Microsoft OneNote in 1-Hour: Everything you need to know.

Explore OneNote’s hierarchy by organizing notebooks for work, private life, or school. Create sections and pages with text, links, images, and tables.

Learn to create notebooks in OneNote, choosing cloud via OneDrive or local storage, name notebooks like school or personal, and optionally invite collaborators.

Organize a OneNote notebook by creating sections for subjects such as accounting, marketing, and English, then add and rename pages and use move or copy to reuse templates.

Learn the basics of OneNote: create and move text containers, resize and format text with the ribbon, and use insert space to manage page layouts.

Create organized lists in OneNote by building a grocery list with sections, headings, and checkboxes, then explore kanban boards with backlog, to-do, doing, and done.

Learn to insert tables in OneNote via the insert tab, adjust rows and columns, and apply table styles. Convert tables to spreadsheets and add headings and test data, like Excel.

Insert PDFs and PowerPoint slides as file printouts in OneNote, copy slides to a page, and annotate with handwritten notes, highlights, and drawings on a tablet.

Explore how to attach files in OneNote, inserting single or multiple documents as static snapshots, not live links, and organizing them into project dashboards for quick reference.

Explore how to insert pictures and videos in OneNote, use screen clipping, from online sources, files, or camera, adjust size, add text layers, and copy text from pictures.

Create and insert links in OneNote by using the link button, choosing internet addresses, files, or internal pages. Customize display text and navigate to linked pages with a click.

Record audio in OneNote using simple controls, then pause, stop, or play as needed. Explore transcription that creates a dialogue with timestamps and an audio link, and note multi-speaker support.

Organize notes by creating notebooks, sections, and pages, then group sections into section groups by quarter to structure January, February, and March meeting notes.

Learn to structure OneNote with sub pages and sub sub pages to create a collapsible hierarchy of notebooks, sections, pages, and section groups, using colors to organize weeks and projects.

Discover how to create and manage quick notes in OneNote using the quick note button, alt+n shortcut, and basic formatting, with notes stored safely and easily accessible.

Protect OneNote sections with passwords to secure private data, understand that passwords cannot be recovered, and manage auto-lock timing, plus change or remove passwords as needed.

Discover how OneNote’s cross-notebook search quickly finds text across notebooks, sections, and pages, including transcripts, printouts, and media, with narrowing options and password-protected sections hidden until unlocked.

Explore OneNote view settings, including section view, full page view, and docked layouts; customize tabs, page color, background, paper size, and window options like two windows and always on top.

Master creating and using templates in Microsoft OneNote, including applying pre-made templates, saving a current page as a template, and setting a default template for new pages in a section.

Structure your data with tags in Microsoft OneNote by creating and applying customizable tags, filtering results, navigating via links across notebooks, including to-do and gift ideas, and summary pages.

Thank you for your time and effort, and please share your feedback. Encourage learners to have fun taking notes in OneNote and to feel confident using it in business settings.