A few OneNote editing questions

[Dave]

Am hoping for some howto suggestions:

a.. Can OneNote add-ins be written using .Net3.0 and WPF using VS2008? If anyone has tried this could they pass on some suggestons as to whether it worked or were there problems? Any gotchas?

a.. Like Word, is it possbile to globally find then remap all instances of a certain font/style/size/color combination to a new font/style/size/color?

a.. Anyway to flow rich text in 2 or 3 columns on a page like Word does? I can setup a table but there is not autoflow to the next column when the container is full and when you type in the last column and hit enter the cursor goes back to the first column unlike it does when typing in columns 1 and 2

Thanks so much,
Dave

 

[Ilya Koulchin]

* Can OneNote add-ins be written using .Net3.0 and WPF using VS2008?
If anyone has tried this could they pass on some suggestons as to
whether it worked or were there problems? Any gotchas?

OneNote uses COM to communicate with addins - therefore, any technology
capable of COM interop (including the .Net framework) can be used to
write addins. If the interop dll shipped with OneNote doesn't work with
v3 of the framework, it's pretty easy to write your own interop layer.

* Like Word, is it possbile to globally find then remap all
instances of a certain font/style/size/color combination to a
new font/style/size/color?

Not directly, but you can export the contents of the page, examine them
for your desired font style, and reimport your changes.

* Anyway to flow rich text in 2 or 3 columns on a page like Word
does? I can setup a table but there is not autoflow to the next
column when the container is full and when you type in the last
column and hit enter the cursor goes back to the first column
unlike it does when typing in columns 1 and 2

You can use tables, or multiple outline containers side by side. Since
OneNote does not really have a concept of a fixed page size though, you
will not get text flowing into the next cell/outline (there's always
room to append it to the current column!). If you absolutely need
precise multi-column formatting, Word sounds like it would be a better
option.

Ilya

 

[Dave]

OneNote uses COM to communicate with addins - therefore, any technology
capable of COM interop (including the .Net framework) can be used to write
addins. If the interop dll shipped with OneNote doesn't work with v3 of
the framework, it's pretty easy to write your own interop layer.

That of course makes sense had I thought about it some more...

Not directly, but you can export the contents of the page, examine them
for your desired font style, and reimport your changes.


You can use tables, or multiple outline containers side by side. Since
OneNote does not really have a concept of a fixed page size though, you
will not get text flowing into the next cell/outline (there's always room
to append it to the current column!). If you absolutely need precise
multi-column formatting, Word sounds like it would be a better option.

The reason I want columns is in fact for "notes" that are often a lot less
that a "line" and so have been keeping them in Word in multiple columns so I
can fit more on a page (in my case anyway) and autoflow inside a multi
column container would be nice so as to not have to fool with multiple
containers.

Would be nice to have these editing features but I like OneNote a lot so
will live with it. Not a show stopper.

Thanks so much,
Dave