Two Questions About Notebook

[David Enzel]

I plan to use Notebook a lot and have two questions:

I added a Note flag and now want to delete the flag. Can't figure out
how to do it. Is this possible?

Is there a way to quickly add the current date and time to the
notebook in different color than the main text (say in Blue)?

Thanks for any help!

 

[JE McGimpsey]

I added a Note flag and now want to delete the flag. Can't figure out
how to do it. Is this possible?

One way:

Click on the Note Flag button in the Note Flags pane of the Formatting
palette.

 

[JE McGimpsey]

Is there a way to quickly add the current date and time to the
notebook in different color than the main text (say in Blue)?

You could certainly use a macro. This quick and dirty one will apply a
direct formatted time stamp:

Public Sub InsertDFTimeStamp()
Const DTF As String = "dd MMMM yyyy hh:mm:ss"
Dim nOldColor As Long
With Selection
nOldColor = .Font.Color
.Text = Format(Now, DTF)
.Font.Color = wdColorBlue
.Collapse wdCollapseEnd
.Font.Color = nOldColor
End With
End Sub

I'd prefer to use styles:

Public Sub InsertSFTimeStamp()
Const DTF As String = "dd MMMM yyyy hh:mm:ss"
With Selection
.Text = Format(Now, DTF)
.Style = ActiveDocument.Styles("TimeStamp")
.Collapse wdCollapseEnd
End With
Selection.Style = ActiveDocument.Styles("Default Paragraph Font")
End Sub


Where the TimeStamp style is a character style with a blue font color.

Assign the macro a keyboard shortcut. Then you can use the macro in
Notebook Layout view.

 

[David Enzel]

Thank you very much for the very helpful responses! I don't yet know
how to create a Macro but I'm sure I can learn how to do that. I'll
check Help in MS Office. This is a great list.