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By default, OneNote 2010 places navigation bar at the left side, however, it lets user change the navigation bar position, if you want to keep more space on left side, you can easily move the navigator to right side of the window. Read More

If you are using rule lines in notebook sections then you might be interested in using selected rule line in all pages of notebook. To let OneNote 2010 create rule line every time on a new page, on File menu, click Options. OneNote Options dialog will appear, from left side bar, click Display and from main window, enable Create all new pages with rule lines option. Now click OK. Read More

If you are a heavy MS OneNote user, you must be annoyed by the fact that you cannot view sub-pages of a sub-page you created in your notebook. The subpage is basically a child page of a main page, which allows you to easily take extra notes about the content written on the main page. This subpages feature has also been tweaked to enhance the overall usefulness of parent and child pages. The subpages are now indented along the right side of the bar, letting you easily differentiate subpages from parent pages. If you're using OneNote 2010, then you must have noticed that subpages tabs' colors are also modified. This change in color can help you quickly check out all the subpages of the parent pages in the list. OneNote 2010 also supports adding 3rd level subpage to your page. Its indentation is slightly greater than its parent subpage, and you can quickly identify all 3rd level subpages by colors, as it uses a lighter color gradient. Read More

Like in other Office 2010 apps, OneNote 2010 offers the very same way to change the default font settings, including font size, font color, and family. Let’s see how to change default font settings. Read More

If you're an avid OneNote 2010 user, then you must've noticed that it automatically starts up as soon as you log on Windows. Just like other startup programs, it lets you disable this behavior, and manually launch OneNote from Start search. If you choose to run OneNote 2010 at startup, it adds OneNote icon to system tray, letting you quickly launch OneNote from OneNote Icon Defaults menu. However, OneNote 2012 also allows you to use hotkey combination to quickly bring up its main interface and create or edit existing notes. This hotkey combination works only if you haven't disabled launching of OneNote at startup. When Windows finishes launching all startup items, just use the Windows+Shift+N hotkey combination to bring up last edited Notebook section. Read More

OneNote 2010 lets you easily search through every included element. Since it indexes all the element in notebooks section, you can find any type of element including text, images, audio recordings, videos, embedded files, etc. Read More

OneNote 2010 provides user with a long list of video profiles which can you choose according to your requirements. Alongside, audio options can also be tweaked to get the required sound quality. Read More

By default, OneNote 2010 starts with Windows logon, however, if you don't want to let it run each time you log into Windows, you can easily disable it to remove its icon from taskbar. OneNote 2010 offers a simple way to remove only the taskbar icon instead. Read More

OneNote 2010 offers an easy way to merge two notebook sections, you don’t have to copy content from one notebook to another, it shows all the notebooks letting user pick a notebook to merge content with. To instantly merge notebooks, open the notebook you need to merge and right-click on its tab and select Merge into Another Section. Read More

OneNote 2010 lets user create a hierarchy of notebooks sections, so they can easily organize them in tree-like structure. A Subpage refers to the content which falls under the one big category, you can create as many subpages as you want for one notebook section. Read More

Just like other note taking applications, OneNote supports multiple View modes that let you easily adjust the content on the screen. If you frequently switch between large and small display monitors, then you may require changing the view modes to get the full preview of the notebook page. Consider a situation where you need to switch between two display monitors with different resolutions; when you switch from high resolution display monitor to smaller one, then you need to adjust the OneNote notebook's view mode to adjust the content containers. OneNote offers two quick zoom levels including 75 % and 100%, along with Zoom Level drop-down menu to manually change the zoom level of the current notebook's page. However, if you don't want to manually set the zoom level via Zoom drop-drop menu, you can use the Ctrl+Mouse Wheel to zoom in/out the page.  Before you change the zoom level using the mouse, just click anywhere on the notebook page, and then move the mouse wheel in an upward direction while holding the Ctrl key on the keyboard to zoom-out the page. Similarly, you can move the mouse wheel in a downward direction while holding Ctrl key to zoom-in the page content. Read More

By default, OneNote 2010 creates back up of all the notebooks after one day. However, you can change the backup schedule to let it create backup after defined amount of time. To  start out, on File menu, click Options. This will bring up OneNote Options dialog. From left sidebar click Save & Backup, and from main window, under Backup section, you can change backup time options. Read More

OneNote 2010 organizes each notebook section into groups, which helps user in  managing notebooks and eventually notebooks sections. In this post we will look at creating a new group for more notebook sections. Read More

OneNote 2010 offers incremental backup feature which automatically creates backup of only updated notebooks. It not only allow users to schedule backup plan but let them allocate number of copies to be made at scheduled intervals. Read More