Hyperlinking feature suggestion

[Grant Robertson]

I often copy bits of text from one place in OneNote (where I have copied
the full text of an article) to another place (where I am building up an
outline to summarize all my secondary research in preparation for writing
a paper.) I like to make those small quotes into hyperlinks that refer
back to the full text of the article. This helps me keep track of where
everything came from so I can write my citations later. However, in order
to do this I have to go back and forth between the two pages in OneNote
twice. Once to copy the quote and once to copy and paste the hyperlink.
So here is my suggestion:

If I have text selected and right-click on it, give me the option of
copying the text with the hyperlink to the paragraph that contains the
text. Call it "Copy text with hyperlink." Then, when I paste the text
into my outline it will already have the hyperlink built in.

 

[Ben Schorr - MVP]

Hello Grant,

If I have text selected and right-click on it, give me the option of
copying the text with the hyperlink to the paragraph that contains the
text. Call it "Copy text with hyperlink." Then, when I paste the text
into my outline it will already have the hyperlink built in.

Good suggestion.

-Ben-
Ben M. Schorr - MVP
Roland Schorr & Tower
http://www.rolandschorr.com
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[EMRhelp.org]

I often copy bits of text from one place in OneNote (where I have copied
the full text of an article) to another place (where I am building up an
outline to summarize all my secondary research in preparation for writing
a paper.) I like to make those small quotes into hyperlinks that refer
back to the full text of the article. This helps me keep track of where
everything came from so I can write my citations later. However, in order
to do this I have to go back and forth between the two pages in OneNote
twice. Once to copy the quote and once to copy and paste the hyperlink.
So here is my suggestion:

If I have text selected and right-click on it, give me the option of
copying the text with the hyperlink to the paragraph that contains the
text. Call it "Copy text with hyperlink." Then, when I paste the text
into my outline it will already have the hyperlink built in.

not good, EXCELLENT suggestion.

 

[1viking1]

Grant,

I think all of us are hoping for this. It seems to me that this could
easily be written as an OneNote addon.

now, back to studying for finals...

erik

 

[Atisch]

Maybe I'm missing the point as I've only been using OneNote (2007) for a few
days, but I've already been doing what I think you're describing:

In order to make a hyperlinked outline like you describe, that is one that
contains links back to where each source is located in OneNote one just needs
to select a "title", or descriptive piece of the text, right click and select
"Copy Hyperlink to this Paragraph", return to the outline and paste it. This
will contain a link to the source. Often the selection serves just fine in
the outline, but if not, just select it, right click and select "Edit
Hyperlink" and change the wording of "Text to Display" then enter or click
OK. No need to return to the source a second time.

Am I missing something?

 

[Grant Robertson]

Maybe I'm missing the point as I've only been using OneNote (2007) for a few
days, but I've already been doing what I think you're describing:

In order to make a hyperlinked outline like you describe, that is one that
contains links back to where each source is located in OneNote one just needs
to select a "title", or descriptive piece of the text, right click and select
"Copy Hyperlink to this Paragraph", return to the outline and paste it. This
will contain a link to the source. Often the selection serves just fine in
the outline, but if not, just select it, right click and select "Edit
Hyperlink" and change the wording of "Text to Display" then enter or click
OK. No need to return to the source a second time.

Am I missing something?

That isn't going to be too very handy if you want to copy an entire
paragraph from one place to another in OneNote. The reason I copy entire
paragraphs is so I can see how the text will read when pieces from all
over my notes are put together. It is kind of hard to do that when all
you are looking at is a list of hyperlink codes. Your "solution" of
editing the text of the hyperlink would get pretty cumbersome if you had
to retype entire paragraphs from memory, don't you think?

 

[Grant Robertson]

If I have text selected and right-click on it, give me the option of
copying the text with the hyperlink to the paragraph that contains the
text. Call it "Copy text with hyperlink." Then, when I paste the text
into my outline it will already have the hyperlink built in.

I just realized that it would be even better to just insert a OneNote
style citation link indented under the pasted paragraph rather than to
make the whole darn paragraph one big hyperlink. This citation link
should be a link to the specific paragraph that the text was copied from.

 

[Ben M. Schorr, MVP]

In case I didn't already say so - I second this suggestion.