ON Beta = Insert File As Printout

[Jim123]

Very handy feature. I especially like being able to search on text. The
problem is, this is kind of a counter-intuitive way to work (for me). Often
I'm in Powerpoint or some other program I'd like to 'print' to ON. I can do
this - but it doesn't create searchable text. I think the only way to do
that is from Inser/File as Printout - right? Or am I missing something?

 

[Patrick Schmid]

Hi Jim,

There should be no difference between printing directly from PPT or
using Insert/File as printout. Just to verify though, you did not have
or removed the send to onenote 2003 powertoy before you installed on
2007?
What happens if you right-click in a printout that you printed directly
from PPT? Do you have an option to copy the text from the printout?

Patrick Schmid

 

[Jim123]

So, I guess rebooting helped. I can now search, but it treats a Powerpoint
as one document. For example, if the presenation is 20 pages, and the phrase
I'm searching for appears more than once, it only lists it in the search
results once. I have to scroll through the document to find that it has
highlighted all the phrases found. Is that what was intended?

 

[Patrick Schmid]

As far as I understand the feature, the search task pane shows you on
which pages it found the term, but doesn't show you each hit on each
page. So the task pane should show any page only once.

Patrick Schmid

 

[Grant Robertson]

As far as I understand the feature, the search task pane shows you on
which pages it found the term, but doesn't show you each hit on each
page. So the task pane should show any page only once.

You realize, of course, that this is unacceptable. Especially since
OneNote inserts an entire document on the same page. Saying you can
search your whole notebook quickly is worthless if the user then has to
manually scan through looking for the highlighted words in a 75 or 200
page document.

Not good enough. Not good enough.

 

[Patrick Schmid]

Hi Grant,

I played with the feature here a bit. What happens when you press the
little arrow buttons that appear in the yellow search bar?
It seems here that this provides in-page navigation and switching
between pages seems to be something for the task pane. From how this
works here, I think the feature isn't completed yet in B2. I'll bug the
issue.

Patrick Schmid

 

[Grant Robertson]

What happens when you press the
little arrow buttons that appear in the yellow search bar?

I tried that too. It did not move through to the next search term on the
page. That would still be too tedious for a document that was more than a
few pages long. Acrobat shows all occurrances in context in the search
results pane on the right. OneNote should do the same thing. Otherwise
searching for what we need could turn into an incredibly laborious chore
that no one would ever really attempt once their Notebooks reached a
certain size.