Teaching with Tablets

5 Outline your notes. OneNote 2007 can automatically create outlines using either numbered or bulleted lists. Indent major items to the left and minor items to the right. Select the notes, and then click the Bullets or Numbers icon for the required outline type.

To send a Web page to OneNote 2007 from Internet Explorer, select "Tools" then "Send to OneNote." To place a screen clipping onto a page, right-click on the OneNote 2007 Side Note icon in the system tray and select "Create Screen Clipping." Drag a box around the area of the screen that you wish to capture by clicking and holding the left mouse button, and then release when finished.

Organize your research information.

You can hyperlink both within OneNote 2007 and to external files. For external files, select "Insert," then "Hyperlink," and then select a file and give it a name. For internal information, select notes, right-click and select "Copy Hyperlink to this paragraph," then paste the hyperlink where desired.

To view a list of useful keyboard shortcuts that make accessing OneNote tools, commands, and dialog boxes faster and easier, click Keyboard Shortcuts on the Help menu.

If copying and pasting text and graphics from a Web page to a page in your notebook doesn't seem to properly retain the formatting, try capturing the information in a screen clipping instead. On the Insert menu, click Screen Clipping, and then drag the pointer to create a rectangular selection around the content on your screen that you want to capture.

To see when a block of notes was last written or updated, right-click the paragraph handle preceding the text in any note container. The last two items on the shortcut menu will show you when the text was created or updated, and by whom.

To move an item, such as a block of text or a picture, so that it appears over or under another item on the page, hold down ALT while moving the item.

You can easily modify the templates that are included with OneNote and create a custom design of your own. Start by applying an existing template to a new, blank page, and then add or change anything you like. On the Format menu, click Templates. In the Templates task pane, click Save current page as a template.

Before sharing your notes, check for spelling mistakes. Press F7 to open the Spelling task pane and start the spell check. If the task pane is already open, click Start Spell Check.

you can save notes as a Web page. On the File menu, click Publish Pages. In the Publish dialog box, click Single File Web Page (Publish a copy) (*.mht) in the Save as type list. After the file has been created, you can send it in e-mail, copy it to a shared location on a network, or publish it on a Web site.

Use different colors to identify participants in a live sharing session. Ask each person to use a specific pen or font color when he or she adds notes to the shared page. For example, you can type your notes in blue text and use a blue pen to mark up a diagram. Another person can use green text or a green pen. Add a list of names and corresponding text colors at the top of the shared note page so that session participants know who is typing or writing.

Use OneNote to help you study for an exam. If you take notes by using an outline format, collapse your outline down to the highest level of information, and then quiz yourself about the details hidden in the collapsed levels. To work with outlines, turn on the Outlining toolbar. On the View menu, point to Toolbars, and then click Outlining.

To quickly open a side note, even when OneNote isn't open, press the Windows logo key+N.

To help you line up items on your pages (for example, note containers or pictures), OneNote automatically snaps the items to an invisible grid as you move and reposition them. To temporarily disable the grid, hold down ALT while you move an item on the current page. To permanently turn the page grid option on or off, click the Snap To Grid command on the Edit menu.

If you use OneNote on a portable computer or a Tablet PC, you can optimize the amount of battery power that OneNote consumes. On the Tools menu, click Options. In the Options dialog box, click Other, and then select the Optimize for the following battery life option that you want.