I have created a page using a title and a template. [...] It
appears that the template is limited to one physical printed page.
When the amount of text exceeds the bottom boundary of the template,
it will still appear in print preview but with a blank template
background.
Is there anyway to create multi-page notes that flow from one page
to the next and keep the template applied to the first page?
It appears that you have created a template that consists of a
background image and you want that background image to print on each
page. The only way to do that is to manually create multiple copies
of that background image one below the other. You can do this two
ways:
You can switch the original background image back to a regular image,
I can't remember the command. Then manually copy that image multiple
times down the page. Then set them all as background images. I have
not tried this so I don't know if OneNote will break the printed page
right at the edges of your background images or not. It may cut them
off randomly.
Another method is to keep a copy of that image file somewhere on your
hard disk and then "print" it to OneNote once for each page you think
you will need. then you can write on top of that. I do know that
OneNote will then break the printed pages right at the edges of these
"printed" page images when it prints to actual paper.
Unfortunately there is no way to have this all done automatically.
OneNote is primarily a tool for organizing random notes, not a word
processor or desktop publishing program. Exactly how things look on
the printed page does not seem to be a consideration. Whenever anyone
tries to make it more than it is designed to be they always run into
trouble.
Doubly unfortunate is the fact that many of the demos produced by
Microsoft are misleading. They make it look as if OneNote can do
things that it cannot. In some instances there are pictures inserted
which make it look as if you can do something directly in OneNote but
the whole thing is just a faked up picture that was obviously
produced using some other application then inserted into OneNote. In
many other cases the demos make it look as if one can easily align
text with ink or images all over the page. The problem is that they
do not stay aligned if you do almost anything else on the page. The
subset of features that are actually practical to use is rather
limited.
That said, I still keep all of my notes in OneNote and intend to buy
the 2007 version when it comes out. Even if it doesn't easily do all
that they say it will do, it is still the best thing for what I need
by far. You just have to get used to the limitations and take the
Microsoft produced Demos with a grain of salt.
