MS Office Beta Notes

This is a side-blog where I intend to keep all of my notes from Beta testing new versions of Office. This will keep them all in one place for future reference. I started this with Office 2003, and am bringing it back for the 2007 version. This is not an official Microsoft site, this is just the ramblings of one IT guy.

Saturday, May 03, 2003

One note of confusion

More playing with OneNote this evening. I think I am beginning to understand the Notebook/folder/page/section/subpage terms a little bit. Basically when you first open the app you're presented with your Notebook, which has 3 folders, general, quick notes, and meetings. When you create a new quick note using the taskbar icon, it gets shoved in the Quick Note folder. I created a couple of lists in the general folder. Using it as an outliner is definitely a strong possibility, since the lists pretty much took outline form by default.

It reminds me of Access in a couple of ways. One, changes are saved as you go, there's no "save" option per se. Once you enter a list, for example, the list is there until you delete it. The other is that you obviously need to think about how your notes are going to be organized before you start using it, much like an Access database. You can rearrange and cut/paste to change it, but it would save you quite a bit of work to plan ahead.

Still not convinced that this version is going to be easy for non-techie people to deal with.