How to disable new, empty note at startup?

[Michael Moser]

Sorry for this probably stupid question, but I didn't find any
corresponding setting or switch in Options or Customize:
I do *not* want OneNote to start with a new, empty document. Rather I
would prefer to see the last note I was working on.
And I also do not want it to start in "Full Screen" mode but rather I
want to see "notebook bar" (which I have at the left side) and the pages
list (in my case on the right side).
How do I adjust these settings?

Michael

 

[Rainald Taesler]

I do *not* want OneNote to start with a new, empty document. Rather
I would prefer to see the last note I was working on.
And I also do not want it to start in "Full Screen" mode but rather
I want to see "notebook bar" (which I have at the left side) and
the pages list (in my case on the right side).
How do I adjust these settings?

It seems that you are using ON a bit different from "normal" usage:
Both of your points only appear if one closes the notebooks prior to
closing ON.

That's not the way to work with ON.
Different from other applications (f.e. a word processor like Word) in
ON one does not close the notebooks. One just leaves all of the
notebooks *open* and closes the application with open notebooks.

Doing so, will re-open ON with the the last used page open. And the
screen comes up in the state it had when ON was closed.

HTH
Rainald

 

[Rainald Taesler]

I do *not* want OneNote to start with a new, empty document. Rather
I would prefer to see the last note I was working on.
And I also do not want it to start in "Full Screen" mode but rather
I want to see "notebook bar" (which I have at the left side) and
the pages list (in my case on the right side).
How do I adjust these settings?

It seems that you are using ON a bit different from "normal" usage:
Both of your points only appear if one closes the notebooks prior to
closing ON.

That's not the way to work with ON.
Different from other applications (f.e. a word processor like Word) in
ON one does not close the notebooks. One just leaves all of the
notebooks *open* and closes the application with open notebooks.

Doing so, will re-open ON with the the last used page open. And the
screen comes up in the state it had when ON was closed.

HTH
Rainald

 

[Michael Moser]

It seems that you are using ON a bit different from "normal" usage:
Both of your points only appear if one closes the notebooks prior to
closing ON.

That's not the way to work with ON.
Different from other applications (f.e. a word processor like Word) in
ON one does not close the notebooks. One just leaves all of the
notebooks *open* and closes the application with open notebooks.

Doing so, will re-open ON with the the last used page open. And the
screen comes up in the state it had when ON was closed.

HTH
Rainald

Sorry, but I have to contradict here:
1.) I am not using in the way you assume above
2.) ON on my system apparently does NOT re-open with the last page open
when I closed it.

I always leave ON's books/pages open. I occassionally close ON, but when
I then re-start ON it always presents me a new empty, untitled page,
which is exactly what I am complaining about (i.e. would it reopen with
the last page I had open when I closed it I would be fine).

Michael

 

[Rev. Michael L. Burns]

Michael,
I use ON 2007 daily and have at any time 6 or more notebooks open within it
, each with many sections, subsections, pages and subpages. I can close ON
and every time I reopen it it opens to the last notebook/section/page that I
was working on, which is standard and I believe is what you're not seeing.

May I ask a stupid question? How are you reopening ON? Could it be possible
that you are using the tray icon, which actually opens a sidenote ( a blank
ON page in the unfiled notes section, which if maximized would open
maximized the next time) by default? If so, try opening ON from the Start
Menu and see if that helps.

The tray icon by default opens a new blank page, a sidenote. However, if you
choose, you can set it to open the full ON by right clicking the tray icon,
selecting options/Tray Icon defaults and select the desired behavior.

My personal preference is to leave the defaults for the tray icon, allowing
me to take quick notes without launching the full ON and having them
automatically saved in the unfiled notes section of ON every time I close
the sidenote. If I want to go to the full ON, I launch it from the start
menu and it opens to my last point automatically.

It was just a thought. Hope this helps.

Michael

 

[Rainald Taesler]

Sorry, but I have to contradict here:
1.) I am not using in the way you assume above
2.) ON on my system apparently does NOT re-open with the last page
open when I closed it.

I always leave ON's books/pages open. I occassionally close ON, but
when I then re-start ON it always presents me a new empty, untitled
page, which is exactly what I am complaining about (i.e. would it
reopen with the last page I had open when I closed it I would be
fine).

On re-read it seems to me that Michael L. Burns has valid solution for
the mystery: "new empty untitled page" is the keyword! This is a
sidenote, pretty sure.

Rainald

 

[Rainald Taesler]

I think you did hit the nail on it's head with the assumption that
Michael sees a sidenote.

Apart from that:
I for one work the other way around.
I have the options set to open ON (not a sidenote) when clicking on the
icon in the IconTray. When wanting to create a sidenote I just use a
right-click on the icon and select sidenote from the menu.

Chacun à son goût.

Rainald

 

[Michael Moser]

I think you did hit the nail on it's head with the assumption that

Yep - exactly. I had completely overlooked, that one can change that
default!
Thanks and sorry for the bandwidth!

Michael (slightly embarrassed )