While Microsoft Word Track Changes and Comments are well known document review tools for editors and reviewers, Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 also has its own set of review tools you can use when you’re reviewing the next big client presentation. Like it or not, a lot of the civilized business world runs on PowerPoint presentations making it in everybody’s best interest to get reviewers using electronic review tools to review PowerPoint slides.
In this post, let’s take a look at those review tools:
One of the hidden gems of Office 2010 is that it now includes OneNote 2010 – the latest release of Microsoft’s simple yet elegant note taking application. Formerly, you had to purchase OneNote separately making it a special software request inside many corporations and not standard issue. Now that it comes with all versions of Office 2010, my first hope is that it helps slay the useless tradition of taking meeting minutes, but before that comes collaborating with OneNote.
OneNote can serve as an effective backchannel for collaborative note taking, whiteboard session captures, and capturing the myriad of bits and bytes that comes with running a technology project.
Now that you have notebooks teeming with notes and data it’s time to settle in with OneNote as part of your daily workflow. In Getting Started with OneNote 2010: Part 3, we’ll take a look at how to search through your notebooks for information and how to get information out of OneNote 2010 into other applications and to other project team members.
Professional documents can go through many changes before you declare them final and ready for publication. Along the way to final document, it is real easy to chock up a lot of questions and ideas that don’t have any place in even the draft document. While Word has some great commenting and track changes tool, it doesn’t take too long until the document can flash an unfortunate author back to freshman comp class. Now, in Office 2010, you can take notes in OneNote and link them to your document.
In Getting Started with OneNote: Part 1, I focused on how to get yourself started in OneNote 2010. Now that you have notebooks setup, it’s time to get your information into OneNote. While this is going to be an ongoing task for many OneNote users, expect some setup time if you are moving your information into OneNote for the first time.
OneNote offers some flexible options for getting your information into its pages and note books. Here are some options for getting your information into OneNote 2010. read more
Microsoft OneNote 2010, a note taking application, is really gaining a wider reach as more enterprises upgrade to Microsoft Office 2010. Including OneNote 2010 as part of Office 2010 is a great move by Microsoft to get this simple yet elegant productivity application into the hands of more users.
Getting started with OneNote 2010 is quite easy. This post lays out some of the basics for getting started with the application.
Often Microsoft Office suffers from a lack of credit (and support) despite the fact that it is the underpinnings to many a business process. It’s easy to brush it off as just being Office but its important to consider that Microsoft Office as an application suite continues to undergo such a metamorphosis from its inauspicious beginning as a bunch of bundled desktop applications to a front end into how a business operates complete with collaboration, communications, and a potential interface into corporate backend applications.
Now that Microsoft OneNote is part of the full Microsoft Office Suite, it was only a matter of time that Microsoft would launch a certification program for the product. The MOS 2010 Study Guide for Microsoft OneNote by John Pierce is the official study guide for the certification and while written for readers seeking OneNote certification breaks down all the major OneNote tasks for using OneNote productively. Even if you aren’t angling for OneNote certification, it’s a book worth checking out to learn about OneNote more in-depth.
Pierce is a solid writer with an easy to read style and the book is well paced. All of this is important to me in a certification study guide. The screen shots are clear and accurate (they show what that reader will actually see in OneNote) and don’t degenerate into some college freshman art student’s modern art interpretation of a screen shot like they do in the MOS 2010 Study Guide for Microsoft Word.
It made my day yesterday when I checked my iPhone for AppStore updates and saw the news under the OneNote for iPhone update that OneNote for iPad is now available. I wrote about the launch of OneNote for iPhone and bemoaned the lack of a native iPad app but my prayers have been answered with the launch of OneNote for iPad! With all the rumors about the possibility of Microsoft Office coming to the iPad in 2012, I see this launch as a positive sign in that direction.
Just like its iPhone cousin, OneNote for iPad syncs with the OneNote 2010 WebApp. You have the option to synchronize OneNote data only when you are on WiFi – a must have feature in a world of shrinking data plans and tighter management of data plans on corporate mobile devices.
One of the most exciting developments of the Office 2010 launch in my opinion is OneNote 2010 joining the regular Office suite line up. Users now don’t have to purchase it separately because it is already part of Office putting this powerful note taking and organizational tool onto enterprise desktops.
While I am a confirmed Evernote user, I was a longtime OneNote user prior to making that move and still keep some work in OneNote. It’s an under appreciated application that is perhaps one of Microsoft’s best efforts to date and I hope its inclusion in Office 2010 is going to help its standing.
Here are five ways I use OneNote:
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