Microsoft Office Professional 2010 Step by Step eBook

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Taking Notes on the Side.

It’s not necessary to start OneNote each time you want to take notes or otherwise store

information. You can also enter information into a Side Note—a simplified version of the

OneNote program window. You can quickly open a Side Note by clicking the OneNote

icon located in the notification area of the Windows Taskbar.

Keyboard Shortcut Press Ctrl+Shift+M to open a Side Note.

You can also open a Side Note from within the OneNote program window by clicking

the New Side Note button, in the Window group, on the View tab.

Dock to Desktop

Full Page View

A standard Side Note is a minimized version of a OneNote page, with the Navigation Bar and Page

Tabs area hidden, that displays a subset of the ribbon.

You can dock a Side Note to the desktop or display it in the full OneNote window by

clicking the view buttons on the Quick Access Toolbar.

You work with content in a Side Note in the same way you work with it in the OneNote

program window—because, in fact, that is precisely what you are doing. If you click the

Full Page View button in the Side Note window (and then enlarge the window to provide

perspective), you’ll find yourself working on a page in the Unfiled Notes section.