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Organize your OneNote notebook

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Find out the best way to organize your notebook for the way you work with Microsoft Office OneNote. Explore the benefits of using sections and folders for keeping your notes in order.

About this course

This course includes:

  • Three self-paced lessons and two practice sessions for hands-on experience.
  • A short test at the end of each lesson; tests are not scored.
  • A Quick Reference Card you can take away from the course.

Goals

After completing this course you will be able to:

  • Organize your notebook in the way that suits you best.
  • Explain the difference between folders and sections and use both when organizing your notebook.
  • Keep your notebook efficient by moving pages, sections, and folders.

Before you begin

If you're completely new to OneNote, you can start with the basics of note taking by reading the course Get to know OneNote.


Just as there are many ways to organize a filing system, there are also many ways to organize a OneNote notebook. None of them are right or wrong. It's a personal choice. Which is best for you and for the way that you work?

Use this course to find out some of the options available to you, such as a single-layer system with many sections, or a multilayer system with sections and folders kept in other folders. Also discover how you can rearrange folders, sections, and pages to get them the way you want.

To learn more about this course, read the overview in the center of this page or the table of contents in the left column. Then click Next to start the first lesson.

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