Sort Pages powertoy

re: Sort Pages powertoy

Erik Gulbrandsen — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 08:21:31 GMT

Daniel,

This addon is SO highly coveted! I fully plan on using OneNote for my clinical practice, however, I was really concerned about being able to find my patients quickly. This will be just great (I can sort at the end of every day).

Suggestions? Well, maybe an addon like this, but it will automatically take a page that begins with B and place it in the B section (or any other letter). This will help me find my patient's names more quickly.

Thanks!

erik

re: Sort Pages powertoy

Robert MacLean — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 09:52:18 GMT

This seems to only do pages in a section, not the sections themselves. Since pages in a section are sort of date ordered I don't really mind their ordering (since I normally need to see the last few pages only), but the sections is the big area where sorting is needed.

It works very well though on the pages :)

re: Sort Pages powertoy

Shayne — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 21:01:53 GMT

I can't get this or the Word Count power toy to work...and it says I already have the .Net Framework 2.0 installed as part of my operating system. And of course, I have the wonderful OneNote 2007.

re: Sort Pages powertoy

Rob Bushway — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 23:15:13 GMT

I can't get the toolbar option to show up at all. It also doesn't display in my list of add-ins.

I'm running Vista and OneNote 2007.

This looks like a great add-in!

re: Sort Pages powertoy

Rob Bushway — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 23:27:16 GMT

I rebooted, removed the add-in, and re-ran the setup. worked like a charm. great work. we'll get this posted up on GBM

New OneNote 2007 PowerToys

Chris Pratley's OneNote Blog — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 01:48:24 GMT

Dan Escapa is on a tear releasing a set of new PowerToys for OneNote 2007. What's going on is that a

re: Sort Pages powertoy

EMRHelp — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 05:11:21 GMT

I'd like to be able to right click on a section and select alphabetize.

re: Sort Pages powertoy

Barbara Duck — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 07:53:51 GMT

Absolutely great add on. Great to see the comments from Dr. Erik too with how it helps keep track of his patients! I have it now on all my tablets with One Note and will use it regularly. Keep the good stuff coming!

OneNote 2007 alpha sorting

John at myITforum.com — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 15:09:12 GMT

Do you use OneNote 2007? Check out this powertoy for One Note from Dan Escapa. It sorts tabs in alpha

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Due to a busy travel schedule and working on the agenda of Dev & IT-Pro Days 2007 , I haven't been

re: Sort Pages powertoy

John Waller — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 09:26:21 GMT

>>I'd like to be able to right click on a section and select alphabetize.

Exactly what I've been looking for over the past 2 years of using OneNote.

"Sort pages alphabetically" is great.

"Sort Sections alphabetically" would be nirvana.

re: Sort Pages powertoy

Mark Stuart — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 20:41:48 GMT

This plug-in dies when apply to empty sections. To replicate:

1. create a new section called test

2. delete the default page created my One Note

3. Apply A-Z sorting using plug-in

OneNote hangs and I get a message about HRESULT appearing in a dialog box.

Otherwise this plug-in is very useful, so thanks for the effort taken to develop it!

re: Sort Pages powertoy

descapa — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 20:47:30 GMT

Mark - Looks like you found a bug I didn't test for. *sigh* if you want I will be publishing the code so you can fix it up if you want!

re: Sort Pages powertoy

confuchsia — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 23:22:13 GMT

.. sort to pages unfortunately refused to work for me on onenote 2007 (with netframework 2.0) as well, even after uninstalling, rebooting and reinstalling. the same applies to the word count powertoy.

re: Sort Pages powertoy

descapa — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 01:04:10 GMT

confuchsia - Are you running Windows Vista? Do you have UAC/LUA turned off? I have only heard of a problem where people had UAC turned off and you need to reinstall the app and select the "Install for All Users' option and that seemed to fix up most problems.

Please let me know if this works for you as well, thanks!

re: Sort Pages powertoy

confuchsia — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 08:44:57 GMT

hello descapa. no, i am still running window xp. are the powertoys written specifically for windows vista then?

re: Sort Pages powertoy

descapa — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 21:04:24 GMT

confuchsia - No the apps are written for both Vista & XP. I haven't heard of problems with XP. Please try a reinstall with the "all users" option turned on. That is all that I can suggest, hope this works

re: Sort Pages powertoy

confuchsia — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 11:20:49 GMT

a reinstall with 'all users' option turned on did the trick. thank you descapa.

re: Sort Pages powertoy

John Waller — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 23:58:02 GMT

Any luck with tweaking this Sort Pages Powertoy to get a "Sort Sections alphabetically" Powertoy instead?

re: Sort Pages powertoy

descapa — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 03:06:15 GMT

Yes John please see here:

http://blogs.msdn.com/descapa/archive/2007/03/03/sort-sections-powertoy.aspx

Let me know how this goes for you!

re: Sort Pages powertoy

Ton van der velden — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 12:29:58 GMT

Excellent! I have wanted this feature for so long!

Now all that i need is a way to collaps all the subpages, so i only see the page level....

Any ideas?

re: Sort Pages powertoy

lullman — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 01:47:23 GMT

Thanks so much for doing this. I recently bought OneNote 2007 and am hooked, but this was one of the few things I've noticed so far that I thought it sorely lacked. Lack of alphabetizing ability and subpages that don't stay grouped in moves (This boggles my brain. I have to be doing something wrong) are my top two pet peeves so far - thanks for eliminating one of them!

re: Sort Pages powertoy

Ash — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 07:14:26 GMT

Any chance of having similar functionality for OneNote 2003?

re: Sort Pages powertoy

descapa — Tue, 01 May 2007 22:12:34 GMT

No sadly there is no way to do this in OneNote 2003. The improved API (which enables this) was a new feature in OneNote 2007

re: Sort Pages powertoy

Ton — Wed, 23 May 2007 04:56:45 GMT

is there a way to collaps all the subpages, so i only see the page level....?

great tool

jeff — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 18:13:19 GMT

this is a GREAT feature. For the life of me I can not fathom why a simple SORT feature was not inculded in OneNote in the first place. Does anyone have an idea besides "not high enough priority"? Maybe Microsoft should have put more people on ON rather than the silly Zune.

re: Sort Pages powertoy

Andy — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 10:03:49 GMT

This worked great once. Since that initial sort, the button just goes gray and I have to exit onenote for it to stop.

I highly recommend people DON'T install this.

re: Sort Pages powertoy

John Jameson — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 22:52:14 GMT

Wow! I am responsible for vendor management and the ability to keep my notes sorted by vendor is a great boost to my work!!

Summer OneNote 2007 news round-up

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It's getting hard to keep blogging about OneNote in detail now that I am no longer on the team, but I

re: Sort Pages powertoy

Li-fan Chen — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 09:20:21 GMT

I tried it (XP Pro and Office 2007 Ultimate with the Install for Everyone option. After reboots and reinstalls nothing. It doesn't work. It gets dumped into the Program Files. A dll and a bmp shows up. That's it though.

re: Sort Pages powertoy - Can not get to work

Ben — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 10:48:29 GMT

Hi,

Can any-one help? Using XP, Onenote 2007 and .net 2.0 and installed sort pages for everyone but pages sort does not work. Button appears. Click once nothing happens and then goes greyed out. Any-one got any ideas?

Ben

.net Programmability Support not installed on default

Ben — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 13:52:27 GMT

Hi,

I was also having problems with sort pages not working as posted, but found the solution. Although I had .net 2.0 installed, xp etc. when onenote 2007 was originally installed it did not install .net Programmability Support by default. all you need to do is add that installation option to run from the computer by adding the feature from your onenote office disks and all works fine.Hope this helps.

re: Sort Pages powertoy

Anirudh — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 18:05:18 GMT

hi dan,

are you releasing the code for this? It would be of help if you did.

Thanks,

Anirudh

Source code please

Hoyt Nelson — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 16:06:57 GMT

I'd like to modify the code so it examines the existing sort order and reverses it -- so you can sort A-Z then Z-A by applying it twice. The sort order would be determined by examining the first two pages.

Is the source available, please?

re: Sort Pages powertoy

StanLee — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 17:46:21 GMT

On occasion my Vista Windows Mobile Device Center just...well.. doesn't recognize the device and a new partnership has to be created. This creates a second OneNote Mobile section called "DeviceName_2". Although the mobile device sorts the pages, the local App doesn't... or at least it didn't before I downloaded this app.

I really... appreciate... your time... you certainly saved me a bunch of time.

Thanks again..

re: Sort Pages powertoy

jim — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 23:48:43 GMT

this is great. any chance for a similar powertoy to sort lines in a table?

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re: Sort Pages powertoy

Peter — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 18:28:02 GMT

This is nice, but a "sort by date" button would be godlike.

Could this be realized?

re: Sort Pages powertoy

Ben — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:12:44 GMT

Awesome! 30 seconds to download, install, and use.

re: Sort Pages powertoy

Ton — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 10:02:41 GMT

Is there a way to collaps all the subpages, so i only see the page level?

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Ton

re: Sort Pages powertoy

Denis Fayruzov — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:59:25 GMT

I would greatly appreciated, if Sort Pages powertoy not only alhpabetically, but also by creation/modification time.

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If you don't know I am a HUGE OneNote fan and have converted countless people from using Notepad

re: Sort Pages powertoy

Fred — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 11:33:03 GMT

Is it possible to get Sort Pages powertoy to sort in reverse order as well? Like instead of sorting dates from 1990 to 2008, sort them from 2008 to 1990?

This would be a great help.

re: Sort Pages powertoy

Clint — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 22:54:57 GMT

Any possibility of a power toy to sort a OneNote table by a particular column?

re: Sort Pages powertoy

Ton — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:55:35 GMT

Is there a way to collaps all the subpages, so i only see the page level?

puhlease?

re: Sort Pages powertoy

JK — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:37:52 GMT

I simply cannot figure out why you would not add in a plethora of sorting options. Learning the API and such is the 'hard' part, not basic sorting.

Even more puzzling is that you haven't posted the source code yet (or at least not in an obvious location).

Correct me about the source code? Either way I'll probably just end up doing it all myself. I just can't understand how so many people seem to actively minimize the beneficial impact their contributions have (though it would have been worse had you never tried or just kept it to yourself...).

re: Sort Pages powertoy

Ash Haque — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 22:40:40 GMT

Doesn't work for me; Onenote 2007

Clicking the link doesn't do anything except making the button go grey on the toolbar :-(

re: Sort Pages powertoy

Ash Haque — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 22:48:33 GMT

EDIT: Reread the comments, your tip about installing it for everyone instead of just for me worked great!

Thanks for the awesome powertoy

re: Sort Pages powertoy

Mark — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:04:13 GMT

Awesome!

I have been looking for something that does EXACTLY what your powertoy does!

Thank you.

re: Sort Pages powertoy

Roland Openshaw — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 11:09:59 GMT

Just fantastic - a great help.

No if I could just find a way of sorting tables...

re: Sort Pages powertoy

RDYW88 — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 06:14:18 GMT

hi, does this work on Vista 64 bit? I've had such bad luck with installing utilities and apps, I'd really appreciate a yea or nay before I even try.

Thanks!

re: Sort Pages powertoy

Rainer — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:44:34 GMT

Hello Daniel,

thank you very much for this! I have been missing this function in OneNote, because I always want to keep the current projects of my "Getting Things Done" notebook sorted. Thanks to you, I don't have to do that manually any more.

Very useful!

Kind regards,

Rainer

re: Sort Pages powertoy

Lyle — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 21:23:34 GMT

How about a sort by table column? It would be so nice to be able to sort a table by one of the columns. Sorting in Word/Excel and pasting it back is so much of a pain.

Finally!

Paul — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 06:40:46 GMT

This is exactly what I have been searching for. Why on earth doesn't Microsoft have this feature in OneNote already? Send it to 'em!

re: Sort Pages powertoy

Mark Jordan — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 14:09:39 GMT

I know that you've been asked several times if you will be releasing your source code, and you've indicate in the Sort Sections blog post that you would soon be doing so. Is that still going to happen?

I want to make a couple of enhancements to your logic (ie. sort by date) and contribute it back to the community. Truth be told, I already pushed your bits through Reflector, dissassembled to source code, and got it building and functioning; of course, I'm not at all comfortable releasing my results to the community based on your work without your permission.

The source could be very helpful for others trying to write similar types of functions for their onenote environments. I, for one, would give full credit to your origination if a subsequent release of an enhancement is submitted to the community.

Thanks for considering.

re: Sort Pages powertoy

OnenoteR — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 15:37:47 GMT

The idea is good but the method is still to be optimized. It doesn't install/uninstall properly.

I hope that I will not lose any section or pages in onenote

re: Sort Pages powertoy- phenomenal!

Kathy — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 19:30:24 GMT

I'm a complete non-techie.....lots of comments in this blog made no sense to me...but this worked beautifully, even for me! Had wanted a way to sort recipes and was considering making multiple sections, but this is so much easier. Thanks for sharing your expertise!

Machine Setup: OneNote Sort Pages Powertoy

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I use Microsoft OneNote a lot for notes, tasks, projects, reference, etc.  One of the addins that

re: Sort Pages powertoy

Michael Harrison — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 18:18:10 GMT

When will the source become available?

I'd like a sort by date function for times when I combine sections

re: Sort Pages powertoy

Hoyt Nelson — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:53:44 GMT

Source code?!?! PLEASE! What's up with that?

I too want to be able to sort by date.

If you're not gonna publish the source code -- OK, that's your decision, but tells us, so we don't keep coming back here wondering if it's happened.

Thanks, Hoyt

re: Sort Pages powertoy

Ted — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:50:07 GMT

This looks promising, but the link is broken! I can't download the Sort Pages powertoy. Will it ever be available again?

re: Sort Pages powertoy

Craig — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 17:49:35 GMT

I use a Vista-64 system and can't get it to even show up on the tool bar (installed for myself or for everyone's use). Any suggestions?

Note, please see http://blogs.msdn.com/johnguin/archive/2007/08/16/merge-pages-in-onenote-powertoy.aspx for a tool to merge pages (and subpages).

re: Sort Pages powertoy

Karen — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 09:50:31 GMT

YAY!!!!! Thanks for the amazing tool. I'm shocked they didn't include it in the first place. I haven't read all the comments, but I didn't think my download worked -- until I had to find the icon hidden on the tool bar.

Thank you VERY much.

re: Sort Pages powertoy

Kathryn — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 09:45:01 GMT

A really useful tool - just what I've needed since I started using OneNote!

Thank-you so much!

re: Sort Pages powertoy

Carolyn Griffin — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:29:36 GMT

THANK YOU!!! Would love to see this let me have my choice of sort order - alpha, creation date or last edit date.

YOU ARE THE BEST!!!!!!

re: Sort Pages powertoy

Ardeet — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:48:45 GMT

Daniel,

Thank you very much for this utility. I still find it hard to believe that it's not standard with OneNote.

Good effort!