Thanks for your reply and the interesting scenario.
John said:
Really depends what kind of data is being stored and how ON is used
but there's absolutely no reason that ON will not work well for this.
...
We have about 1500 student records (grows daily) across a dozen or
more notebooks and OneNote has been the perfect application for the
staff since it was launched. They all love it because it fits in with
their workflow.
Makes sense this way!
But for sure it affords a high amount of discipline.
Perhaps this learnt database-developer and -programming is still wearing
blinkers said:
Sort Sections was a crucial powertoy for us. Before that, we were
sorting sections manually which was painful.
Oh yes. Only too important that the PowerToy - as well as "Sort Pages" -
still work in ON2010!!
The new version has not really gained much in the areas covered by the
PowerToys {siiigh}. It seems that developers excluded many things which
IMHO would be essentials for ON because of thinking that the needs would
be covered already ...
We're looking forward to the enhanced abilities of ON2010.
Don't you use it already? Not even test wise?
I gave been working with it since July without any problems - side by
side with ON2007 (and most of the notebooks still in the old format).
As said the features for searching have tremendously been improved and
I'm sure that in your scenario you will benefit at lot from that.
In other areas mist urgent things gave been neglected, especially in the
field of "graphics". There still is no feature for grouping/anchoring
and annotating "images" (things printed into ON) still is as awful as it
ever was {siiiigh}.
And a terrible drawback for *me* personally is the fact that my way of
handling multiple languages has been destroyed (I had the language
selection with a ListBox in the toolbar and this is no longer possible
{siiiiigh}. And what makes things worse is the fact the option to "hide
spelling errors" still only works *globally* and there's no way to do
it per container/page/section.
Bad days to come .... :-( :-(
Rainald