RDBerge <
[email protected]> shared these words of
wisdom:
Thanks fro the reply. But I can not see what your lamenting is aiming
at :-( :-(
I noticed that the Beta version will deactivate February 1, 2007.
Will the final build be ready then?
For sure. ON2007 will ship with Office 2007 and the latter is
scheduled to be shipped to volume clients prior to December and the
retail versions will ship in the first quarter of 2007.
That the *full* usage (it will not be totally deactivated) of ON 2007
Beta will be ended in February reflects that by this time the new
version will be in the shops.
Since the 2007 version is not recommended for production
This more or less is a disclaimer. I have been heavily using the Beta
for several months now for "production". It's really stable now.
and since Word can not be imported,
For sure documents Word can be imported.
In several ways:
- Copy+Paste (keeping most of the formatting and leaving the results
editable in ON);
- printing into ON (producing a 1:1 image which is automatically
treated with OCR and indexed for the search with WDS [Windows Desktop
Search]);
- embedding a document (and icon in ON which will open the Word-file);
- linking the original Word doc.
It seems that you are mixing things. Word *Templates* (DOT-files)
which had been talking about so far cannot be used because they have
very special functionality for a wordprocessor.
I have my doubts this would be a useful product.
There's one-thousand-and one other things on top.
Just "doubting" without knowing what it's like is just like the blind
man discussing on colors ...
Additionally why won't a
document linked to OneNote automatically update when the linked
document is updated?
Seems you are mixing something again:
A *linked* document is *linked* which means that the *original*
document is opened. And that will always be in the latest version.
Different with *embedded* documents. Those stay in the state they had
when embedded.
It's ironic in one sense since I have several notebooks that would
benefit from being digitized and at the same time the only program
I've found does not have the functionality I need. I.E. taking a
document created in Word and importing it or updating information
from a linked document.
AFAICS the "OR"is the conceptual problem:
You can
(a) *import* documents into ON (static or editable)
OR
(b) *link* documents which may be changed/edited (outside of ON).
So here I sit at 1:17am in the morning with my notebook computer
debating the pro and cons to the 2007 Beta Version of program.
Sometimes it's better to just go to bed and think again in the morning
Downloading seems the logical answer. Not so much because of what
the product offers or the possible benefits. Rather the curiosity
factor.
Even if you'd throw it away later, the $ 1.50 for the download is not
much ;-)
Comparing OneNote and Word to Windows 3.0 and Windows 95
sounds more like a justification for what the program lacks.
Sorry, you misunderstood what I had wanted to say.
One cannot compare ON 2007 to Word 95 in as far as the state of
development is concerned.
I just used this image as a reference how big the difference is
between the first shot ON 2003 and the new version.
Additionally asking people to send you their notes it equally
foolish.
Why "foolish"?
Daniel Escapa - a leading member of the development team - asked for
"real" life samples in order to see what the users are doing with ON.
Only too understandable as ON is so versatile that no developer can
hardly imagine what the users are doing with it ;-)
A typical notebook for me not only would have sections, but
sub-sections.
"sub-sections" - what might that be ?
Again: A notebook can be divided with "Section Groups" (AFAICS
formerly called "Folders") as the first level and sections as the
second level .
For instance when I started setting up the notebook in
OneNote 2003 (before realizing there could be only one) I had a
series of sections at the top.
So you obviously missed the top level said:
Then each section would have a page
followed by a sub-page. Of course then I learned the sub-page had
to
have the same title as the main page. Not smart.
That's totally different in ON 2007. Each "subpage" is a normal page
with its own header and title.
It's just go a shorter tag and it can easily be moved on level up to
be a page.
No longer a strict relation to a "primary" page. And all pages can
easily be grouped and un-grouped.
It will be interesting to see what the 2007 Beta version will do.
'nuff said. Just try it out.
Rainald
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Newsbeitrag
Thanks for the tip Ben, but watching the demo it appears the same
problem is
present. The inability to create more than one notebook. Develop
a
template
notebook with several sections and form pages that can be opened
like a
template in Word.
To have only *ONE* notebook (which indeed was not too good <!!>)
was
only the case in OneNote 2003 (which was the first attempt to
manage
all the tasks related to a productive way of (a) taking notes and
(b)
adminstrate them.
In my usual scarcasm I could say that it was called *One*Note
because
of only being able to use *One*notebook <gbg>.
In ON 2007 ( the difference seems to be something like the
difference
between the hardly usable WinWord 1.0 and Word '95) one can have as
many notebooks as one likes. And one can open and close them just
to
one's needs.
It's all fine and dandy to have a sharepoint system and create a
"group
notebook". But that isn't going to help what I do.
Totally different in ON 2007.
The new version has a fantastic new system of handling shared
notebooks and notebooks on different devices (desktop and notebook
on
the road) with automatically synching all of the differences that
ocuured in between (in both directions).
One might compare the generation gap with that between Win 3.0 and
Win '95.
I'll download the product, but I have serious reservations the
"beta"
version is going to be any better than the 2003 version.
Don't behave like a man of small faith!
Donwload the 2007 Beta + the B2TR patch and play with it.
There's truly worlds between !!!
Rainald
