Opening OneNote document in Office App

[AA]

Hi!
I use Office 2003 at work and I don't have OneNote installed.
I received a OneNote document over email. How do I open this document in
Word 2003?
Or for that matter, in Excel or PowerPoint?

Thanks!

 

[Ben M. Schorr - MVP]

Hi!
I use Office 2003 at work and I don't have OneNote installed.
I received a OneNote document over email. How do I open this document in
Word 2003?
Or for that matter, in Excel or PowerPoint?

Thanks!

Did they send it to you as a .ONE file or as a webpage? Can you ask the
person who sent it to publish it to a MHT file you could open with Word?


--
-Ben-
Ben M. Schorr, MVP-OneNote/Outlook
Operations Coordinator
Stockholm/KSG - Honolulu
Microsoft OneNote FAQ: http://www.factplace.com/onenotefaq.htm

 

[AA]

It came as .one file. The person who sent it is traveling so getting an MHT
is out. Any other way to do this? Doesn't Microsoft provide converters for
OneNote and Office?

 

[Chris H.]

You said you had OneNote installed at home, but not at work? The normal
Office installation rules apply to OneNote, too: You are allowed to install
both on a desktop or portable computer (laptop or Tablet PC) for your use
only. If that were to apply, it would solve the problem for you.
--
Chris H.
Microsoft Windows MVP/Tablet PC
Tablet Creations - http://nicecreations.us/
Associate Expert
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[Ben M. Schorr - MVP]

No, there aren't any converters. You ONLY got it as a .ONE file; not as
an HTML e-mail also?

It came as .one file. The person who sent it is traveling so getting an
MHT
is out. Any other way to do this? Doesn't Microsoft provide converters
for
OneNote and Office?

--
-Ben-
Ben M. Schorr, MVP-OneNote/Outlook
Operations Coordinator
Stockholm/KSG - Honolulu
Microsoft OneNote FAQ: http://www.factplace.com/onenotefaq.htm

 

[AA]

Hm. I just noticed the body of the email. I thought I received only the
attachment, but maybe the attachment contents are in the HTML email.
I guess this solves my problem for now. Thanks, Ben!

But this gives rise to another concern about compatibility across
productivity applications from Microsoft. I'm sure they had their reasons
behind the logic, but I now have second thoughts about the 'seamless
integration' and 'backward compatibility' aspects of Microsoft software.
Or is there someone here to correct me?

 

[Erik Sojka (MVP)]

What do you mean? OneNote is in its first version, so there's no
"backwards compatibility" to be concerned with, and there are already
ways to transfer data between programs.

It really doesn't make sense to natively convert between Office types.
Each Office program has its own purpose. Why would you want Word to
natively open up Excel files?

The converters available for a particular product allow you to translate
to/from competing similar products (i.e. Word Perfect <-> MS Word) or
between different versions (i.e. MS Word 2002 <-> MS Word 2003).

Can you clarify what you mean?

 

[Ben M. Schorr - MVP]

Well, it doesn't much matter what format you use if you send a document
with a proprietary document format to somebody who doesn't have the
software to open that format you're going to have problems.

Try sending a WordPerfect document to somebody who doesn't have
WordPerfect though -- you'll get the same results. Yes, you can use Word
to make an effort to convert the document to Word format but in my
experience if there is any complex formatting in that WordPerfect document
the results will be less than pleasing.

Future versions of Office, which have been promised to use XML as the
default file format, will get away from the proprietary formats.

That's just the nature of such things -- the HTML is the open format for
now.

As for backward compatibility I don't think OneNote has made much pretense
in that direction. Most of the office integration features require Office
2003 and I don't think there was any expectation, outside of HTML/MHT,
that OneNote documents would be acessible by other products, especially
older versions, of the Office suite.

Hm. I just noticed the body of the email. I thought I received only the
attachment, but maybe the attachment contents are in the HTML email.
I guess this solves my problem for now. Thanks, Ben!

But this gives rise to another concern about compatibility across
productivity applications from Microsoft. I'm sure they had their reasons
behind the logic, but I now have second thoughts about the 'seamless
integration' and 'backward compatibility' aspects of Microsoft software.
Or is there someone here to correct me?

--
-Ben-
Ben M. Schorr, MVP-OneNote/Outlook
Operations Coordinator
Stockholm/KSG - Honolulu
Microsoft OneNote FAQ: http://www.factplace.com/onenotefaq.htm

 

[EMRhelp.org]

Well, it doesn't much matter what format you use if you send a document
with a proprietary document format to somebody who doesn't have the
software to open that format you're going to have problems. Try sending
a WordPerfect document to somebody who doesn't have
WordPerfect though -- you'll get the same results. <<<<

Untrue. Wordperfect uses XML documents or RTF documents and those can
be opened on many applications.
As well, for the vast majority of documents, Wordperfect .wpd files
open easily in Word 2003/etc. The severity of the "exchangability" of
..one files vs. .wpd files is pronounced. If someone sends you a .one
file and you don't have OneNote you are Dead in the Water. There are
lots of ways to read .wpd files.
default file format, will get away from the proprietary formats. <<<

Are you kidding ? Do you really think MS is heading away from
proprietary formats ? Highly unlikely. They will use a bastardized
format of XML that will lock you into Microsoft XML.

 

[Ben M. Schorr - MVP]

with a proprietary document format to somebody who doesn't have the
software to open that format you're going to have problems. Try sending
a WordPerfect document to somebody who doesn't have
WordPerfect though -- you'll get the same results. <<<<

Untrue. Wordperfect uses XML documents or RTF documents and those can
be opened on many applications.

Yes, that's what I said.

As well, for the vast majority of documents, Wordperfect .wpd files
open easily in Word 2003/etc.

Not if there is any complex formatting in the document it doesn't. Trust
me on this one, I spent several years working with a firm that had to do
WP to Word (and back) conversions on a regular basis. Through several
versions of each product. Raw text worked well enough, but the formatting
was sometimes so badly wrecked that the secretary would either have to
completely reformat the entire document or, on rare, occasion, print, scan
and OCR the document into the other product.

The severity of the "exchangability" of
.one files vs. .wpd files is pronounced. If someone sends you a .one
file and you don't have OneNote you are Dead in the Water. There are
lots of ways to read .wpd files.

Depends upon how much of the formatting you want to keep.

default file format, will get away from the proprietary formats. <<<

Are you kidding ?

No.


--
-Ben-
Ben M. Schorr, MVP-OneNote/Outlook
Operations Coordinator
Stockholm/KSG - Honolulu
Microsoft OneNote FAQ: http://www.factplace.com/onenotefaq.htm