Can I create a theme with a common sidebar for a OneNote Notebook?

[auncdn]

I would like to format a notebook so that all of the pages have the same
sidebar containing written information down the left hand side. I guess that
I am trying to create a OneNote notebook that behaves a little bit like a web
site. Ideally, I would like it to work so that if I made a change to this
sidebar, that the change would be applied to the sidebar on all pages of my
notebook and consistency would be maintained. Is applying this kind of
theme/template to a notebook something that I can do in OneNote? If so, I
would greatly appreciate any advice. Also, can hyperlinks be inserted that
will redirect to a specific page in a section? I can only figure out how to
get a hyperlink to direct to a section and not a specific page within it.…

Thank you in advance for your answers, even if it is only to tell me that I
can't get where I want to go.

 

[Rainald Taesler]

I would like to format a notebook so that all of the pages have the
same sidebar containing written information down the left hand side.
I guess that I am trying to create a OneNote notebook that behaves a
little bit like a web site. Ideally, I would like it to work so that
if I made a change to this sidebar, that the change would be applied
to the sidebar on all pages of my notebook and consistency would be
maintained. Is applying this kind of theme/template to a notebook
something that I can do in OneNote?

No, this not possible.
You can define a common template.
But templates are *STATIC* .
In addition: Changing a template will not have any influence on already
existing pages which were created from the template.

Also, can hyperlinks be inserted that will
redirect to a specific page in a section? I can only figure out how
to get a hyperlink to direct to a section and not a specific page
within it.…

Hyperlinks can be set for pages.
This works with creating a hyperlink to a page/paragraph (right-mouse
context-menu) and pasting the link in another page (even in another
notebook).

This will only partly be usable for a template.
If you would f.e. have an "Index" page for some standard sections you
could add a hyperlink to the template.
But as templates are static this would most probably nit if too much
use.

Yu could, however, insert hyperlinks in the individual pages created
from a template.

Rainald

 

[auncdn]

Thank you Rainald... not what I wanted to hear, but now at least I know to
stop trying to figure out something that can't be done!

 

[John Guin [msft]]

There is a template manager addin which will let you replace an image on a
template with a new one at
http://blogs.msdn.com/johnguin/archive/2007/12/13/template-manager-powertoy-for-onenote-2007.aspx

Give it a shot!

 

[Rainald Taesler]

You're welcome - as always

Rainald

Thank you Rainald... not what I wanted to hear, but now at least I
know to stop trying to figure out something that can't be done!