OneNote 2013 Essential Training

Microsoft OneNote (formerly called Microsoft Office OneNote) is a computer program for free-form information gathering and multi-user collaboration. It gathers users' notes (handwritten or typed), drawings, screen clippings and audio commentaries. Notes can be shared with other OneNote users over the Internet or a network. OneNote is available for Windows, iOS, Android, Windows Phone, and Symbian. A web-based version of OneNote is provided as part of SkyDrive or Office Web Apps and enables users to edit notes via a web browser.

In OneNote, users can enter typed text via keyboard, create tables, and insert pictures. However, unlike a word processor, users can write anywhere on a virtually unbounded document window by just clicking there. Also, users do not need to explicitly save—OneNote saves data automatically as the user works.

OneNote saves information in pages organized into sections within notebooks. The interface is an electronic version of a tabbed ring binder, in which the user can directly make notes and gather material from other applications. OneNote notebooks collect, organize, and share possibly unpolished materials—as compared to word processors and wikis, which usually target publishing in some way. The difference shows in certain OneNote features and characteristics:

Pages can be arbitrarily large.
Bitmap images can be inserted without quality loss.
There is no enforced uniform page layout or structure.

Pages can be moved inside the binder and annotated with a stylus or word processing or drawing tools. Users may add embedded multimedia recordings and web links.

While OneNote is commonly used on laptops or desktop PCs, additional features support pen-enabled tablet computers, in environments where pen, audio, or video notes are more appropriate than an intensive use of keyboard.

OneNote integrates search features and indexing into a free-form graphics and audio repository. It can search images (e.g., screen captures, embedded document scans, photographs) for embedded text content. It also searches "electronic ink" annotations as text, and phonetically search audio recordings on a text key. It can replay audio concurrently with notes taken during the recording.

Its multi-user capability allows offline paragraph-level editing with later synchronization and merging. This facilitates collaboration among workgroups members who are not always online. More than one person can work on the same page at the same time—using OneNote as a shared whiteboard environment.
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Microsoft OneNote 2013
Developer(s) Microsoft
Initial release 19 November 2003; 9 years ago
Stable release 2013 (15.0.4420.1017) / October 2, 2012; 9 months ago
Operating system Microsoft Windows, Android,[1] iOS,[2][3] Symbian, Windows Mobile, Windows Phone
Type Notetaking software
License

Proprietary software

Desktop: Shareware
Mobile: Freeware[1][2][3]

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