Opening Class Notes in OneNote

A common misunderstanding with OneNote is the concept of adding PDFs and PowerPoint files to the program. When I got my tablet, I thought to myself, "why can't I open PowerPoint files in OneNote--I mean, they are made by the same company?" I have learned to deal with the way ON handles these files. To get PowerPoints and PDFs into ON is simple.

For 2003:

• Open the file that you wish to put into OneNote

• Click “file”

• Point to “print”

• Then, find the “send to OneNote” printer

• Once you selected that printer, click on “options” (It may be called “advanced”—I can’t remember).

• Click on the second tab—here, you can change the location that the file is printed to. You can also specify if you want each page in the handout to be a separate ON page, or if you want the handout to be one page in ON.

• Click “ok”

• Then click “print”

The file should now be imported. Note flag searching in 2003 doesn’t work if you make the entire PDF print to a single ON page. You should choose the option to have ON print each page as a subpage of the first.

For 2007:

• From ON 2007, click on “insert”

• Point to and click on “file as printout”

• Find the file that you want to print.

• Then, select “OK”.

The file will now print itself into the current section as an appendage of the page you were working on. You can change this by doing the following:

• Click on “tools”

• Click on “options”

• Click on “filing rules”

Here you can change the default settings for importing files.

Honestly, I like the old OneNote print driver, but that one didn’t allow searching of your notes. The new Beta2TR that is to come out in a couple of weeks will resolve these problems.

erik

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