MC said:
By the way, I'm not really clear on what the Notebook View is intended
to do -- especially if you can't print it.
You can print the text fine.
I think it's more along the lines of a custom workspace designed for
certain functions, and the background notebook graphics are just
psychological and to signal that it's designed differently. It can
record audio, which the other views can't do. I don't use it a lot
myself, but I think it's easier to do hierarchical notes in--it
automatically applies bullets everywhere, you can collapse topics (which
I just noticed), supposedly you can create checkboxes to check off a
list (seen demonstrated, can't find myself).... In that way, it's
partially a step toward the notion of separate Words for separate needs
rather than trying to make a single Word one unwieldy all things to all
people.
Most people seem to be using it to take notes in class, with a tab for
each day or week, and except for reports of corruption, it seems pretty
nicely designed for that function.
Me, I can take organized hierarchical notes by applying heading styles,
but Notebook View gives you similar nicely browsable results without
having to learn anything about styles--and adds the benefits of audio,
and checkboxes. Also, I'm guessing it's easier to code those features if
they are somewhat separated from the rest of Word.