OneNote – Course Package (Overview)
OneNote is the note-taking system from Microsoft Office. Many users of the Office suite have not yet discovered it or have only fundamentally “experimented” with its functions – yet it is a very powerful application that makes many of the advantages of paper notes digitally available, is easy to use, can full-text search all content, and perfectly complements Outlook with a “strategic” planning level above appointments/tasks, as well as detailed notes (minutes, research, ideas, etc.). Discover and utilize the benefits of digital notes with OneNote – keeping the essentials always in view, always accessible, and full-text searchable – as an optimal complement to Outlook for your daily work, planning, and ideas!
In this course package, Holger Wöltje will show you the advantages OneNote offers, how the structure of the note system is built, how to use it correctly, how to create good page titles, and how to instantly find project and event preparations using the search function, for example, and see the current status when your boss calls spontaneously and asks for an update. You will discover how to create idea collections, structure planning steps, and link follow-up tasks with Outlook – whether for planning an extensive publication, the next marketing campaign, improvements for the development of your next product version, or the implementation of follow-up tasks from a regular meeting.
You will learn how to use templates (e.g., for project meetings), keep track of recent changes, visually highlight important content with categories and list it across pages, create handwritten notes, and also full-text search them. Furthermore, you will learn how to create links to notes and between notes, and how to transfer an email to a OneNote page with just a few clicks (e.g., to note questions and follow-up tasks, to add answers and further tasks during a follow-up call, and to keep track of the completion status at all times).
OneNote Basics Course
If you have not yet used OneNote or have only fundamentally “experimented” with it, this course will show you the advantages and the most important functions of the program in under 90 minutes. Among other things, you will learn how to:
- create and edit your notes, understand the structure (composition & advantages of OneNote notes),
- create idea collections and extensive research,
- mark tasks in OneNote and link them with Outlook,
- transfer an email to a OneNote page with just a few clicks (e.g., to note questions and follow-up tasks, add answers during a phone call, and keep track of the completion status) and
- use the full-text search to find all content at any time and open it directly with one click.
OneNote Advanced Course I
Building on the basic course, this first advanced course will show you how to further optimize and structure your notes to always keep track of the essentials and the current completion status. You will learn, among other things:
- how to quickly and easily create checklists,
- what distinguishes the task category of linked Outlook tasks,
- how to use hyperlinks between notes and refer to notes from external programs (e.g., from an Outlook appointment to the results of two other meetings),
- how to create outlines, format them, and easily reorder them (e.g., create an idea collection and put it into an implementation sequence),
- how to work with categories in OneNote, e.g., to quickly record the status (seen? approved? completed?) and compile it across pages with the category search (e.g., all open questions from all project meetings).
OneNote Advanced Course II
Building on the first two courses, this second advanced course will show you how to further optimize your notes and use OneNote alongside other applications. Among other things, you will discover how to:
- view an older version with page versions (e.g., if you or your vacation replacement accidentally deleted/overwrote too much last month),
- open OneNote multiple times (e.g., detailed research next to the current minutes),
- use handwriting in OneNote, full-text search it, and insert additional space downwards in the middle of the page (to add something),
- work with page templates (e.g., checklists for vacation handovers and event planning) and
- quickly keep track of all changes from the last few days.
