Create a new notebook in OneNote - it's that easy!

Those who work with the Microsoft Office 2021 Standard package in Windows 11 Home, for example, have an indispensable tool for many: OneNote! For users, this means: putting an end to the wretched paper economy – and instead creating clean, orderly interactive notes. These notes are collected in notebooks – as many as are needed. And this is how you can create a new notebook in OneNote.

You can do all this with OneNote

Among other things, using OneNote is no problem with Microsoft Office 2021 Home and Business. Here are a few functions that make everyday life easier:

  • Enter notes on your PC
  • Record audio files
  • Capture ideas and sketches directly to your tablet
  • Transfer pictures from your smartphone
  • find notes quickly in the OneNote notebook
  • Move notes around the page easily
  • organise all pages into sections after creating a notebook
  • Collect sections in one or more notebooks
  • switch devices directly, keeping notes 1:1
  • Share personal notebooks with others who can then work on them simultaneously

OneNotecreate new notebook with current account

Notes, doodles, voice recordings – OneNote, for example, in the Microsoft Office 365 Home package under Windows 11 Pro and Windows 11 Pro N is the perfect way to organise everything quickly, neatly and in order. It is not infrequently advisable to create more than one OneNote notebook. For example, if you want to keep records for private purposes separate from those for your club or job. This is what you have to do to create a new notebook in OneNote when you use your own Microsoft account:

  • Show notebooks button
  • Click + Notebook at the bottom of the displayed area
  • Enter a name for the new notebook and select Create notebook .

Create your own notebook with another account

All notes made with OneNote, for example in Microsoft 365 Family in the Windows 11 Education system, can also be kept in separate accounts. This can be the case, for example, if you have set up a notebook for the family and now want to create a separate notebook for yourself and your colleagues. This also works without any problems and works like this:

  • First, again on any page, select the Show Notebooks button.
  • At the top of the displayed area you will now see the current account name
  • After clicking in the Accounts window, next select the option + Add account.
  • After the corresponding prompt, log in with the account data.
  • At the bottom of the drop-down menu that now appears, click on + Notebook .
  • Now enter a name in the New Notebook window under which you want to create your own notebook.
  • Under Account , select the account you want to use with the option „Create new OneNote notebook“.
  • Now just click on Create notebook

OneNote – create a new notebook and then share it

If, for example, you have created a new OneNote notebook in the Microsoft 365 Business Premium package under Windows 11 Enterprise or Windows 11 Pro for Workstation, you may also want others – perhaps employees and colleagues – to have access to it and be able to work on it. In this case, you either have to share the entire notebook or only individual pages. This is how you make your entire notebook available:

  • In OneNote, open the notebook you want to share
  • In the upper right corner click on Share
  • Select the option Share this note book in the drop-down menu of the task area.
  • Under Send email invitation , type in the email addresses with which the selected notebook is to be shared.
  • In the new drop-down menu, select either Can edit forfull access including editing options or Can show if the notebook should not be editable.
  • Confirm by clicking on Share. Share individual pages:
    • In the notebook, open the page to be shared.
    • Click on Share in the upper right corner.
    • Select this page from the drop-down menu in the Sharearea.

    Click on Create , which will create a web link to share with others.

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