OneNote Viewer ... where?

[Martin Folley]

Visitors to our church from the US came armed with a series of files for Ms
'onenote'. Nobody has ever heard of this, we all use MS Office. Unfortunately
they had difficulty with their presentation because of the software used.

I have looked for OneNote viewers, but can only find word, excel, powerpoint
etc.

What is OneNote? The web search seems to point to trial downloads (!!!!) and
MS office, but as office users ....

Where can I find OneNote viewers?

Thanks.

 

[Patrick Schmid [MVP]]

There are no OneNote viewers.
I'd suggest to give one of the trial versions a chance.

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[Martin Folley]

By trial I presume that it is somehow time limited, or has restricted
funcitions?

It does seem strange that I have to have a full version of this software
just to view it's files at a time of increased inter-connectivity, XML etc.

I am also cautious of installing unknown software onto a system ... what
will happen to the file associations within the registry for example?

There are no OneNote viewers.
I'd suggest to give one of the trial versions a chance.

Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP]
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Visitors to our church from the US came armed with a series of files for Ms
'onenote'. Nobody has ever heard of this, we all use MS Office. Unfortunately
they had difficulty with their presentation because of the software used.

I have looked for OneNote viewers, but can only find word, excel, powerpoint
etc.

What is OneNote? The web search seems to point to trial downloads (!!!!) and
MS office, but as office users ....

Where can I find OneNote viewers?

Thanks.

 

[Martin Folley]

Thanks for the reply ... so what is a trial version? Will I have to pay? will
it suddenly stop working? will it affect the other software that I used (esp.
Office)?

I do not want to edit.
I do not want to use significant disk space.
I do not want to pay
I just want to see the occaisional file ....

There are no OneNote viewers.
I'd suggest to give one of the trial versions a chance.

Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP]
--------------
http://pschmid.net
***
Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh (B2TR):
http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/09/18/43
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Customize Office 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/customize
OneNote 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/onenote
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Visitors to our church from the US came armed with a series of files for Ms
'onenote'. Nobody has ever heard of this, we all use MS Office. Unfortunately
they had difficulty with their presentation because of the software used.

I have looked for OneNote viewers, but can only find word, excel, powerpoint
etc.

What is OneNote? The web search seems to point to trial downloads (!!!!) and
MS office, but as office users ....

Where can I find OneNote viewers?

Thanks.

 

[Patrick Schmid [MVP]]

A trial is time limited. After its expiration, you can't really do much
anymore with the software.
If you just want to see notes, then ask the people to give you Word,
HTML or PDF files of them. If they won't do that, then you can't get
around installing the trial. Before installing, ask whether they are
using OneNote 2003 or 2007. If they are using 2007, the trial won't help
you. Post back in that case.

Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP]
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OneNote 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/onenote
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Thanks for the reply ... so what is a trial version? Will I have to pay? will
it suddenly stop working? will it affect the other software that I used (esp.
Office)?

I do not want to edit.
I do not want to use significant disk space.
I do not want to pay
I just want to see the occaisional file ....

There are no OneNote viewers.
I'd suggest to give one of the trial versions a chance.

Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP]
--------------
http://pschmid.net
***
Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh (B2TR):
http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/09/18/43
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Customize Office 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/customize
OneNote 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/onenote
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Visitors to our church from the US came armed with a series of files for Ms
'onenote'. Nobody has ever heard of this, we all use MS Office. Unfortunately
they had difficulty with their presentation because of the software used.

I have looked for OneNote viewers, but can only find word, excel, powerpoint
etc.

What is OneNote? The web search seems to point to trial downloads (!!!!) and
MS office, but as office users ....

Where can I find OneNote viewers?

Thanks.

 

[Derek Erb]

I use OneNote and so far love it.

It is a completely separate program and not part of Word.

You say in your message that they arrived with the OneNote files. Did
they also bring a computer running OneNote?

If so they can export their OneNote files as Acrobat files or they can
copy and paste their pages in to Word documents.

The trial version of OneNote is a free trial limited in time. It
allows you to try the program for free for a certain period of time.
After that time it would no longer work. But during that period you
could open the OneNote files and export them in the format you need.

Hopefully that helps...

 

[Martin Folley]

Many thanks for all the assistance.

Is OneNote popular in the States? It seems that it was assumed that we would
have it here in the UK, yet I am still looking for anybody who has even heard
of it. Is it only sold in the US?

Does anybody know why there is no viewer? I have not seen the application so
cannot appreciate what it does and why it is incompatible with other MS
software (rather like MS works). Is it a reduced version of office?

As to a time limited trial version ... I do not actually know when, and
sometimes even who, the visiting speakers will be ... so when do I install
the trial? I need a small app permanently on my laptop that at least allows
the data to be shown on the screen. An obvious need perhaps, and one that is
provided for with most other office file formats ... which brings me back
round to why not OneNote?

Again thanks for the help. I will just have to advise people not to use it
because it has compatibilty issues (not that naybody will ask becasue they
have never heard of it!)
Please feel free to treat all of the above as a rhetorical rant rather than
a request for help (alothough I am interested from a technical stand point as
an ICT teacher).

 

[Patrick Schmid [MVP]]

Is OneNote popular in the States? It seems that it was assumed that we
would

have it here in the UK, yet I am still looking for anybody who has even heard
of it. Is it only sold in the US?

I believe it is sold everywhere where Office itself is sold.

Does anybody know why there is no viewer? I have not seen the application so
cannot appreciate what it does and why it is incompatible with other MS
software (rather like MS works). Is it a reduced version of office?

It is not a reduced version of Office. Rather, it is a full-fledged
member of the Office family, but not shipped in a lot of Office packages
(this is similar to how Project and Visio are Office programs, but not
in most packages).
What it is a note-taking application. A rather good overview of OneNote
(2003 and 2007) can be found on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onenote

As to a time limited trial version ... I do not actually know when, and
sometimes even who, the visiting speakers will be ... so when do I install
the trial? I need a small app permanently on my laptop that at least allows
the data to be shown on the screen. An obvious need perhaps, and one that is
provided for with most other office file formats ... which brings me back
round to why not OneNote?

I guess the application hasn't been around yet long enough for MS to
actually invest into a viewer. Also, OneNote 2003 didn't really support
collaboration, so exchanging notes was more a limited thing. I wouldn't
be surprised if Microsoft decides to provide a viewer for the OneNote
version after 2007, which would be labeled OneNote 14 (version numbers
are kept consistent across all Office apps. 2007 is 12, and #13 is being
skipped) and come to market in 2011 or so.

Again thanks for the help. I will just have to advise people not to use it
because it has compatibilty issues (not that naybody will ask becasue they
have never heard of it!)

Ask them to export the files as MHTML or PDF.

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[junkfoodmonkey]

Many thanks for all the assistance.

Is OneNote popular in the States? It seems that it was assumed that we
would
have it here in the UK, yet I am still looking for anybody who has even
heard
of it. Is it only sold in the US?

I'm in the UK, it's certainly sold here. I got mine from Amazon, but
anywhere that sells software should have it or could order it. I used the
trial first and loved it. But if you don't want to buy it then you're out of
luck after the trial ends. It costs around £70.

I'd urge you to give the trial a go. You'll get 60 days use from it and
might find that quite apart from the files your visitors bring along that
you could find it useful too. Check out the OneNote section on Office Online
for an overview of it does and what you can use it for. You might be
converted!

Elizabeth

 

[Derek Erb]

I just found this and thought it would be of interest.

This is a quote from the sample file which comes with One Note 2007:

"Tip: For friends or colleagues who do not yet have OneNote, they can
install a free trial which acts as a viewer for OneNote files even
after the trial period expires. Find it here: <link for 2007 not yet
available"