Setting the Notebooks Opened at Start Up

[Big Hammy]

Hi
I use Onenote 2007 to capture project specific information.

It's very useful however I'm having a problem.

I want to set the Notebooks that open automatically when I start OneNote.

Otherwise my old project notebooks open on start up

Can this be set in OneNote 2007? Or is there a work around for this?

Any help gratefully accepted

Regards
David

 

[Erik Sojka]

There are command-line options that can do this. You would have to modify
or create a new ON icon in your Start Menu or the Quick Launch Toolbar to
accomplish this.

Look in the online help system for a document called "Command-line switches
in Microsoft Office OneNote 2007" for full details and use the "filename"
switch to do what you're asking for.

 

[John Guin [msft]]

OneNote will open the notebooks you had open when you last exited OneNote.
it keeps track of these notebooks via a registry key (I wrote about this
here:
http://blogs.msdn.com/johnguin/archive/2009/07/09/a-registry-key-for-onenote-worth-backing-up.aspx).

If there are no notebooks listed here (for instance, if you right click each
notebook and select "Close Notebook" before exiting), then OneNote will open
the notebooks you have in \My Documents\OneNote Notebooks.

Could it be that you are closing all notebooks before exiting?

 

[Big Hammy]

Hi Erik

Thanks for the help on this I'll do some investigation into this solution
.... I've never worked with Command Line Switches so I'll learn something new.

 

[Big Hammy]

Hi John
Thanks for the feedback on this
It's strange when I close OneNote I use the standard click on the red cross
option. When I start it up I get a pop up asking me if I want to open the
closed project I keep trying to get rid of options being open a notebook or a
section or click on the red cross to close the message option which kills the
attempt to open the Notebook for this start up event.... but it irritates me
..... so

.... I will look at the registry key entries blog which also seems like a
very good option for resolving my issue.

Thanks for your help

 

[Rainald Taesler]

Thanks for the feedback on this
It's strange when I close OneNote I use the standard click on the red
cross option. When I start it up I get a pop up asking me if I want
to open the closed project I keep trying to get rid of options being
open a notebook or a section or click on the red cross to close the
message option which kills the attempt to open the Notebook for this
start up event.... but it irritates me .... so

To me it's still unclear whether you leave OneNote with all of the used
notebooks open or if you are closing the notebooks prior to exiting
OneNote.

Rainald