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Clean Notebook (Privatizer/Scrubber)

OneNote 2007

OneNote 2010

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Also referred to as:   Scrubber(.zip), Notebook cleaner and privatizer, OneNote 2010 Privatizer, OneNote 2010 Cleaner(.zip)

Gary Neitzke wrote this tool and here is his summary:

Purpose:

To remove author information and reset navigation points to make the notebook easily distributable.

Description:

This add-in will allow you to prepare a notebook for distribution. When started it will do several things:

1.) Reset all navigation points to the top most page of each section, and the top most section of each section group.

2.) Removes selection from content so the cursor will be in the title box

3.) Clears Author and LastModifiedBy items .

This tool also includes a pair of registry files to toggle cleaning the names on or off. If you only want to move focus to the top of each page in a notebook, double click the "DisableCleaning_Names.reg" file to leave the author names intact. To re-enable this functionality, click the "EnableCleaning_Names.reg" file. Cleaning the names is the default.

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Use Cases:

First, suppose you are an administrator creating a section or some pages in a "New Employee Orientation" notebook which will be shared with all new employees at your company. OneNote keeps track of who modifies information on a page in shared notebooks (right click the "Outline Element" to see on the context menu who last modified it), but in this scenario, it is really irrelevant who typed the information. Wouldn’t it be nice to remove that data from the notebook?   (John Guin)

Another problem is a bit more subtle. If you add a lot of information to a page, focus (technically, the "insertion point," or location of the cursor) is remembered and focus goes to that location when anyone navigates to that page. For our scenario, you would probably want the focus to be at the top of each page by default, but since you probably typed the information at the bottom of the page most recently, focus is left at the bottom. The tedious way to move focus to the top of the page is to manually open each page and click at the top. (John Guin)

Clip to OneNote 3.2.1

OneNote 2007

OneNote 2010

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via madharasan.com

Clip to OneNote is a free Firefox/Thunderbird add-on which helps to send text, pictures and other data to Microsoft Office OneNote with a single click.

Microsoft Office OneNote, is a software package for free-form information gathering. Firefox add-on for collecting data to OneNote (similar to that of IE) is missing, which is a handicap for IE users who want to switch to Firefox. Hence this add on tries to over come this and there by gives Firefox more flexibility and OneNote users an enriched experience with Firefox.

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Don’t forget to set the path to your OneNote executable in the FF Add-On Options…

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Page Tab PowerToy for OneNote 2010

OneNote 2010: Download (Jeff’s original post)

OneNote 2010 introduced two new UI elements to deal with Subpages…

  • Expand/Collapse chevron at end of Page Tab

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  • "Page Floatie"
  • Plus the existing menus and shortcuts…

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Jeff has created a PowerToy to help Expand/Collapse all the groupings, one group, plus added the Increase/Decrease Indent to the ribbon’s View tab.

  • Usage Note: It uses the state of the first grouping when doing Toggle All Groups.
    • In the example below it would expand "PowerToys" and leave "Screen Clippings" expanded.

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Template Manager for OneNote

OneNote 2010: Download (Jeff’s original post)

OneNote 2007: Download (Jeff’s original post)

OneNote’s Template feature can be very handy for repetitive Checklists and Meeting Minutes. They can also be used to add background pictures and dress up your existing pages.

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Jeff created a PowerToy to help manage your templates, since it can be somewhat cumbersome using the built-in workflow. It does not include the existing installed templates by default, but you probably don’t want the clutter of 100+ templates anyways.

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Example usage for a Deacon’s Meeting…

  • Use the "Formal Meeting Notes", add all possible attendees, insert church logo, save as Template.
  • At start of meeting, just create a new page and insert your template. Remove non-attendees.
  • At end of meeting, do a Save As… PDF.
  • Next Meeting, just copy over any open issues or agenda items

Another Example for Daily To Do List…

  • Create a page from one of the Planners.
  • Customize to your workflow.
  • Add links to common notebooks, shortcuts, and repetitive tasks.
  • Save as New Template using PowerToy

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OneNote Word Count

OneNote 2010: Download (Jeff’s Original Post )

OneNote 2007: Download (Dan’s Original Post )

 

Counts the number of words, characters (with and without spaces), outlines, paragraphs and ink words on a page.

2010 Version: (Images from Jeff’s Blog)

2007 Version: (images from Dan’s Blog)

Sort Sections 2010

OneNote 2010: Download (John’s Original Post )

Similar PowerToy for 2010: Download (Jan’s Original Post)

OneNote 2007: Download (Dan’s Original Post )

 

John Guin provided an updated version of Sort Sections for 2010…

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Similar PowerToys:

1. Dan also wrote a Sort Pages for 2007 (download), but it does not yet appear to have been updated for 2010.

2. OneNote 2010 Sort Utility is a stand-alone application, but will sort Pages as well…

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OneNote 2010 Sort Utility

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

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Canvas for OneNote

 

Canvas was recently updated to support Windows XP and Office 2010…

Canvas for OneNote allows you to navigate and edit notebooks in a new way by providing a high-level canvas-view of all your content. The prototype lets you zoom and pan around; view and organize content in new ways; add new pages right where you want them; and even locate pages in a timeline view.

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http://www.officelabs.com/projects/canvasforonenote