Notebook View

[Charles Leung]

Are there any websites to provide information about notebook view of Word
2004? By comparing with OneNote for Windows, what are their differences?

Thanks,

Charles Leung

 

[Michel Bintener]

Hi Charles,
in addition to what Beth has said: as she correctly points out, notebook
view is nowhere near as complete as OneNote. (I should perhaps mention that
I have never used OneNote before, so the things I'm saying here are based
purely on what I've read about it.) Notebook View is a rather strange
feature that, up to now, has not convinced me completely. Think of it rather
as a nice-looking outliner than a real notebook program such as OneNote: you
can outline and rearrange your notes, organise them with tabs, flag them,
create Entourage tasks from within that view, add clips and pictures,
scribble and doodle (though in a rather cumbersome way), and one of the most
prominent features would be the ability to insert audio notes into your
notebook document.
You should also have a look at Matt Neuburg's e-book "Take Control of What's
New in Word 2004", which explains all these things in more detail. By the
way, Matt also suggests that if you use the notebook view, you should not
switch between views; this is likely to get you into trouble, since Word's
"regular" views have a number of features which are not supported in
notebook view. That's why you should follow his advice and treat a notebook
document as a completely separate document.
It's also important to know that Word 2004 will NOT be able to import or
export OneNote documents. My guess is that Microsoft does not have the
intention of releasing a version of OneNote for the Mac (though I'd really
like to see that), but the Mac BU recognised that some features are rather
nice, so they decided to introduce them into Office for Mac, and Word was of
course the only logical choice for it. Yet Word does not have the
flexibility of OneNote, which explains why notebook view is the way it is: a
good idea, and not a bad feature at all, but it does feel slightly awkward.

Michel

 

[Charles Leung]

Hi Beth and Michel,

It is so informative. Thanks.

Charles

 

[bigbubba]

I really would like to print the lines in notebook view in color on
laserjet, is there any workaround to do this

 

[John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]]

Answered in your earlier question

I really would like to print the lines in notebook view in color on a
laserjet, is there any workaround to do this?

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[JE McGimpsey]

I really would like to print the lines in notebook view in color on a
laserjet, is there any workaround to do this?

Don't know if you'd consider this a workaround or not, but I had a
client ask for this feature, and I cobbled up a poor-man's substitute.

I just redefined all the notebook styles to have pale blue borders, both
bottom and between. The blue lines only extend to the margins, and if
you want the lines to the end of the page you'll have to include blank
paragraphs.

Another downside is that, in order to have the blue lines extend to the
margins, the bullets were all on the left (while retaining the
appropriate indents for the text). Perhaps someone else can tweak it.

In any case, the template's here:

ftp://ftp.mcgimpsey.com/word/Blueline.dot