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Download more free OneNote calendars for 2009 (and 2010)

Michael C. Oldenburg — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 20:00:00 GMT

Back in January of this year, I provided shortcuts to the newest calendar templates for your OneNote 2007 notebooks. Since then, the Templates team at Office Online has been busy creating more free templates for you to download — including a full spectrum of customizable 2009 calendars and even a couple of early designs for next year. Check out this blog post for direct links to these free downloads....(read more)

Download the new “Green Living Ideas” notebook for OneNote

Michael C. Oldenburg — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 02:00:00 GMT

In celebration of Earth Day on April 22, I’ve put together a new “Green Living Ideas” notebook that you can download for free. Use it to list, organize, and keep track of a variety of “green living” ideas, options, and opportunities. This notebook contains five suggested sections, all of which you can customize by changing and deleting anything that doesn’t apply to your personal situation or preference and adding items as necessary. The result is a custom Green Living Ideas notebook that you can use and share with your family, friends, and co-workers — even the ones that don’t yet have OneNote. Read my full blog post for shortcuts to training and video demos that make notebook customization, note tags, and Web research with screen clippings a cinch — plus get your hands on a free PowerPoint deck that contains a OneNote 2007 training presentation you can use to persuade your office co-workers to go green with OneNote!...(read more)

Lost your job? Let OneNote and Office help!

Michael C. Oldenburg — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 12:00:00 GMT

My own experience with unemployment happened at a time when jobs in every industry were plentiful and when you would get an actual phone call or a polite letter informing you of the fate of your application. Those days are pretty much over. If you don’t sharpen the tools in your arsenal to keep up with the times, you may lose out. With so many people losing their jobs recently, the Office Online team has launched a brand-new Career Center to help Microsoft Office users with every step of a career or job search. We’ve even partnered with the experts over at Monster.com to make the whole process a snap. Also available is the new OneNote job application tracker. This free, template-based tool can be added to any section in your OneNote notebook to let you keep track of your applications, resume versions, contacts, follow-ups, and more. Read my full blog post to check it all out! ...(read more)

Download free 2009 calendar templates (or make your own!)

Michael C. Oldenburg — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:00:00 GMT

Happy New Year, everyone!

As any seasoned user of OneNote 2007 will tell you, the beauty of OneNote is the ability to keep everything together in one place. Calendars are no exception, whether you keep them with you for quick lookups or you link dates and events to specific pages in your notebook.

The Office Online Templates team has been hard at work to make the latest OneNote calendar templates for 2009 available, the first few of which you can now download for free:

2009 full-year calendar
2009 monthly calendar
2009 daily calendar (January)
2009 daily calendar (February)
2009 daily calendar (March)
2009 daily calendar (April)
2009 daily calendar (May)
2009 daily calendar (June)
View all available OneNote templates (by category)
The remaining months for the daily calendars will be posted soon.
Check the full templates catalog each month to see what’s new!

Pre-designed page templates such as these calendars can save you lots of time, but remember that you're not forced to use any templates exactly as they are. If a particular template doesn't quite suit your needs, download it as a starting point, and then change the colors, fonts, and any other formatting to match your preferences. You can then save your changes as a new template and apply it to new pages in your notebook. You can even share your designs with other people.

To learn how to do this, watch our new video:

Watch now: Take the work out of note-taking with OneNote templates!

Aside from single page OneNote templates, you can also create section templates (a template of a section containing one or more pages) and notebook templates (a template of a notebook containing one or more sections) in OneNote. To do this, click the Save As command when you're all done with your design work, and then choose the “OneNote Single File Package (*.onepkg)” option as the file type.

Be sure to select the appropriate Page Range before saving the package (choose Current Section to save your selection as a section template or choose Current Notebook to save your selection as a notebook template).

The OneNote package file format lets you distribute selected notes to other OneNote users, but you can also use this feature to install your template creations on multiple computers, or to share your template designs with your friends, family, co-workers, or classmates. All a recipient has to do is double-click the OneNote package file to install the template it contains onto their own computer.

If you've personally created some useful OneNote templates that you'd like to share with other readers, feel free to post a link to your download location as a comment!