How to use templates in ON07

[kojaks43]

Brand new to One Note.

Unsure how to use templates. I select one and each subsequent page uses
that template as a graphic. Pretty cool.

However, what if I have 50 pages and I want to globally change all the pages
to use that template? What if I grow tired of a graphic, can I change all
the pages that use it?

OneNote is pretty nifty, so I am sure there is a way to make the changes
over all pages in a workbook. I just can not figure out how.

Your guidance is appreciated.

k

 

[Kazuko Hishikawa (MS)]

Unfortunately, page template can’t be change once page has content.
It is only effective when you insert new page.

 

[EMRhelp.org]

Brand new to One Note.

Unsure how to use templates. I select one and each subsequent page uses
that template as a graphic. Pretty cool.

However, what if I have 50 pages and I want to globally change all the pages
to use that template? What if I grow tired of a graphic, can I change all
the pages that use it?

OneNote is pretty nifty, so I am sure there is a way to make the changes
over all pages in a workbook. I just can not figure out how.

Your guidance is appreciated.

k

I can't see why you would want to do this. I suppose if you used
trivial templates with just a pretty graphic you might want to do
that. Most people use templates that provide function for them. ie.
a template might be a questionnaire. In that case, you would never
really have much use for your scenario.

 

[kojaks43]

Thanks, ERMhelp.org.

Here is a scenario that may cause you to wish to change a template...You
design a questionnaire using a particular template's graphic. You just love
it. Your boss just loves it. You use that questionaire for 3 months. Your
boss gets a promotion, you get a new boss. The new boss HATES the graphic on
the questionnaire. Every time you show the new boss a copy of the old
questionnaire, you just want to drain a vein.

What I find surprising is that with all the ease that One Note allows in
placing text and links and moving them from one place to another. In all the
ability One Note allows in making "on-the-fly" graphic color graduations to
note books and section headers. That it would be an unusual request to change
a template's graphics.

The template graphic should be no more difficult to change than a font or
it's attributes in a message. It is a graphic, and as such, it's purpose is
to make the page more attractive, more legible. Microsoft has it tied to the
page like a splint to a broken leg. In my opinion, that is contrary to One
Note's "mission".

k

 

[Kathy Jacobs]

Actually, it is just a graphic on the page. If you right click the graphic,
you will see that there is a checkmark next to "Set as background". Unselect
that option and the graphic pops back to the foreground. Once it is in the
foreground, you can remove it, replace it, and put the new one back on the
background.

You can do this on the individual pages that already use the template and on
the template page itself.

--
Kathy Jacobs, Microsoft MVP OneNote and PowerPoint
Author of Kathy Jacobs on PowerPoint
Get PowerPoint and OneNote information at www.onppt.com

I believe life is meant to be lived. But:
if we live without making a difference, it makes no difference that we lived

 

[EMRhelp.org]

I think the problem here is you are Using OneNote to administer
questionnaires.
Q: don't you want the data in a database ?
You need to find a solution that will enable the data to move into a
database for analysis. OneNote cannot do that.

Surely you don't have the time to do this manually.
If you are doing it manually - I'd use paper. It is lightweight, easy
to read, doesn't need batteries and is cheap.

If your survey answers could be completed by filling in circles, I'd
find some software that would convert the paper to data.

 

[kojaks43]

Kathy, you are my hero. I just knew there had to be a way.
Thank you very much.
k