closing Notebooks

[oistrakhan]

I have a Notebook that I don't want to delete altogether - I want to archive
it. So I tried 'closing' one and it just vanished it altogether and wasn't
even visible in 'All Notebooks' on the Navigation Pane. [I think that should
be called 'All Open Notebooks' because it is NOT all notebooks.]
I then went to File Open, Notebook and it whipped me right out of OneNote
and into Windows Explorer. There was the notebook I had just closed - end of
heart failure.
There seem to be two kinds of 'closed' within OneNote. There is the heavy
duty version of closed (which I've just described) and the Lite version which
is when a Notebook icon in the Navigation Pane looks like a closed book
rather than an open book.
How do the experts differentiate between these two types of 'closed'? Why
is there no help on this subject in Help? I just found all this out by trial
and error.


think I must be very stupid but I cannot make 'snap to grid' work and the
online help says nothing about it - except in relation to drawings.
Somewhere I found this instruction - "To permanently turn the page grid
option on or off, click the Snap To Grid command on the Edit menu." I can't
make this command work. It doesn't seem to do anything. What I want is to
be able to write a new Note in a container that automatically aligns with the
note container above so that my page doesn't resemble an untidy pin-board!

 

[Patrick Schmid [MVP]]

When a notebook is closed, you effectively remove the file from OneNote's
knowledge like you discovered. In the other case you describe, the notebook
is open, but not active or not the current one. The usual way of working
with this is to keep all notebooks open and only close a notebook if you
want to archive it. This is not just a question of how it looks like to you,
because open notebook are cached by OneNote (relevant if the notebook is
shared with other people or resides on another computer).
The nomenclature is pretty much in line with Word, Excel, etc except that in
OneNote, you don't normally close files like you would in those programs.


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[Rainald Taesler]

I have a Notebook that I don't want to delete altogether - I want
to archive it. So I tried 'closing' one and it just vanished it
altogether and wasn't even visible in 'All Notebooks' on the
Navigation Pane. [I think that should be called 'All Open
Notebooks' because it is NOT all notebooks.]

"Yes, "All Notebooks" just shows all *open* notebooks.
How should ON present notebooks that are closed?

I then went to File Open, Notebook and it whipped me right out of
OneNote and into Windows Explorer. There was the notebook I had
just closed - end of heart failure.
There seem to be two kinds of 'closed' within OneNote. There is the
heavy duty version of closed (which I've just described) and the
Lite version which is when a Notebook icon in the Navigation Pane
looks like a closed book rather than an open book.

A bit different:
To "close" a notebook means that it is no longer loaded in ON.
What you call "light version" does not close the notebook at all. The
notebook is still open and active in ON.
Just the presentation on the navigation pane is different.

How do the experts differentiate between these two types of
'closed'? Why is there no help on this subject in Help? I just
found all this out by trial and error.

It's easy enough:
The navigation pane shows all *open* notebooks.
If there is a bar with the notebook's name, the notebook is open.
Clicking on the bar with name just unfolds the register or closes the
view of a notebook's contents.

Rainald
P.S. I for one could not yet reveal the secrets of the grid :-(

 

[Rainald Taesler]

oistrakhan wrote:

I have a Notebook that I don't want to delete altogether - I want
to archive it. So I tried 'closing' one and it just vanished it
altogether and wasn't even visible in 'All Notebooks' on the
Navigation Pane. [I think that should be called 'All Open
Notebooks' because it is NOT all notebooks.]

"Yes, "All Notebooks" just shows all *open* notebooks.
How should ON present notebooks that are closed?

I then went to File Open, Notebook and it whipped me right out of
OneNote and into Windows Explorer. There was the notebook I had
just closed - end of heart failure.
There seem to be two kinds of 'closed' within OneNote. There is the
heavy duty version of closed (which I've just described) and the
Lite version which is when a Notebook icon in the Navigation Pane
looks like a closed book rather than an open book.

A bit different:
To "close" a notebook means that it is no longer loaded in ON.
What you call "light version" does not close the notebook at all. The
notebook is still open and active in ON.
Just the presentation on the navigation pane is different.

How do the experts differentiate between these two types of
'closed'? Why is there no help on this subject in Help? I just
found all this out by trial and error.

It's easy enough:
The navigation pane shows all *open* notebooks.
If there is a bar with the notebook's name, the notebook is open.
Clicking on the bar with name just unfolds the register or closes the
view of a notebook's contents.

Rainald
P.S. I for one could not yet reveal the secrets of the grid :-(