Does OneNote have ...?

Posted by Graham Rhind
Jul 1, 2007 at 07:03 PM

Hi Cassius,

Cassius wrote:
>I’ve read MS’s descriptions of ON and watched its awful tours/demos. Before I
>actually install it, perhaps someone who likes it can answer a couple of
>questions:
> >1. Does it have the ability to display a tree (2-pane) interface?

No, and it’s its major fault, in my opinion. Microsoft sticks rigidly to the notebook paradigm.

>2. If
>not, how many levels of sub-tabs are possible?

You can have unlimited numbers of notebooks, each with sections or section groups, which in turn can have section groups and so on (so there is theoretically no limit to the depth you can go with sections, though the overview can quickly be lost); with each section split into an unlimited number of pages (which can be sub pages, but they’re just indented pages, really).

>3. How well/easily/accurately does
>it save Web pages?

It’s not designed to save whole pages with formatting, and it doesn’t attempt to make any use of style sheets, formatting etc. So pages are saved more as a bunch of stuff rather than a laid-out page. It’s really meant just to save snippets from web pages, such as pictures or text, which is does well. Note: Only IE has the toolbar add in to save a webpage to OneNote. There was one for the previous version for FireFox, but I’ve not yet seen this for OneNote 2007.

Graham

>
>Many thanks!!!
> >-c