Need Text Styles

[Roman]

You really need to incorporate text styles into OneNote. I don't use my
stylus that often, prefering to jsut type notes in the first place. But I
need a way to easily distinguish my notes from the text that I'm marking up
(for instance, if I'm making notes on a reading assignment).

I understand that the tags are somewhat intended for this purpose. But they
have their limitations. I'd just like to easily select some text and quickly
set the style rather than having to select the font, size and color
seperately.

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[Lyn]

I'm really surprised that there aren't more comments like this. Every time I
go back to using OneNote (it seems like such a great tool) I give up because
I cannot create subheads easily. How do people trying to organize their
thoughts write without subheads? Having to apply and remove formatting in
multiple steps between each subhead and its body text is just too tedious.
OneNote doesn't even have a format painting tool to use.

I've tried using tags (only applies colour and a symbol) and the outlining
tool (only changes indenting).

I wouldn't even care if OneNote offered just one set of styles for headings,
I would be so grateful for them. Does anyone know why this function has been
left out of OneNote?

 

[Rainald Taesler]

Sorry, Lyn, OneNote does not have formatting features like you would
like to have them.

OneNote is good for at least 1001 things. But it's definitely not a
fully blown wordprocessor.
I for one can easily get my thoughts organized without any headline
formatting <gbg>

But there's hope for you. David Rasmussen has recently published a
preview if some major features to appear in ON 2010:
"OneNote 2010 – What’s New For You"
http://blogs.msdn.com/david_rasmussen/archive/2009/07/15/onenote-2010-what-s-new-for-you.aspx

"Basic Styles" will be appearing in the upcoming version.

Rainald

I'm really surprised that there aren't more comments like this. Every
time I go back to using OneNote (it seems like such a great tool) I
give up because I cannot create subheads easily. How do people trying
to organize their thoughts write without subheads? Having to apply
and remove formatting in multiple steps between each subhead and its
body text is just too tedious. OneNote doesn't even have a format
painting tool to use.

I've tried using tags (only applies colour and a symbol) and the
outlining tool (only changes indenting).

I wouldn't even care if OneNote offered just one set of styles for
headings, I would be so grateful for them. Does anyone know why this
function has been left out of OneNote?

http://www.microsoft.com/office/com...842e-3694ecb79257&dg=microsoft.public.onenote