OneNote Limitations

[Rebecca]

I am about to purchase a copy of OneNote, but before I do I would like some
information about the product's limitations. For example, in MS Word there
are limits on document size, number of footnotes, etc., etc. I searched
various websites, including the MS OneNote site, but I couldn't find any
specific information. Could someone please give me the link or detailed
information regarding OneNote limitations? Thank you.

 

[Chris H.]

Perhaps instead of a "list," reading suggestions made in this newsgroup
might help you. OneNote is pretty new, Rebecca, and still finding its way.
While a member of the Office "family" of products, it doesn't share all the
features of the more mature siblings. However, on a Tablet PC where it
takes advantage of the digital Ink, it is pretty darn awesome.
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Chris H.
Microsoft Windows MVP/Tablet PC
Tablet Creations - http://nicecreations.us/
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[Rebecca]

Dear Chris,

I think you misunderstood somewhat my question, and it's my fault of course
for being a little vague. Perhaps limitations was the wrong word to use. In
MS WORD there are built-in limits (!), such as the number of footnotes
permissible in a file, the number of bookmarks, the size of a file, and so on
and so forth (this information can be found in the help files under WORD
limitations). I'm sure the "limitations" (for lack of a better word) for
OneNote are documented somewhere (I couldn't find anything mentioned online),
but prior to purchase I would like to know what exactly they are. For
example, if I have a huge file of say 10 megabytes, and I want to insert
1,000 bookmarks, tabs, or whatever, I would like to know if the program can
handle such large files.

 

[Chris H.]

Okay. Here's a previous post from Benoit of the OneNote development
team which may answer some of your questions:
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Load/Save is very incremental. Hence, it is not much affected by the file
size. From memory, the file size limit per section is 2GB (don't hold me on
this!), but for practical reasons, I would highly recommend you stay way off
these limits.

Large file sizes will slow down backups (both internal to OneNote and your
own backups), be hard to move around, result in significant data loss if
ever something bad was to happen to it (like a hard disk problem) and will
impact perf if they are not stored locally.

A max of few hundred megs per section should be just fine. There's no limit
to the number of sections. Also, long pages do tend to be slower to load,
especially if it is just one continuous text region, so splitting in
multiple pages will help.

Hope this helps,
Benoit
OneNote Development.
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Chris H.
Microsoft Windows MVP/Tablet PC
Tablet Creations - http://nicecreations.us/
Associate Expert
Expert Zone -