How to use to hyperlink to articles

[Terri]

I am preparing to write my dissertation and would like to use OneNote as my
organizer of articles, notes, extras, and so on. I have the articles on my
computer in mostly .htm and .pdf format and would like to create a note with
my comments, then a hyperlink to that particular article, then add any
additional comments. I have looked at the various options. I noticed that a
hyperlink to document files can be added and require the path. However when
I try to insert the path by typing in the path (btw, that can be very long),
or by copying a pasting), if the path has spaces, the hyperlink does not
work. What am I doing wrong or missing here? I know OneNote would be
perfect for this. I used OneNote for my comprehensives, mostly by copying
and pasting excerpts from articles, and it worked great, but if I did that
with my dissertation the file would be huge. Is there a maximum file size?
Any help would be appreciated!!!

 

[Michael]

If you drag and drop the file from the folder into the OneNote page it will
give you a dialog with 2 choices:
1. to import the file and the path
2. to import just the path as a hyperlink

Option 2 appears to work whether or not there are spaces in the filename.

Still wish that the hyperlink path info could be hidden (as with a
traditional html style link).

Best,
Michael

 

[Chris_Pratley \(MS\)]

The file size max is 2GB - you shouldn't have trouble there. (and that is
just for a single section - you can have as many sections as you like).

For typed links you can add < and > on either end of the link like this:
<file://my documents/foo.one>

But as Michael says, it is way faster to drag/drop the file and let Onenote
create the link.

One way to get a hidden path is to create the link elsewhere (e.g. in Word)
then copy/paste it to OneNote. Of couse that is awkward - but we did this
work to get copy/paste of links from web pages to work - I expect we'll have
a proper labelled hyperlink capability in a future release.

Chris (MS)

 

[Ole]

See: http://www.mainsoft.fr/en/downloads.htm

where you can download ClipMate:

"...Very often, you want to pass the full pathname of a file as a parameter to
another program and you have to type it entirely (the Copy command in the
context menu copy the file itself, not its name). How frustrating! The file
is appearing in the right pane of Explorer and you can't copy its name to
the clipboard.

ClipName is a shell extension for Windows 95 and NT 4.0 allowing to copy
the name of a file to the clipboard. Just right-click the file in the
Explorer and select the "Copy Name To Clipboard" command..

This new version supports copy of multiple filenames either as a space
separated list or as a CRLF separated list. DOS filenames (8.3) can now also
be copied as well as the URL encoded name and the UNC name for remote files.
Version 1.2 now supports a Copy command for filenames without including any
path, URL Encoding for multiple selections and <WORD> style encoding for
Microsoft Word, Microsoft OneNote,..."

I have found it extremely useful. It's freeware.

kind regards,
Ole

 

[ApeMan]

Since I've started doing my graduate research, I've used only a computer to
store and read all my articles (in pdf format), ie. no printouts. I find this
to be super convenient for highlighting, making comments, notes, etc.

However, I use Adobe Acrobat 7.0 for all this. I don't see why you would
want to use OneNote when Acrobat already has really excellent capabaility for
this sort of thing. And all articles are in pdf format anyway...

ApeMan