[AccessD] Onenote

Actually it is a bit easier than that.  You do not need to 
do the close / rename thing, just do the rest of your sequence.



John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com


Susan Harkins wrote:
> Oh...
> 
> If you're wanting to do what I think you're wanting to do, right... there's 
> no interface tool for it because OneNote wants to manage things for you. 
> Here's what you do, and it aint pretty:
> 
> Close OneNote and find your notebook folder "My Notebook" probably.
> Rename the folder anything you like.
> Launch OneNote and it'll be confused when it can't find "My Notebook" so it 
> creates a new blank notebook.
> Select Options from the Tools menu.
> Select Open from the Save page of the Options dialog box.
> Select the My Notebook path and click Modify.
> Browse to your renamed folder and click Select.
> Click OK to close the Options dialog box.
> Clsoe and restart OneNote and your renamed notebook is the current notebook.
> 
> I told you it was ugly. To switch between notebooks, use the Options dialog 
> box.
> 
> Susan H.
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "jwcolby" <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com>
> To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving" 
> <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
> Sent: Friday, January 30, 2009 6:11 PM
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Onenote
> 
> 
>> OK, I'll bite.  HOW do you just get rid of the current notebook?
>>
>> Here's the deal.  When OneNote opens it has a ton of
>> folders, each folder has folders etc.
>>
>> I want to CLOSE that entire thing.  I then want to create a
>> brand new Notebook, specifically for one project.
>>
>> I don't find any way to close the notebook itself, only the
>> folders.  Even then there comes a time where I see folders
>> but if I click on the folder I am taken down into that
>> folder, so I can't close that filder.
>>
>> This stuff is very confusing simply because there are so
>> many objects that you can work on, create new ones of, but
>> the notebook itself does not appear to be an object that you
>> can treat as a whole.
>>
>> For example I have no idea where the notebook that I am
>> opening actually resides.  The FOLDERS can be seen but even
>> then the path is so long that I can't read the location.
>>
>> THIS is why I keep dropping OneNote.
>>
>> John W. Colby
>> www.ColbyConsulting.com
>>
>>
>> Charlotte Foust wrote:
>>> You can also selectively load and unload notebooks, paste cross links
>>> between notebooks, paste screen shots, graphics, and even files into
>>> notes, and do a lot of other useful stuff.  I like to write in it, a
>>> page for an overview, a page for each section or idea, etc., and then
>>> move the pages around and shuffle the notes on them.
>>>
>>> Charlotte Foust
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
>>> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Susan Harkins
>>> Sent: Friday, January 30, 2009 7:38 AM
>>> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
>>> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Onenote
>>>
>>> Notebooks are the main container, but you can have more than one. Or,
>>> you can create new sections -- does any of that help you?
>>>
>>> Susan H.
>>>
>>>
>>>> I think that perhaps it is because it is not overly friendly in
>>>> splitting out OneNote files that I can load, which are specific to one
>>>> thing.  For example one for clients, one for personal projects etc.
>>>> You are supposed to have everything in ONE Note (I understand that)
>>>> but when you do you end up traversing the tree up and down looking for
>>>> stuff.
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