OneNote for Windows 10

Start with a single notebook. You can create additional notebooks for different subjects or projects whenever you want.

1. Open OneNote for Windows 10.
2. Click the Show Notebooks button .
3. At the bottom of the list that opens, click the + Notebook button.
4. Type a name for the notebook in the Notebook Name box.
5. Click Create Notebook.

Aside from creating your own notebooks, you can open notebooks that someone else has created and shared.

1. Click the Show Notebooks button .

2. In the list that opens, click More Notebooks.

3. In the More Notebooks window, select any notebook in the list, and then click Open Notebook.

Don’t see the notebook you’re looking for? Click Add Account and then sign in with the account where your notebooks are stored.

OneNote lets you keep several notebooks open at once and it’s easy to switch between them.

1. Click the Show Notebooks button .

2. In the list of open notebooks, click the notebook you want to work in.

To return to the previous notebook (or any other notebook that you’ve opened before), repeat the preceding steps.

1. Click anywhere on a page and then start typing.

   As you type, a note container appears around the text, which lets you resize or move the note on the page.

2. Keep typing within the same note container, or click elsewhere on the page to create a new note.

In OneNote, you can add new pages to your notebook whenever you want. Each page can be given a title to make searching for information in your notebook easier.

1. At the bottom of the page list, click the + Page button.

2. When the blinking cursor appears on the page header, type a title or description for the new page, and then press Enter to start taking notes on it.

As you edit and change notes over time, the titles of some of your pages might no longer be accurate since you first created them. You can easily rename pages to better summarize their contents.

1. In the page list, right-click the page title you want to change, and then click Rename Page.

2. Type the new page title you want, and then press Enter.
   

Your notebooks are private unless you choose to invite other people to view or edit its contents.

1. Open the notebook that you want to share.

2. Click Share.

3. In the Share pane, select This notebook

4. Under Email invitation, type one or more email addresses in the box at the top, and then click Can Edit or Can View

1. Click Share to email an invitation

If you don’t want to share your entire notebook with other people, you can share a specific page.

1. In your notebook, open the page that you want to share.

2. Click Share.

3. In the Share pane, select This page

4. Click Create to create a Web link that you can share with other people.

5. When the sharing link has been created, click Copy, and then paste the link wherever you want to share it.

Follow these steps if you want to send a static snapshot of a page of notes or an entire notebook.

1. In your notebook, open the notebook or page that you want to share.

2. Click Share.

3. In the Share pane, choose whether you want to share a snapshot of This page or This notebook.

4. Click Send a copy.

5. In the Share menu that opens, select the recipients, or select the app where you want to share