Microsoft OneNote (Desktop App)

About this course

In our fast-paced digital world, the need to capture ideas, meeting notes, and to-do items is ever present. Microsoft's® OneNote® app provides a way for you to efficiently create and collect your notes in an electronic notebook. This course will help you use OneNote notebooks to store a wide variety of content in an organized structure, access the content from anywhere, and also share it with others. Additionally, learning how OneNote and other applications in the Microsoft 365 suite are integrated will increase your productivity. This course is intended for people in a variety of roles and fields who have a basic understanding of Microsoft 365 and want to incorporate digital note taking and note collaboration by using Microsoft OneNote. In this course, you will: navigate and customize the OneNote environment and create your first notebook; add and format various types of notes and note elements, including text, links, and drawing objects; add images, video, audio, Excel spreadsheets, and other types of files to a notebook; organize, categorize, and search notebook content; finalize notebook content by checking spelling, printing copies, and password-protecting notebooks; manage notebooks by exporting content and working with history and backups; and share notebooks using Outlook and collaborate with colleagues using OneDrive. This course requires that you have Microsoft OneNote installed on a Windows PC. The course setup instructions provided in the first module of the course go into more detail about the hardware and software requirements.

Course objectives

• teach users to efficiently manage notes and to-do items
• enhance collaboration through digital tools
• integrate OneNote with other Microsoft 365 applications