516 Chapter 18 Explore OneNote 2010
Navigating in the OneNote Program Window.
In the same way that the Windows operating system information storage structure
reflects that of a physical office, (with a desktop, folders, and files), the OneNote storage
structure reflects that of a tabbed notebook. You might have a notebook for each proj-
ect you work on, or one notebook in which you track business information and another
in which you track personal information. Each notebook is divided into sections, and
each section is divided into pages. If you want to extend the analogy, you can even for-
mat the background of a notebook page to resemble various types of ruled paper.
See Also For information about changing the background of a notebook page, see “Creating
Sections and Pages,” in Chapter 19, “Create and Configure Notebooks.”
In Windows Explorer, each notebook is represented by a folder in your Documents\OneNote
Notebooks folder. Each section of a notebook is stored as an .one file within the note-
book folder. (Although you would usually move sections within OneNote itself, it is pos-
sible to move or copy a section to a different notebook in Windows Explorer by moving
or copying the section file to a different notebook’s folder.A typical OneNote notebook storage structure.When you start OneNote 2010 for the first time, the program opens a sample notebook
named Personal. Thereafter when you start OneNote, the notebook you worked with in
the previous OneNote session opens.
Information about the content of open OneNote notebooks is shown in four areas of
the OneNote program window.