OneNote for Windows 10
Quick Start Tutorials
What is OneNote?
OneNote is a digital notebook that automatically saves and syncs your notes as you work.
Type information in your notebook or insert it from other apps and web pages.
Take handwritten notes or draw your ideas.
Use highlighting and tags for easy follow-up.
Share notebooks to collaborate with others.
Access your notebooks from any device.
Create a Notebook in OneNote
Create a Notebook
Start with a single notebook. You can create additional notebooks for different subjects or projects whenever you want.
- Open OneNote for Windows 10.
- Click the Show Notebooks button .
- At the bottom of the list that opens, click the + Notebook button.
- Type a name for the notebook in the Notebook Name box.
- Click Create Notebook.
Open a Notebook
Aside from creating your own notebooks, you can open notebooks that someone else has created and shared.
Click the Show Notebooks button .
In the list that opens, click More Notebooks.
In the More Notebooks window, select any notebook in the list, and then click Open Notebook.
Don’t see the notebook you’re looking for? Click Add Account and then sign in with the account where your notebooks are stored.
Switch Between Open Notebooks
OneNote lets you keep several notebooks open at once and it’s easy to switch between them.
- Click the Show Notebooks button .
In the list of open notebooks, click the notebook you want to work in.
To return to the previous notebook (or any other notebook that you’ve opened before), repeat the preceding steps.
Take Notes in OneNote
Type Notes
Click anywhere on a page and then start typing.
As you type, a note container appears around the text, which lets you resize or move the note on the page.
Keep typing within the same note container, or click elsewhere on the page to create a new note.
Add a Page
In OneNote, you can add new pages to your notebook whenever you want. Each page can be given a title to make searching for information in your notebook easier.
At the bottom of the page list, click the + Page button.
When the blinking cursor appears on the page header, type a title or description for the new page, and then press Enter to start taking notes on it.
Rename a Page
As you edit and change notes over time, the titles of some of your pages might no longer be accurate since you first created them. You can easily rename pages to better summarize their contents.
In the page list, right-click the page title you want to change, and then click Rename Page.
Type the new page title you want, and then press Enter.
Add and Rename a Section
Add a section
In OneNote, you can add new sections to your notebook whenever you want. Sections can be named to better identify the pages they contain and how they relate to a particular subject.
At the bottom of the section list, click the + Section button.
When the New Section placeholder name is highlighted, type a name or description for the new section, and then press Enter.
Each new section you create will automatically contain a blank, untitled page for you to start taking notes on.
Rename a section
As you add and remove pages from your notebook over time, the names of some of your sections might no longer be accurate since you first created them. You can easily rename sections to better summarize the pages they contain.
In the section list, right-click the section name you want to change, and then click Rename Section.
Type the new section name you want, and then press Enter.
Share and Stay Organized in OneNote
Share an Entire Notebook
Your notebooks are private unless you choose to invite other people to view or edit its contents.
Open the notebook that you want to share.
Click Share.
In the Share pane, select This notebook
Under Email invitation, type one or more email addresses in the box at the top, and then click Can Edit or Can View
Click Share to email an invitation
Share a Single Page of Notes
If you don’t want to share your entire notebook with other people, you can share a specific page.
In your notebook, open the page that you want to share.
Click Share.
In the Share pane, select This page
Click Create to create a Web link that you can share with other people.
When the sharing link has been created, click Copy, and then paste the link wherever you want to share it.
Share a Static Copy of a Page
Follow these steps if you want to send a static snapshot of a page of notes or an entire notebook.
In your notebook, open the notebook or page that you want to share.
Click Share.
In the Share pane, choose whether you want to share a snapshot of This page or This notebook.
Click Send a copy.
In the Share menu that opens, select the recipients, or select the app where you want to share
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