Merge Pages PowerToy
A powertoy from Jeff Cardon, one of the OneNote Testers…
Takes selected pages in OneNote and at the click of a button it will merge all of the pages together into one page.
A screenshot of what it looks like in the toolbar:
Direct download link mergepages_setup.zip
Some notes: there is a popup dialog which explains Undo is not supported. You can disable this dialog if you want, and I recommend disabling it as soon as you get comfortable with the implications that Undo is not supported. There is another warning if you merge more than 10 pages at a time. Again, you can disable this warning.
The reason I suggest disabling those warning are this is another managed code addin, so we cannot control focus of the confirmation dialogs. If you click the button and it looks like nothing happened, look “behind” OneNote to see the dialog. It’s easier just to live without the dialogs when you merge pages.
When installing, as usual, exit OneNote, run setup.exe and choose to install for all users.
Posted: August 23rd, 2007 under MS OneNote Team, Taskbar & Utilities.
Comments
Comment from Jeremy Schwach
October 2, 2007 at 11:41 pm
Bug Report: I just installed this OneNote powertoy. While it successfully makes a page a subpage, it also moves that page to the highest section group level within that notebook (undesired effect).
Comment from Jim McGowan
November 8, 2007 at 1:24 pm
I'm not having much success with this Powertoy. You have no idea what the merged pages will look like until you go ahead and merge them. If the result is not good (as I have experienced each time), you are out of luck, as it is not possible to undo the merge.
I think I'm going to uninstall this Powertoy until/unless I see a powerful reason to use it. It has virtually the same icon as the Subpage powertoy and is too easily used mistakenly.
Jim
Comment from Jim McGowan
November 8, 2007 at 4:24 pm
I’m not having much success with this Powertoy. You have no idea what the merged pages will look like until you go ahead and merge them. If the result is not good (as I have experienced each time), you are out of luck, as it is not possible to undo the merge.
I think I’m going to uninstall this Powertoy until/unless I see a powerful reason to use it. It has virtually the same icon as the Subpage powertoy and is too easily used mistakenly.
Jim
Comment from Cody Knuppenburg
July 7, 2009 at 10:57 am
Does this work with 64bit? I installed the addin and it shows up in the list of installed addins but I don’t get a toolbar button. I also looked through the list of toolbar buttons and couldn’t find it.
Don’t know if it matters but the prog installs to:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\OneNote Page Merge
btw I had the same problem with another powertoy “Table of Contents”
Thanks to anyone who can help
Cody
Comment from Jeremy Schwach
October 2, 2007 at 9:41 pm
Bug Report: I just installed this OneNote powertoy. While it successfully makes a page a subpage, it also moves that page to the highest section group level within that notebook (undesired effect).