OneNote Stationery from Excel file?

[moregrits]

I am trying to create stationery for tracking food/nutrition similar to the
one that is offered in the templates section except mine is based on the
Weight Watchers POINTS system. I already have one designed in Excel but am
not having luck setting it as a stationery background. It 'imports' okay,
then I 'save as stationery, but I can't type my data on top of it. It just
sits there on the page as one block of data. (Service pack has been installed)

 

[Erik Sojka]

That behavior is by design. Importing an Office document into OneNote
inserts it as a picture on top of which you can write notes or annotations.
OneNote doesn't (yet) support OLE which might allow you to work in this Excel
document within OneNote.

Since it seems that this document is self contained, your best bet is to
keep it in Excel. You can insert a link to the file by dragging the document
onto a OneNote page from Explorer and choosing from one of the options that
appear.

 

[moregrits]

Thanks, the option, "Insert document as picture" worked. The only trick
there seems to be too much margin in the original document, but I think I can
finesse that.

 

[Erik Sojka]

OneNote uses the Office 2003 MODI Print driver to create the picture of the
document that is inserted into OneNote.

The MODI print driver will print the document with its default margin
settings as if you printed directly from Explorer.

You should check the Page Setup in Excel (or whatever application) for that
document to change the margins, save those changes to the document, and try
again in OneNote.