Capturing Notes Easily

 The whole idea behind OneNote is that you need one central location where you can gather all your notes—in whatever form—so that you can organize, share, and use them easily . You might insert pieces of interviews, maps to locations, clips of video, photos of products, meet-ing notes, articles, and anything else that provides you with the information you need for the projects you’re creating .

Today everyone suffers from information overload in one way or another, and we all find ways to do our best to manage the data that comes our way . Developing a smart, fast meth-od of organizing your notes helps you be more efficient and bring an even greater range of resources to your work . Office 2010 OneNote includes several features that make it simple to create and work with the information you capture in your notebooks .

Using OneNote as You Work

Chances are that as you work on a specific document, worksheet, or presentation—or even as you’re composing an e-mail message or surfing the Web—ideas are occurring to you that relate to the task at hand . If you’re editing a report, for example, you might think of a site you visited last week that had some interesting statistics about the topic you’re reviewing . Using OneNote, you can make a note to yourself to look up that site when you’re finished  editing . And you can make the note right alongside the work you’re doing in Word .

The Dock To Desktop feature in OneNote lets you easily position OneNote in a reduced-size window alongside other open applications . This means you can take notes—or refer to notes you’ve already taken—while you’re working on a document, worksheet, or presentation, To dock OneNote to your desktop, click the Dock To Desktop tool in the Quick Access Toolbar in  the top left corner of the screen . The OneNote window shrinks to the current note page only.

         
When you’re ready to expand the download Microsoft Office 2010 OneNote window to full screen view, click the Full Screen icon in the Quick Access Toolbar . To return the Navigation Bar, section tabs, and page tabs to the display, click the View tab and click Normal View .