A quick guide to using Microsoft OneNote on tablets, online, or on your desktop OneNote is the note-taking-and-sharing application that's part of Microsoft Office. It lets you create notes by hand, as audio, or by clipping items from other electronic formats to create a file that can be indexed and searched.

Learn to:

• Take advantage of note saving and sharing tools
• Create notes from scratch and add electronic files
• Index your notes for easy searching
• Use OneNote on your Windows® 8 tablet

Take note! OneNote lets you organize, access, and share notes on multiple devices

OneNote is much more than a note-taking app for students. The 2013 incarnation is a feature-rich application with online and tablet versions that enable sharing and collaboration. And this book shows you how to take full advantage of everything it offers — text recognition, the ability to include data from other Office apps, and more!

• Meet OneNote — navigate the interface, create a Microsoft account, and set up a notebook
• Note how it's done — make your first notes, organize them, and choose whether to sync your notes manually
• Tag it — tag notes for followup, mark ideas, identify items to be e-mailed, and establish priority
• See what you mean — add images, video, and audio to notes
• Write on — hand-write a note on your tablet's screen and let OneNote convert it to text
• Notes in the sky — store notes securely on SkyDrive® and access them from any web- enabled device
• A team effort — share notes and collaborate via OneNote Web App

Open the book and find:

• Easy ways to format notes
• Tips on keeping your notes secure
• Why you need a Microsoft account
• All about OneNote for Windows 8
• How to edit notes on Android and iOS devices
• Ways to use OneNote every day
• What you need to know about permissions
• Ten terrific OneNote tips