While OneNote is very flexible, especially with pages, there’s an overall structure from Notebooks to Sections, Pages, sub-pages and containers. NOTEBOOKS OneNote is based on a series of notebooks. You can make notebooks for any topic you like. One for personal or diverse notes. Others for work, a hobby, subjects
Since 2003, OneNote has been available to many Office users as part of their Office suites or subscriptions. It features free-form note-taking and multiuser collaboration, plus it’s fairly straightforward and user-friendly, so why not give it a try? What is OneNote? OneNote is a place to keep notes of all
Pages can contain all manner of things, it’s as simple as ‘click on the page and type’. A container is automatically created for you. Of course, you can copy things from elsewhere (web pages, documents etc) and paste into OneNote. The real power of OneNote is to include lots of
Teams makes it simple to share files and collaborate. If you are working with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or Visio files, your coworkers may read, edit, and collaborate on them directly from Teams. Co-edit files Each team member has access to files that have been uploaded and shared on Teams. You
If you’re not willing or able to spend the money, there are several ways you can access Microsoft Office for free. These tips are just good for saving money. Some are useful standby’s to keep in mind if you can’t use the full Microsoft 365 desktop programs. Maybe your computer
Simple, easy and free ways to convert audio files like WAV, FLAC and many others into a format that PowerPoint or your smartphone prefers such as MP3, MP4 or AAC. The BBC Sound effect downloads are in WAV format. That’s a good, high-fidelity and uncompressed format that works in PowerPoint
How to stop your Office Watch newsletters going to the Junk E-mail folder. To make sure your Office Watch newsletters don’t end up in your Junk Email folder you need to set us up as a ‘Safe Sender’. Here’s how to do that in Outlook. Keep in mind that Outlook
The hardware requirements for Windows 11 are surprisingly high especially the increased security requirements. Some brand-new computers, even Microsoft’s own high-priced Surface computers bought today might not be compatible with Windows 11. See all the Office-Watch.com coverage of Windows 11 Unlike previous major Windows releases, you can’t assume that a
The new Widgets pane in Windows 11 has three widgets for Outlook and Microsoft 365 users. Calendar, To Do and one only for Enterprise users. Widgets are a pop-up window of configurable small panes. The selection of widgets is quite limited, at least for now; Weather, Traffic, Stocks, Sports, Entertainment
If you think font selection is hard, spare a thought for lawyers who have to deal with different official rules, recommendations and accepted practice for court submissions. Jason Steed at JDSupra sets out the complications for US lawyers. The D.C Circuit court started ‘discouraging’ use of Garamond font but no
Now you know how to insert checkboxes in Excel, here are some ways to use check box cells in Excel. Counting the checked/unchecked boxes, calculate percentage checked and even showing a separate list of items based on their checked status. A cell with a check box has two values: TRUE – checked FALSE – UNchecked
Microsoft has updated the Office programs to support the OpenDocument format (ODF) to version 1.3. Most people use Office Open XML format (OOXML) which is the official name for what is usually called the ‘new’ Microsoft Office formats, .docx .xlsx .pptx etc. OpenDocument files .odt .ods .odp etc are also
OneDrive on Mac computers won’t be supported on older macOS from mid-September 2021. The latest macOS and last two releases will continue work and be supported. Microsoft’s general policy for supporting Office on Mac computers is to support the most recent version of macOS and the two versions before that.
The Office for Android apps won’t be supported on Chromebook devices from mid-September. That admission was finally dragged out of a reluctant Microsoft. That leaves Chromebook users with Office on the web and Outlook.com in the Chrome browser. See Two ways to use Microsoft Office on a Chromebook Microsoft reluctantly
Here’s how to collaborate on a ‘live’ file (Word document, Excel workbook, PowerPoint deck or OneNote notebook) saved on OneDrive or other cloud service. It’s part of our series on accept a sharing request and collaborating on a ‘live’ document saved online. Microsoft spends a lot of energy getting people
Microsoft spends a lot of time explaining how to share a file (Word document, Excel workbook, PowerPoint deck or OneNote notebook) but very little on how to accept a sharing request and collaborate on a ‘live’ document saved online. Live or real-time collaboration lets two or more people work on
Chromebooks are low cost alternatives to regular laptops with great battery life. They can run Microsoft Office in different ways – two and a half by our count. There were two more, but Microsoft dropped support for them in September 2021. Quick Chromebook buying tips Web apps Chromebooks come with
It’s easy to send photos via email, with several options available for doing this, but there are some things to keep in mind when doing it. We’ll cover the basics and also some of the issues you need to keep in mind. In Office Watch newsletters we try to go
Save-the-date cards, invitations, place cards and other wedding paperwork can be made in Word. Reduce stress and expenses, by creating your invites digitally through Word. Creating your own invites is a great approach, adding a personal and unique touch to proceedings. Usually, you’ll find Wedding Invites are in A5 size. Simply open your new document, go to the Layout
Word 365’s Track Changes is getting a more refined option to remember just changes you make to a document, no-one else. Normally, turning ‘Track Changes’ on, means anyone working on the document has their edits tracked. On the Review tab, Tracking and under ‘Track Changes’ there’s a new choice ‘Just
A security company has revealed a dangerous setting in Microsoft PowerApps. Microsoft has fallen back on one of their oldest tricks, blaming the customer. There’s a similar ‘way too open’ option in Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Power Apps provide ways for organization to make simple apps to access online data
Sometimes Outlook for Windows can download a lot of data that it doesn’t mean to. When we say ‘a lot’ we mean many gigabytes, sometimes far more than the size of the mailbox, which makes no sense at all. Here’s some options for fixing the problem with tips for using
Excel’s powerful data import feature is finally getting some control over the automatic conversion of incoming info into Excel data types. When Excel 365’s Get and Transform feature imports data, it looks at each field (column) and tries to work out what type of data it is. That’s for unstructured
A detailed look at a common email phishing attack, what to look for and how to avoid it. The most common form of phishing (password stealing) attack fakes a Microsoft account login. Most people have a Microsoft account for their work, home or both so it’s a large slow-moving target