Hyperlinks

[Axel Janßen]

Hey guys!

I try to find out, how the following two things work in OneNote:

1) Text with Hyperlinks in its "background" á la <a href="blah.htm">Nice
Page</a>
2) A dialog in which I can select a Excel or Word-File and which constructs a
link on that file. It should be a "background" link, too.

Is that possible? Thanks, Axel

 

[Erik Sojka]

1) Cannot be done directly in OneNote, but hyperlinks can be pasted in
from another application as part of HTML. You can copy HTML text from IE
for example and links will be retained. You can also craft hyperlinks in
Word, for example (by selecting text and pressing Ctrl-K) and then
copy/paste the resulting HTML into OneNote.

2) Cannot be done natively in OneNote but someone somewhere may be able
to cobble that together in a program that makes use of the SP1 import
API.

You *can* drag files into OneNote and a link can be created from that,
although it will be a visible link instead of a true <A HREF="> as you're
describing.

 

[Jeff]

This an amazing shortfall in OneNote that I am surprised people are not yelling about. You cannot store links other than as the URL text. In Word, you can have the display text be different from the URL. What is astounding is that you can paste such a link from Word and it retains the URL information. However, you cannot create or edit such a link. Unbelievable! Basically makes OneNote useless for storing links. Glad I only paid the academic price.

 

[Kathy J]

Jeff,
I see this exactly the opposite. The fact that OneNote stores the actual URL
in a way I can see makes it very useful for storing web information. I can
not only see what I was accessing, but where it came from. Helps when I need
to look for similar information - Having the full URL means that I can
search other areas of that site for information.

Just my two cents....

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This an amazing shortfall in OneNote that I am surprised people are not

yelling about. You cannot store links other than as the URL text. In
Word, you can have the display text be different from the URL. What is
astounding is that you can paste such a link from Word and it retains the
URL information. However, you cannot create or edit such a link.
Unbelievable! Basically makes OneNote useless for storing links. Glad I
only paid the academic price.

 

[Erik Sojka]

I would agree. Remember that OneNote is not designed to be a presentation
tool like other Office programs are. OneNote does not create finished
documents (with hyperlinks, etc.) like in Word. One does not create web
pages in OneNote.

 

[Axel Janßen]

I see your and Kathy's point, but: OneNote should offer both features - visible
URL and not visible URL, should it not? If you have - for example - a longer
text for yourself (no presentation ;-), long URLs lead to more complicated
reading (IMHO). So why don't they just give the user the choice, as it is done
in every other MS-Office-Program?

Thank you for your answers, have a nice day! Axel

 

[Owen]

Axel & Jeff - we feel your pain (really). FWIW there were moments during development of the SP1 release that I feared *internal* revolt (we're all OneNote users here) if we did not do both this and links between various parts of your notebook, but we couldn't make either of them fit. This really was a totally constraint-driven decision, not a prioritization decision. We'll get it sorted out next time around.

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I see your and Kathy's point, but: OneNote should offer both features - visible
URL and not visible URL, should it not? If you have - for example - a longer
text for yourself (no presentation ;-), long URLs lead to more complicated
reading (IMHO). So why don't they just give the user the choice, as it is done
in every other MS-Office-Program?

Thank you for your answers, have a nice day! Axel

I would agree. Remember that OneNote is not designed to be a presentation
tool like other Office programs are. OneNote does not create finished
documents (with hyperlinks, etc.) like in Word. One does not create web
pages in OneNote.

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[Owen]

Btw this was me (Owen) from the OneNote team. Forgetting to sign my posts today.

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Axel & Jeff - we feel your pain (really). FWIW there were moments during development of the SP1 release that I feared *internal* revolt (we're all OneNote users here) if we did not do both this and links between various parts of your notebook, but we couldn't make either of them fit. This really was a totally constraint-driven decision, not a prioritization decision. We'll get it sorted out next time around.

nntp://news.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.onenote/<[email protected]>

I see your and Kathy's point, but: OneNote should offer both features - visible
URL and not visible URL, should it not? If you have - for example - a longer
text for yourself (no presentation ;-), long URLs lead to more complicated
reading (IMHO). So why don't they just give the user the choice, as it is done
in every other MS-Office-Program?

Thank you for your answers, have a nice day! Axel

I would agree. Remember that OneNote is not designed to be a presentation
tool like other Office programs are. OneNote does not create finished
documents (with hyperlinks, etc.) like in Word. One does not create web
pages in OneNote.

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