Create a new notebook in OneNote - here's how!

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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OneNote: Show guides - how to do it!

OneNote: Show guides - it's that easy!

In this article we will show you how to show guides in OneNote. Handwritten notes, memos and letters are becoming more and more popular. But what is becoming really oldschool: handwritten notes on real paper! It’s a good thing that OneNote is also available under Windows 11 Home, for example, in Microsoft Office 2021 Standard. With a suitable tablet and a digital pen, everything can be written as if you had a sheet of paper in front of you. To prevent the individual sentences from criss-crossing, you can fade in the appropriate guide lines.

This is how handwritten notes work with OneNote

Once you get used to making handwritten notes or even writing letters with OneNote, for example in the Microsoft Office 2021 Home and Business package under Windows 11 Pro or Windows 11 Pro N, the whole thing quickly feels like it used to with the sheet of paper on the desk. Above all, this digital version of writing without a keyboard offers plenty of features and advantages that can never be achieved with a simple pen or crayon. What you need

a suitable tablet PC or a desktop PC with graphics tablet
a digital pen
Software such as Microsoft Office 365 Home with the Windows 11 Educationoperating system

Once you have all this together, you can actually start writing. However, it is recommended – especially for the first attempts – to set up some guides.

Displaying guides

With the OneNote programme, you can not only make handwritten notes, but also, for example, solve arithmetic problems and make drawings. Everything is just the same as with paper and pen or a whole range of coloured pencils. Afterwards, however, everything should of course look reasonably tidy. This means that the written sentences should be neatly placed one below the other, if possible always with the same spacing between them. Even our handwritten arithmetic problems should not necessarily appear „lubricated“. In order to achieve this, OneNote, for example in the Microsoft 365 Family package (also in the Windows 11 Enterprise operating system), first sets up guides. Find the right guides with 4 clicks

First, open the correct OneNote notebook or create a new one.
Then select the „View“ area at the top of the menu.
Click on the „Guides“entry
Choose whether you want lined or squared writing paper and select appropriate size.

Now the open page in the notebook automatically shows the selected guides. Later, these can be easily deleted or hidden again.

Let’s get writing or drawing!

Everything set up? Great – then you’re ready to go!

Depending on the version of OneNote as a feature of, for example, Microsoft 365 Business Premium under Windows 11 Pro for Workstation

, the taskbar may look a little different. But the functions are always the same.

Under the ‚Draw‘

tab, one of the virtual pens is selected first. Everything is available, from simple pens with thin leads to fine pencils and wide highlighters.

Under „Colour and thickness“

you can now change the thickness of the strokes, letters, numbers or drawings as well as their colour.

Tip:

If certain pencils, thicknesses and/or colours are needed again and again, they can be saved as „favourites“. Over time, you can create your own personal „pencil assortment“.

At first it can be a little unusual to take handwritten notes on the tablet. For some, a little practice can be helpful. And don’t worry: you will soon find out how hard to press with the pen, for example, to achieve different effects.

Note:

The pressure of the pen can be set and checked in the driver of the graphics tablet or with a tool such as „Surface App“.

The guides now help you to write as if you had a sheet of paper in front of you – without slipping in the lines on the tablet. When everything is ready, the guides only need to be deactivated.

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OneNote: How to integrate a notebook into teams

Many still cope with everyday work without a OneNote notebook: you have an idea and jot it down on a piece of paper in between. You also scribble down the telephone number you want a colleague to call you back. You discover a great savings offer on the internet and write down the URL on a piece of paper … In no time at all you get lost among all these pieces of paper and in the end you can’t find anything anymore. But all those who have signed up under one of the packages of Windows 11 for example with the Microsoft Office 2021 Standard or Microsoft Office 365 Home have a tool at hand that makes this paperwork unnecessary: the OneNote notebook.

What is the OneNote notebook?

Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook are familiar to anyone who works on a PC with Windows 11 Home, Windows 11 Pro or Windows 11 Pro N, Microsoft Office 2021 Home and Business or Microsoft 365 Family on a PC. But very few people know that the OneNote notebook is already installed there. This is a digital notebook that can replace calendars, notebooks and memos. Sketches, handwritten notes, graphics, pictures, lists and documents can be conveniently inserted and managed. Multimedia content such as e-mails, websites and videos can also be organised well with the OneNote notebook Since you can also save all content in a cloud, there is no danger of misplacing or forgetting anything.

OneNote as part of Teams

One of the components of the Microsoft Office suite such as Microsoft 365 Business Premium in the operating system Windows 11 Education or Windows 11 Enterprise is the communication platform Teams. OneNote is also integrated into this. Working with it facilitates many processes and is very simple: [/vc_column_text ]