Subpages help keep related pages grouped together, and creates a hierarchy within a single tab. If you need an additional level of organisation, you can make one or more pages a sub-page of another. Each page may have just a few lines of text, or paragraphs full of text, images, drawing and more. There are all sorts of different use scenarios, for example, a tab for meeting notes, a tab for hearing notes, a tab for case law, a tab for prosecution material and a tab for defence material. Each tab can contain a few (or many) individual pages. Within each notebook you create tabs to organise major subjects and categories.

You can create one or more notebooks: for instance, I have a general notebook, a notebook for each of my cases and I created this notebook specifically for this training session.

What makes OneNote better than simply having a folder full of word documents is its clean and intuitive organisation. Organising your OneNote notebooks, sections and pages If you do install OneNote 2016, you will likely see two OneNote shortcuts in your Windows 10 start menu. My recommendation is that you use OneNote 2016 as your default notetaking tool. In any event, you can open the same notebook is Onenote 2016 or Onenote universal, so there is no risk from using OneNote 2016 for the time being. In fact, OneNote 2016 was previously excluded from Office 2019 installations (OneNote universal is installed as part of all Windows 10 installations) but as of March 2020, it is once again installed alongside the Word, PowerPoint, and Excel desktop apps. It still isn't there yet, so I use OneNote 2016 on a day-to-day basis.Īlthough Microsoft has announced that it will ultimately stop updating and supporting OneNote 2016, that is some way off. Over the years, Microsoft has added more and more functionality to OneNote Universal, working to catch it up to the desktop edition. The Universal version of OneNote did less than its full desktop counterpart, but has a cleaner, sharper look and feel to it. Later, Microsoft released a leaner version of OneNote (then called OneNote Universal), which was optimised for mobile devices and designed to look and work the same on any device. OneNote was originally released as a traditional desktop application and was called OneNote 2013, then OneNote 2016.

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