just mscoree.dll without any path listed. All of my other add-ins have paths pointing to somewhere in ProgramFiles>Office12 etc.

Could it just be the mscoree.dll needs to be moved?

Thx,

Craig

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Rosie — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 01:43:59 GMT

I have Outlook 2003 and OneNote 2007. I installed the PowerToy, and the Toolbar appears, but nothing happens when I click the button. Do I need Outlook 2007 as well as OneNote 2007? Any suggestions as to how to achieve the same result in Outlook 2003?

re: Export your Outlook notes to OneNote

John Guin — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 04:48:37 GMT

As written, I have a dependency on Outlook 2007, so you need the latest version of Outlook.

On the plus side, this addin should work for all future versions of Outlook.

Sorry for the hassle,

John

re: Export your Outlook notes to OneNote

John Guin — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 04:55:48 GMT

Craig,

having mscoree.dll listed as the addin is expected: all managed code addins use this dll.

The only thing I discovered that may help is:

0. Uninstall

1. Ensure outlook is not running when you run setup.exe

2. Make sure you run setup, and not the MSI file

3. If all else fails, click the Go button and re-enable the checkbox next to the addin name. Save all your settings and restart.

Hope this helps,

John

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Benjamin Hirsch — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 19:32:42 GMT

I tried all your suggestions but I can't get it installed. I really would love to as I will then buy OneNote for our entire Sales force. Any clues?

Ben

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Mark — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 07:14:55 GMT

Dan,

One thing I'm amazed at, having once again searched like crazy, is that there is no built in or add on functionality for exporting Outlook tasks, with notes as a subitem, to OneNote. Here, when I say notes, I'm talking about what you see when you double click on an outlook task, the freeform text details about the task.

To me, onenote is the essential organizing brother for outlook, in that it gives you the ability to outline, which Outlook has never had, plus Outlook task synch. Between the 2 of them, you have the ability to hierarchically organize information in projects, and then make individual tasks "live" with scheduling and other meta-data provided in Outlook.

The only problem is, no one has had the foresite to create an easy way to export all of that Outlook content, in order to "start over" with a real organizing tool, namely an outliner. My God, am I the only one who has longed for Outlines in Outlook? I had hopes when I saw your notes exporter, but it seems this has nothing to do with "real tasks."

Ecco Pro 4.1 was THE tool for me, allowing outlining and meta-data in one. But it was killed. Please, bring this ability to Outlook/Onenote by giving me the ability to easily bring all of my tasks and sub-notes into OneNote easily. I don't even care about the Outlook meta-data since I'll be reorganizing it all from scratch. Just task and sub-notes.

Mark

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descapa — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 02:50:34 GMT

Benjamin - I know that the person who wrote this is out of the office for some time (serving overseas). If you want to contact me via the contact me I can get your email address and let you know when he gets back into town.

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Craig — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 15:02:53 GMT

John,

OK...it's working now. Thanks.

I uninstalled killed a running Outlook process and a running OneNote process...that seemed to do the trick.

-Craig

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Dave — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 00:18:03 GMT

Hi - This is just what I need, however it only seems to move one note (outlook note), which is not the file I have highlighted or open?

- Dave

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Bob — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 23:44:10 GMT

I am new to onenote. This program worked great. However, is there anyway to bring the original date the note was created into Onenote?

Thanks

Bob

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Jim — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 11:39:18 GMT

I love OneNote! I have Vista Home Premium and Office 2007 on my machine. I exported only a portion of my notes--the ones with no categories or colors applied. I've tried moving the ones already moved to a different folder in a different .PST file, but each time I try to get the remaining Outlook Notes to move, the move PowerToy sends a portion of the uncategorized Notes to the unfiled Notes section of OneNote again. Any suggestions are much appreciated!

Thanks,

Jim

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Florian — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 11:41:24 GMT

Hi all,

i still there where "craig" was, before - the trick - was working. I tried everything written here, also to stop outlook and onenote prozess in taskmanager, but its not helping, the add-in is not acceptet.. the error is the same.... I have a lot to export....;)

any idea from someone?

thanks,

re: Export your Outlook notes to OneNote

JohnGuin — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 03:22:52 GMT

If you are running on Vista, be sure to run as admin, and select to "Install for all users."

John

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rwrwrw — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 18:52:09 GMT

*** 3 Critical issues!!!

1) Will it export each sticky note from OUTLOOK as a new page in OneNote?

2) Will it export each folder in OUTLOOK note as a separate FOLDER/Notebook in OneNote?

3) Will it retain the original date/time attributes of the sticky note from outlook?

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Joshua — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 02:10:58 GMT

Is there a way to do the same with Outlook Contact Notes?

Joshua1818@gmail.com

re: Export your Outlook notes to OneNote

Joshua Bergman — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 19:02:57 GMT

Is there a way to export Outlook CONTACT Notes to OneNote?

Thanks

re: Export your Outlook notes to OneNote

Dan Lauer — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 01:21:09 GMT

Install seemed to go OK. Outlook 2007 and OneNote both closed during install, no running processes for either. Toolbar shows up fine in Outlook. I select a note, a OneNote task fires up in the background...then nuttin. No confirmation dialog, no note on the OneNote side. Clues?

Dan

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Anthony King — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 09:57:57 GMT

Excellent bit of software, thanks!

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Michael C. — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 14:18:33 GMT

I've tried ExportOutlookNotestoOneNote and it doesn't work - i.e. nothing happens when yuou click. What a shame! Any hints? And could you tell me how to uninstall?

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W.D. Elliott — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 16:26:54 GMT

What is the difference between this add-in and the icon in the toolbar call "Send selected e-mail to OneNote"?

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Hunt Russell — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 01:24:57 GMT

Worked like a charm....thanks!

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Angelo — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 20:52:10 GMT

AHA .. I found out why it wasn't installing!

Not only do you have to close Outlook .. but you must have your smartphone/pda disconnected from computer if you have one.

If your phone is connected and you use ActiveSync, Outlook never actually fully closes.

Close Outlook, Disconnect your phone from your computer, reinstall, reopen Outlook .. what Whalaa!

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Chance — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 20:28:16 GMT

Installed the power toy fine. When I run the export it will only export the first (2) notes and stop.

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d. thayer — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 22:44:16 GMT

This tool is great and gets my notes to OneNote very effectively. I have noticed that it will drop anything surrounded by a GT and LT sign. For example, a note including the text "segment (surrounded by <% ... %>) and..." will be transferred as "segment (surrounded by ) and..."

Is there any way that anyone knows of to get around this?

Thanks!

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Kal — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 23:49:17 GMT

This works great for text notes, but not for the handwritten notes I have. Any way to move them over?

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Alex — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 00:23:58 GMT

I am using Windows XP Professional SP2 and Office 2007 so both OneNote and Outlook are the 2007 edition.

I install the powertoy with Outlook and OneNote closed.

When i open the notes section i don't seem to be able to find the ExportToOneNote button.

It's not in the toolbars section and the strange thing is that it is mentioned as active in the Add-Ins list at Trust Center!

Any ideas...?

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aresquare — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 23:50:52 GMT

No JOY! I have it installed but cannot get the toolbar to appear. I have tried all the above "tricks" (kill services, run as admin, no PDA attached, GO and enable). The Add-In showed to be disabled. I enable, exit, restart Outlook and it is disabled. The .dll behavior show unloaded but I cannot seem to load it. Re-installed many time now... NO JOY! Thoughts? I have tons of notes to move to OneNote.

only exporting a few OL notes to ON

Antoine — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 05:54:17 GMT

When I chose to export my notes, it only exports very few of my notes. All my notes have no category or anything else than the note body, so I cannot seem to understand why just a few are making it to ON. Any idea?

Thanks

antoine

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Ken — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 23:33:31 GMT

Installed OK & worked once. Now getting Sysrem.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException Error (x80042006)

Have to close Outlook from Taskmanager to continue.l

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Malte — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:43:55 GMT

I am facing exactly the same problem as aresquare...

installed, reinstalled, followed all the mentioned tricks, but... nothing!

Any more helpful thoughts?

WOuld be strongly appreciated!

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John — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:39:20 GMT

Like others above, I am not having complete success with this add-on. The installed seems to run fine. The toolbar appears and seems to do "something" when launched but nothing appears in OneNote.

I've followed the suggestions above but can't seem to get it to work.

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Stefano Cuccu — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:39:49 GMT

Nice! I had a lot of outlook notes and transfered them in OneNote.

Thanks a lot!

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Malte — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 12:22:29 GMT

Hello John and other people struggling to get the powertoy running,

I have finally managed to install it and now it works properly.

The decisive step was to enable .NET-Support for Outlook. This can be done in the office configuration. A more detailled explanation can be found here

http://blogs.msdn.com/johnguin/archive/2008/03/17/the-3-biggest-pain-points-we-are-investigating.aspx

(refering to OneNote, but the spot where to change settings is the same for Outlook; when enabling .NET-support for Outlook you should at the same time also enable .NET support for oneNote)

Hope that helps!

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Or Cohen — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 01:50:12 GMT

It doesn't export any notes when all or part of the notes are notes synchronized from a pocket pc device.

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Florence — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 22:23:40 GMT

I'm following your directions but I'm getting

an error wzeay32.dll with the winzip. Any ideas?

Thanks,