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Leigh
I have a section with a number of existing pages. Is there any way to
convert one of teh pages to a subpage of nother page?
convert one of teh pages to a subpage of nother page?
K
Kathy J
Leigh,
It's a little hard to explain, but it works slick:
To make things clearer, I am going to call the page to become a sub-page P1,
the page it is going to become a sub-page of P2, and the first sub-page of
P2 will be SP1....
Make sure that P2 has a sub-page. If it doesn't, add it. This is SP1. Click
on P1 and drag it out to the right slightly, then over SP1. It will become a
sub-page of P2 and will be placed after SP1.
Try it - it works pretty slick.
--
Kathryn Jacobs, Microsoft MVP PowerPoint and OneNote
Co-Author of Power OneNote: Unleashing the Power of OneNote from Holy Macro!
Books
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I believe life is meant to be lived. But:
if we live without making a difference, it makes no difference that we lived
It's a little hard to explain, but it works slick:
To make things clearer, I am going to call the page to become a sub-page P1,
the page it is going to become a sub-page of P2, and the first sub-page of
P2 will be SP1....
Make sure that P2 has a sub-page. If it doesn't, add it. This is SP1. Click
on P1 and drag it out to the right slightly, then over SP1. It will become a
sub-page of P2 and will be placed after SP1.
Try it - it works pretty slick.
--
Kathryn Jacobs, Microsoft MVP PowerPoint and OneNote
Co-Author of Power OneNote: Unleashing the Power of OneNote from Holy Macro!
Books
Get OneNote answers at http://www.onenoteanswers.com
Get PowerPoint answers at http://www.powerpointanswers.com
Want to learn OneNote? Check out
http://www.eclecticacademy.com/newclasses.htm#onenote
I believe life is meant to be lived. But:
if we live without making a difference, it makes no difference that we lived
H
Herb Martin
Kathy J said:
Good advice.
It would be "slicker" if you could just right click and
demote to subpage. Or even just drag it to the parent
without that creation of another subpage.
The user interface in OneNote seems fairly bizarre which
is probably a big part of the reason that OneNote is just a
well kept secret.
It is odd in ways that offer few if any advantages -- almost
as if they designers were just trying a bunch of new ideas
and slapped them together.
B
Ben M. Schorr, MVP
They took some chances on some new ideas and not all of them worked out.
That happens a lot in v1 products. Learn from it and get better inv2.
--
-Ben-
Ben M. Schorr, MVP-OneNote/Outlook
Operations Coordinator
Stockholm/KSG - Honolulu
http://www.scgab.com
H
Herb Martin
It is odd in ways that offer few if any advantages -- almost
It wasn't a good move for a "new type" of product
to make the user interface gratuitously different.
Gratuitous differences in the user interface are
seldom a good idea -- User Interface Design 101.
Seldom? Almost never actually.
Ideally, OneNote would just get out of the way
so that one's "hands" take care of the "how", while
one's brain worries only about the "what".
True of any product, but especially true of a
product designed specifically to help one learn
and remember large quantities of information.
The above is an affectionate criticism -- I wouldn't
take the time to criticize this product if I didn't like
it (and especially like the "idea" of OneNote.)
The key is to get those of us who have been doing
all this manually to use OneNote instead and become
evangelists.
OneNote is similar to the situation in the early 90s
when we had to explain to people "why" anyone
would want email or chat (like IM/MSN Messenger).
Today email is practically THE most critical
application for most companies.
They took some chances on some new ideas and not all of them worked out.
v2.
It wasn't a good move for a "new type" of product
to make the user interface gratuitously different.
Gratuitous differences in the user interface are
seldom a good idea -- User Interface Design 101.
Seldom? Almost never actually.
Ideally, OneNote would just get out of the way
so that one's "hands" take care of the "how", while
one's brain worries only about the "what".
True of any product, but especially true of a
product designed specifically to help one learn
and remember large quantities of information.
The above is an affectionate criticism -- I wouldn't
take the time to criticize this product if I didn't like
it (and especially like the "idea" of OneNote.)
The key is to get those of us who have been doing
all this manually to use OneNote instead and become
evangelists.
OneNote is similar to the situation in the early 90s
when we had to explain to people "why" anyone
would want email or chat (like IM/MSN Messenger).
Today email is practically THE most critical
application for most companies.
L
Leigh
Many thanks Kathy, and also teh others who responded. It is strange that
aspects of OneNote are not as intuitive as other Office programmes. But,
then, OneNote is different in so many ways.
Leigh
aspects of OneNote are not as intuitive as other Office programmes. But,
then, OneNote is different in so many ways.
Leigh
B
Benoit Barabe \(MS\)
Leigh,
You can also use group/ungroup, which might be easier once you get to select
the pages you want to group properly... (And here I'll admit it isn't as
intuitive as we wished for, but rather easy once you've done it once).
When you click on a page once, we navigate to it. Click a second time and it
will show as selected. Now you can use either CTRL-Click on another page to
select another page that is not next to it, or SHIFT-Click on another page
to select the pages as a range.
Then right-click on one of the page and select "Group" (or Ungroup later to
do the reverse).
Hope this helps,
Benoit, OneNote Development.
You can also use group/ungroup, which might be easier once you get to select
the pages you want to group properly... (And here I'll admit it isn't as
intuitive as we wished for, but rather easy once you've done it once).
When you click on a page once, we navigate to it. Click a second time and it
will show as selected. Now you can use either CTRL-Click on another page to
select another page that is not next to it, or SHIFT-Click on another page
to select the pages as a range.
Then right-click on one of the page and select "Group" (or Ungroup later to
do the reverse).
Hope this helps,
Benoit, OneNote Development.
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Benoit Barabe (MS) said:
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ocbizlaw
I can't make this work at all. Let me make sure I've got it right.
I have a section with 2 pages. One of the pages has two subpages. I want
to demote one of the two regular pages to a subpage so that I am left with
one regular page with 3 subpages. I put my cursor over the tab of the full
page that I want to make a subpage. I hold down my left mouse button and
drag the page down into the subpages.
When I let go is that the page I dragged has become a subpage but the former
subpage above it has been promoted to a regular page.
So now I still have two main pages one of which has two subpages but one of
the former subpages is now a main page.
What am I doing wrong?
I finally just created a new subpage, cut and pasted all of the contents
from the pages I want to demote into the new subpage and deleted the original
page that I wanted to demote.
This is no way to run an airline.
Bob
I have a section with 2 pages. One of the pages has two subpages. I want
to demote one of the two regular pages to a subpage so that I am left with
one regular page with 3 subpages. I put my cursor over the tab of the full
page that I want to make a subpage. I hold down my left mouse button and
drag the page down into the subpages.
When I let go is that the page I dragged has become a subpage but the former
subpage above it has been promoted to a regular page.
So now I still have two main pages one of which has two subpages but one of
the former subpages is now a main page.
What am I doing wrong?
I finally just created a new subpage, cut and pasted all of the contents
from the pages I want to demote into the new subpage and deleted the original
page that I wanted to demote.
This is no way to run an airline.
Bob
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Erik Sojka (MVP)
What you describe just worked for me (i.e. drag a normal page between two
subpages and the dragged page becomes a subpage and the other subpages
remain subpages)
I always find it easier when I need to reorganize things like this is to
drag all of the pages into the order I want them, then shift-select all of
the ordered pages and then right-click the selected page tabs and choose
"Group Pages". That will always take whatever pages are selected and form
a page-subpage relationship with all but the first selected page converted
into subpages.
subpages and the dragged page becomes a subpage and the other subpages
remain subpages)
I always find it easier when I need to reorganize things like this is to
drag all of the pages into the order I want them, then shift-select all of
the ordered pages and then right-click the selected page tabs and choose
"Group Pages". That will always take whatever pages are selected and form
a page-subpage relationship with all but the first selected page converted
into subpages.