Understand Notebooks vs Sections

[SLR]

Newbie and loving the technology. I need to understand the difference
between Notebooks vs sections.

Originally, create a new notebook with several sections. Now when I open
a notebook can't find the sections. Each of the sections is listed
individually as a section to open. So I open open up 5-6 key sections but
the File/new/Section and notebook is greyed out to where I can select.
Thoughts appreciated!

 

[Erik Sojka]

Once you create/open a Notebook you don't need to keep opening it and
closing it. Keeping that in mind may help with some of the confusion
you're having. All sections need to be part of a Notebook; you can't have
a standalone Section.

Otherwise, think of the paper metaphor that OneNote uses. On your desk,
you may have several different spiral notebooks. These notebooks might
have section tabss in them, and within each section are the various pages
where you put your notes. You would have different notebooks and sections
depending on how you want to organize your data.

So a product like this:
http://www.officedepot.com/a/products/588349/Office-Depot-Brand-Wirebound-
Notebook-8/

would be implemented as a single Notebook in OneNote, and each of its 5
tabbed sections would be new Sections within that Notebook.

If you still have it available, read through the "Getting Started with
OneNote" training guide which is part of your default OneNote setup for
more information.