OneNote for Windows 10 feels most like a virtual pen and paper notebook, the editing features are simple and would work for someone who simply needs a notetaking app, rather than a more advanced organisation system. And because it links, any changes made in OneNote are synced over.Įditing Features in OneNote for Windows 10 You can link to an Excel spreadsheet with ease!! You can either embed the entire file, a specific spreadsheet, or a certain chart and table.Unlike in OneNote for Windows 10, spellcheck is a button that can be pressed at any point, giving greater peace of mind. Spellcheck, and a proper spellcheck at that.

These are really useful for keeping track of different priorities and actions in a visual way. By default, OneNote for Windows 10 has five, and OneNote has 29. The number of default tags created, and the icons assigned to them.

This means that with one click you can email meeting agendas in a visually appealing format, and allow someone to add to your notes, through collaborative editing. OneNote for Windows 10, however, doesn’t recognise Outlook and tries to get you to use Windows Mail or People (their contact lists). The ability to easily email a page through your chosen email program.Here at ramsac, we all use OneNote for meeting agendas, sharing lists and content, or for general ideas dumping. Some of our favourite features in OneNote are:

You can also find extra features easily and have access to the ‘History’ of your content, which is like a tracked changes and version history feature, and everything is given more white space around each element. More than anything, the immediate visibility of every feature makes this a far superior experience than that of OneNote for Windows 10. You can create ‘tags’ which make for good task lists and help you to categorise meeting notes easily. The ability to edit, as you would a Word document, makes for an intelligent note taking app. OneNote, on the other hand, has the notebooks in the far left, the sections stacked neatly to the right of your notebook list, and then the individual pages sit in the far right, listed in a vertical list, rather than the horizontal list that the sections sit in.

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