From Jan Roelof:
As a heavy user of OneNote, I am generally happy with the 2010 version. One of the drawbacks is that most add-ins written for the 2007 version, no longer work for notebooks in the 2010 format, or are unreliable. I am beginning to get familiar with programming for OneNote 2010 and trying my hand at some utilities myself.
The OneNote utility I am sharing here is “OneNote 2010 Sort Utility”. I found that the existing one by Daniel Escapa does not work for my 2010-formatted notebooks.
This utility sorts sections within notebooks and section groups and and (sub)pages within sections. The sorting can be done by name or lastModifiedTime, ascending or descending, and can be done recursively (for sections in section groups in the currently selected notebook or section group, etc) or not. The sorting routines respect subpage structure. For some reason, the section groups themselves apparently cannot be sorted.
To download, please go to http://www.donationcoder.com/Forums/bb/index.php?topic=23629.msg214268#msg214268 http://www.onenotepowertoys.com/downloads/jpijper/OneNote2010SortSetup.zip
The zip-file contains a setup file. Just install and run and you get a treeview of your notebooks. Browse to the notebook, section group, section or page whose sections or (sub)pages you want to sort and press the button.
Requirements: .NET Framework 4, OneNote 2010.
Cheers,
Jan Roelof
Jeff,
THANK YOU! I appreciate all the effort you must’ve put in to create this powertoy. I used it predecessor for 2007 (Sort Pages) religiously.
Yours is even an improvement over that and makes OneNote so much more useful.
Thanks again,
Brian
Excellent — thank you for contributing this!
Like others who used the past ON versions and those PowerToys, I am glad to return to this capability! I wonder if the synchronized version that shows up on a different machine (my laptop, while out at a coffee shop) will see the same sorted view… We’ll see.
Thank you for rebuilding this.
jonathan7007
Hello! I just installed this – THANK YOU, but I can’t get the pages to sort alphabetically. I have the notebooks and the sections going – am I doing something wrong or is there another download for the pages? Thanks so much!
Thank you. The addon works fabulously. Just wondering how much effort it would take to make it show options in the toolbar in the add-ins menu inside onenote. That would increase usability.
Thank you! Im running a big project at the moment and I use OneNote as a helping hand. The addon works really good and makes it much easier to find stuff!
Thanks!
I am looking for a way to just sort the NAMES of the notebook, and not the sections inside. I am setting a Notebook for every project I have with applicable sections inside.
Help?
I find that the program sorts part of the notes I have transfered from Outlook, but not the rest. I suspect that there is something in one of the notes which is a problem. Is this something which you have found before.
Thank you sooooo much! This is one more of those critical “little” things that make Onenote a more effective PIM tool. It is especially useful for grouping notes from recurring meetings and mining for reference info, decisions, untagged tasks, etc. The 1/2 FTE assigned to Office development at Microsoft owes you for this one!
downloaded the sort tool and it works great , but now i cant find it to use a second time . where is it ?
Mensch Herrlich…..thank you very very much ein tolles program……Peter
Is there any way to highlight the sections and pages while viewing the Sort OneNote Section power toy so that I can copy and use as a table of contents?
The perfect tool. Exactly what I was looking for.
Worked great. Thank you
Thank you so much. Why on earth couldn’t Microsoft do that? But thanks.
This is wonderful. Thank you so much. I have the urge to pay you, it is so useful.
Is there an update for OneNote 2013 x64?