One Note: Hide text without deleting

[charhall]

Great feature would be the ability to hide text without deleting it. For
example, I am using One Note during a planning session, and one page includes
the agenda for the session. This was text pasted from a Word document that
was emailed to me by the organizer. I would love to have the ability to
"roll up" the portion of the agenda that has already occurred, without losing
the text or any notes I might have made in the body of the agenda, bringing
the remaining portion of the session closer to the top.

My suggestion would be that a user could click and drag to highlight the
text, the same as you would to copy or cut, then right-click the text or use
a toolbar command to "Hide selected text or object" and that text would "roll
up" just like a pulldown shade over a window. There would be a gray bar
indicating that there was hidden text there and the user could click on it to
"unroll" it, then click again to roll it back up.

 

[Mike Glen]

Hi Charhall

Just highlight the text and then Format/Font and select the background
colour (white) and it will disappear You could also drag it to the
bottom of the page.

Mike Glen

 

[Erik Sojka]

A workaround might be to put different parts of the agenda on subpages (with
a summary on the main page). You can then fill up each subpage with as many
notes as needed for each topic of the agenda.

I think something like this might be possible in a future version as OneNote
gets more Office-like and gets more HTML features (such as the collapsible
lists that one can do in HTML or DHTML).

 

[Andrew Watt [MVP - InfoPath]]

There is a low tech way to let you scroll your meeting information
now.

Use the Insert Extra Writing space option. Add enough white space
equal to about a screenful or a little more then type a single
character

That should leave about a screen full beyond the last meaningful part
of your meeting notes. If you don't type a character OneNote is likely
to reclaim the extra space.

Then ... simply scroll as far as you need. And the desired part of
your meeting information can be at or close to the top of the screen.

Andrew Watt
MVP - InfoPath

 

[Gary Mount]

The ability to hide text is already there in the form of outlining.
What you do is you increase the indent or demote a paragraph and if you
double click the higher level paragraph, the lower level paragraphs will be
hidden (rolled up as you say).
An icon with a square behind a square appears next to the collapsed items.
See "Expand or collapse an outline" in OneNote Help.