OneNote 2016 for Windows - In-depth, comprehensive training

Vonne and Wes kick off the OneNote 2016 for Windows series with an introduction to the application. They discuss the difference between OneNote 2016 for Windows and OneNote for Windows 10 as well as OneDrive for Business vs OneDrive for Windows 10.  They also explain the "rumor" that OneNote 2016 is being cancelled by Microsoft.

OneNote 2016 is an easy to use application, but it is important to understand the basics and default settings. Vonne and Wes discuss and demonstrate what happens when you first install OneNote 2016, when you first launch OneNote 2016, and overall default settings for notebook creation. 

While it sounds simple, opening and closing files in OneNote 2016 is an important first step to using the application. Here, Vonne and Wes discuss opening and closing local and cloud stored notebooks, notebook properties and settings, and common warnings and issues with notebook syncing.

In this episode, Wes and Vonne explore the OneNote 2016 environment and how to navigate in a notebook. They cover notebook structure, page views and zoom, and customization options.

Vonne and Wes discuss how to create a new notebook in OneNote 2016. They demonstrate the steps to create a notebook that is stored locally as well as in OneDrive. They also show how to create and manage sections and section groups.

In this episode, Wes and Vonne show how to create new pages in a notebook. They discuss adding and formatting page titles, formatting pages, managing pages, and page templates.

Vonne and Aubri take a detailed look at OneNote Options. They explain and demonstrate some noteworthy options for display, screen clippings, send to OneNote, drawing, and a variety of other items in OneNote 2016.

Aubri and Vonne start adding content to pages, specifically text and tables. They show how to add, select, move, resize, format, and manage text and table containers on a page.

In this episode, Vonne and Aubri show how to add images to notebook pages. They discuss the limited formatting options available (as compared to other Office products), searchable text in images, and setting image as background.

In this episode, Vonne and Aubri show how to add images to notebook pages. They discuss the limited formatting options available (as compared to other Office products), searchable text in images, and setting image as background.

A picture is worth a thousand words. Aubri and Vonne demonstrate how to use drawing tools and shapes. They cover pen modes, format drawn content, ink to text, and ink to math.

Quick Notes are just like those little notepads and scratch pieces of paper you use to jot down something. In this episode, Vonne and Aubri discuss what are Quick Notes and how to manage them to your advantage.

When taking notes or researching, it's always great to remember what file or web page you were looking at when you wrote something down.  Linked Notes does just that in OneNote. Vonne and Aubri demonstrate this neat feature in this episode.

In this episode, Vonne and Aubri discuss links in OneNote 2016. They demonstrate how to create links from the Copy Link to and the Link options in the right click menu.

In this episode, Aubri and Vonne demonstrate how to attach files and insert file printouts to pages. They emphasize these attachments are not links to original source files, but embedded copies.

Sometimes it is easier to record a quick video than write out a long note. In this episode, Vonne and Aubri demonstrate how to insert audio and video in a OneNote notebook.

Tagging content is a great way to stay organized. In this episode, Vonne and Aubri show how to use tags, search for tags, create custom tags, and generate a summary page of tagged elements.

In this episode, Vonne and Aubri demonstrate OneNote's powerful search capabilities. They search for text and phrases in pages, images, handwriting, and even video and audio clips.

Vonne and Aubri discuss ways to organize and manage content in a notebook. They review topics from other episodes such as creating section groups, moving and copying pages and sections, merging sections, creating subpages, marking content as read and unread, and the notebook recycle bin.

Backup, backup, backup. In this episode, Vonne and Aubri look at History tab and review the different commands. They demonstrate how to use version control on pages, find recent edits, find by author for shared notebooks, mark pages as read and unread, and the notebook recycle bin. They also discuss OneNote's backup system and how to make a backup by exporting.

Aubri and Vonne discuss items on the Review tab and the importance of proofing notebook content. They demonstrate how to spell check, look up content with the research resources, find synonyms with the thesaurus, and translate content into different languages. They also review basic concepts of accessibility and the accessibility checker. 

In this episode, Vonne and Aubri review printing and exporting options.  They show how to export pages, sections, and notebooks into different file formats such as  OneNote section files (.one), Word documents (.docx), PDFs (.pdf) and OneNote package files (.onepkg).

Sharing is caring. In this episode, Vonne and Aubri show how to share notebooks with others. They show how to share a notebook as an owner as well as how accept and access a share request as a recipient. They also show how to manage permissions to notebook files in OneDrive.

Vonne and Aubri demonstrate how OneNote and Outlook work together to keep user's organized and on task.  In this episode, they show how to email notebook pages as well as how to send emails to a notebook. They also show how to sync tasks in Outlook with OneNote.

Aubri and Vonne continue to show OneNote and Outlook working together. They cover how to work with notebooks in conjunction with meetings in Outlook. They show how to take personal notes for a meeting as well as taking notes with meeting participants in a shared notebook.

In this episode, Vonne and Aubri talk about how OneNote notebooks work with Skype for Business. They show how to take notes in an online meeting or conversation as well as sharing notes with other participants. They also show some actions that can make it a little more confusing and ow to avoid them.

In this episode, Aubri and Vonne show how to password protect sections in a notebook.

Aubri and Vonne explore and review OneNote on different platforms.  In this episode, they show OneNote for Windows 10 and explore some of the differences between it and OneNote 2016.

In this episode, Vonne and Aubri show OneNote Online. They review the differences between using OneNote in a browser vs the desktop version.

In this episode, Vonne and Aubri demonstrate using OneNote for Mac.

Vonne and Aubri bring out the iPad Pro and the iPencil to show how to use OneNote for iPad.

Aubri and Vonne explore how to use OneNote on an iPhone.

In this episode, Aubri and Vonne show how OneNote works on an Android phone.