Sub pages

[Kim Rowe]

Sorry, I'm brand new to OneNote. Can you tell me what is the difference
between pages and subpages and why would I want to use a sub page?

Kim

 

[Kathy Jacobs]

Kim,
I use subpages when I want to group pages together. For example, when I am
preparing information for a meeting... In that case, I put my agenda page as
the "page" and all the reference pages as "subpages".

I know that students tend to use page/subpage groups to group notes when the
content becomes too long and unwieldy to navigate easily.

--
Kathy Jacobs, Microsoft MVP OneNote and PowerPoint
Author of Kathy Jacobs on PowerPoint
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[Kim Rowe]

Thanks for such a swift answer, but why not just open another page? When you
are using OneNote on screen you can just click the page tab on the right hand
side anyway, so I can't really see a benefit. Is there a relationship
between pages and subpages? Sorry if that sounds picky.

Kim

 

[JohnGoogle]

Apart from appearance I can't see the advantage either. You would have
thought that dragging and dropping a page group would move them all
together but it does not (unless you select all the pages in the first
place).

 

[Kathy Jacobs]

That's why I gave the example I did. The meeting prep scenario is one of
maybe 2 or three places I use the subpages. Another one is when I am doing
my budget... The monthly budget goes on a page and the receipts from on-line
payments go on subpages attached to that page.

I really use the sub-pages as more of a visual clue to me that stuff goes
together, not as a real way of grouping pages.

--
Kathy Jacobs, Microsoft MVP OneNote and PowerPoint
Author of Kathy Jacobs on PowerPoint
Get PowerPoint and OneNote information at www.onppt.com

I believe life is meant to be lived. But:
if we live without making a difference, it makes no difference that we lived

 

[Josh Einstein]

It's the OneNote equivalend of dogear'ing a page in a paper notebook. No
other reason other than for visual grouping. I use subpages all the time
instead of keeping very long scrolling pages of related information. I think
they are more for people who like the paper metaphor.