Overview of OneNote 2010 – What’s new for you

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Ken Stone — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 02:03:08 GMT

Did the file format change? i.e. can I use OneNote 2010 with my existing notebook and have the sync still work when I use it on OneNote 2007?

Sync - really sync?

Boris Dušek — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 11:05:05 GMT

Hi, I want to clear this up once and forever - by "Sync to cloud", do you mean that

1. the notebook will be on a PC and then synced to the Windows Live cloud whenever I change it. When I am not on the Internet, I will be able to work on the notebook on my PC; when I connect to the Internet, the changes get synced back to cloud. When I work on the notebook from the Web app only and then come to my PC, it will sync back the changes made in the Web app to the PC.

2. The notebook (if I choose to) will be exclusively in the cloud and OneNote will access it (write to it/read from it) "directly" on the cloud; When I am not connected to internet, I will not be able to work on it/read it.

I ask because with Word/Excel/PowerPoint and current Office Live, option 2. is currently what happens. Having option 1. (at least for OneNote) would be awesome and something I have dreamed of.

Thanks, Boris

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TechieBird — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:01:54 GMT

Oh you *beauty*. Following on from Boris' comment, assuming when you say sync you mean *sync* and not just cache to view, the Universal Access feature could be amazing if it works well. This was something I requested on Connect ages ago, so I'm going to kid myself I had a small part in making it happen ;o)

We most definitely mean sync

DavidRasmussen — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 22:34:56 GMT

Yep. We most definitely mean sync as in your number 1. This is the model for OneNote 2007 today and it works today against Windows File Shares, SharePoint servers, DAV servers etc. (basically any supported single master file server...). We're extending that by giving you a default place in the cloud that will work against.

The beauty of OneNote (even in 2007) is that it syncs and is available to you offline from anywhere, and yet we still merge in simultaneous changes from different machines that may have been offline to each other for some period of time. It's seemless. If you have access to a Windows File share or SharePoint you can try that today and see what I mean. We're just extending that to the cloud.

David Rasmussen

Group Program Manager, OneNote

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Travis Spencer — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 09:18:18 GMT

1. Will the Web app work w/ Firefox?

2. What version of Windows Mobile will the new mobile app run on? 6.5 only? (I hope it works on 6.1.)

Hyperlinkable images?

edgebert — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 17:17:07 GMT

This was something not yet available, will it now be available?

Thank you for making sub-pages adjustable!

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matzer — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 13:35:24 GMT

Will OneNote 2010 provide better capabilites to automate things? Extended object model for VBA like the other Office apps...

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Dominic — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:33:47 GMT

Oh, please do not remove the ability to make custom toolbars. I am a tablet user and some feats I just need really quick (change my predefined pens, get more space!, delete selection,...) and I used to arrange them in a custom toolbar that I keep alway "in range" of my writing hand.

Besides, looks really promising - I'm especially looking forward to the "equations" thing.

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Sandra — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:21:57 GMT

"Ribbon: OneNote now has the Ribbon. We’ve designed this to optimize for the key OneNote scenarios and make them easier to use. This is also what enables us to more easily add features like math equation editing (the common controls for that use the Ribbon), and potential future features."

Read: We know the ribbons suck, but we were forced by the Office Program Manager to integrate it...

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Cliff — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 22:14:10 GMT

Is it just me, or does the concept of docking OneNote make you giddy too?

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Clinton — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 00:16:03 GMT

Please tell me that ability to crop images is included in Onenote 2010?

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David — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:44:46 GMT

Daniel,

You mention that 2010 will highlight new information. Is there any way when posting new information to notify people of the changes other than manually sending them an email? It would be really nice to be able to right click on a page and notify people. Highlighting is an improvement, but still requires people to search through various notebooks to see if there are changes, which frankly is not of much use as soon as you have more than a few notebooks. I need team members to *know* when new info has been posted.

Thanks

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David — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 20:51:05 GMT

I downloaded the technical preview. Still no option for the often asked for basic ability to password protect a notebook, or section group?!

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Mark — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 05:29:39 GMT

David,

If you right click on a section you get the option to Password Protect this Section...

(This is also available in OneNote 2007).

Hope this helps - unless of course you wanted it less granular.

Mark

re: Overview of OneNote 2010 – What’s new for you

David — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 20:00:04 GMT

Hi Mark,

Many of us want to be able to password protect a notebook or section group. So yes, less granular as you put it.

Thanks,

David

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Tim — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:50:44 GMT

A really useful feature would be the ability to number pages when you "Insert File as Printouts". I use OneNote to take notes in class, but sometimes the professors will refer to previous slides by slide number, which is easy to find in Powerpoint, but (as far as I've been able to tell) impossible in OneNote except by going to the beginning and counting

Thanks!

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Paul — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 22:26:37 GMT

The ability to embed other office documents would be great - I'm note just talking about the inserting a file or printing a copy as a background image but having an embedded spreadsheet or word document that you could work with - This would make life a whole lot easier

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embedding and mind mapping would be great — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:39:48 GMT

I second the request for embedding documents such as spread sheets.

I would also love to see some sort of mind mapping tool that allows for brainstorming and concept mapping... something like a light version of Mindjet MindManager.

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Dr Nagendra — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 20:57:57 GMT

Hey

Im using Onenote 2007 to make notes of medical kind and its proving handy to organize my information and help me memorize better which i could never do before and its wonderful ..

Could you please improve text search within images ...sometimes it shows nonsense in search ..there are lots of Google books ..It would really help doctors ...

Hats of to Onenote again ..A miracle of this century ...

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aaabbb — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 04:30:35 GMT

I don't want all of there features,I just want searching character by character。

When onenote use wds as its search engine，I have to uninstall onenote 2007。

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Gerard Ilott — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 07:26:41 GMT

This sounds great. I support the idea for some basic mind mapping - even a cut-down of the brainstorming feature in Visio would be great. Just to be able to do it within OneNote.

Gerard

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Onenoter — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:23:30 GMT

The great inconvenient in onenote is the lack of "justify text" feature !

Please Microsoft's developpers, make it possible to justify text in OneNote 2010 ! With such a feature, Onenote would be a GREAT programme!

This will make texts easier to read, print and overview !

Thanks !

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Onenoter — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:24:39 GMT

A great inconvenient in Onenote2007 is the lack of "justify text" feature !

Please Microsoft's developpers, make it possible to justify text in OneNote 2010 ! With such a feature, Onenote would be a GREAT programme!

This will make texts easier to read, print and overview !

Thanks !

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Onenoter — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:36:48 GMT

Onenote is the best programme ever made !

Everything could be organized with Onenote ! But it still lack some interesting features:

- improving research feature

- justify text !

- customize blocnote folder's color!

- enable to add new page by "double clicking" on the page's bar!

- ability to roll-up all folders in one!

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Onenoter — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:04:08 GMT

Oh sorry, I have to edit!

Onenote is the best programme ever made by Microsoft!

Everything could be organized with Onenote ! But it still lack some interesting features:

- improving research feature

- justify text !

- customize blocnote folder's color!

- enable to add new page by "double clicking" on the page's bar!

- ability to roll-up all folders in one!

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Maria Bonleu — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:26:53 GMT

Will the canvas navigation be improved? I would like to be able to pan and zoom flexibly (e.g., like in Photoshop, etc.), save views and have multiples simultaneous views of the same document. Essential when working with very large canvasses containing many images.

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W. Blom — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:26:39 GMT

PLEASE!

Make it possible to GROUP objects, so images and notes and annotations stay TOGETHER.

OneNOte is hopeless without it!

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Cindy — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:13:21 GMT

As I use it in college, there's no point for me to convert it to Word for formatting. I just wish we could justify the text for better reading (directly on Onenote), instead of wasting my time converting to Word so I can have readable text.

To format first paragraph line would be wonderfull as well.

Also, is not very nice to convert text do PDF without any formatting (or worse, have convert to Word, then to PDF!).

Kinda looks like you're scared that Word will lose its place on market?? Witch makes no sense at all. Add formating to Onenote will not make it surpass Word ever! Would be like saying that people will stop using Excell if Word can add a table (and it can...).

Faster and easier is better!

PS.: Congratz on this almost perfect software!

I wish it could cook for me to! :)

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Cindy — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:21:56 GMT

Forgot to mention...

Would be nice to have an easier date change system. Sometimes I find some old notes from class and is very dificult to change the year (I have to roll all the months...). So here is another feature that would be fine, month and year indepedent on date pick-up.

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Susan — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:34:23 GMT

If I edit or add to OneNote via 2010, will I be able to open and edit in 2007?

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Luke — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:22:16 GMT

I've just installed the public beta. Great improvements to OneNote indeed! Especially love the new searching.

There are a few key highly requested features missing though. A bit surprised they didn't make it to the release, but I guess there's only so much time:

1) Filled shapes... I mean... I even feel stupid asking about this. Can't be that hard to implement.

2) Improved shapes - link (group) shapes with text, basic shape recognition for tablet PCs. The inability to group notes to shapes is extremely annoying.

3) Basic sorting, filtering, and formulas in the tables - come on it's 21st century!

4) Ability to switch to a visual, mind-mapping-like view

5) OLE automation (VBA) and embedding (e.g. embed and show a group of selected Excel cells) - use your own technology :-)

6) Split view horizontally or vertically

7) Do the linked document notes feature work with Firefox and PDFs? I can't seem to get this to work...

8) View all notes (one after another, 'merging' all notebooks, sections, etc.)

9) Link to objects, e.g. Access database table, Excel named cells etc.

10) Basic templates?

Other than that, fantastic job!

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Steve — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:02:03 GMT

> OneNote now has the Ribbon

ok, then I will be staying with 2007 (unless ther is a way to keep old interface)

I hate that stupid ribbon