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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.
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| 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. Friday, May 02, 2003
Link dump From Microsoft's site: MS OneNote Community. OneNote Assistance. Office System 2003 newsgroups. (How come my ISP doesn't have the microsoft beta news groups listed? GRR!) Prevent Junk E-Mail with Outlook 2003 (We'll see about that claim!) 5 ways to communicate better with Outlook 2003 Others: Office 2003: Should you upgrade? Office 2003: Will this be better? Will Office 2003 lead to lock-in? (Unfortunately the answer isn't to be found in this article. The reporter interviewed someone from the Office 2003 development team and someone from OpenOffice, an Office competitor, to get two opposing viewpoints. Both have vested interests behind their statements, there's no independant thrid-party point of view..) Thursday, May 01, 2003
Intimidating OneNote is intimidating. Even something as simple as making a bulleted list gives you 30 some odd choices of what to use as your bullet. I can see where there's going to be a pretty steep learning curve on this if my users are going to get much use out of the program. I still think the potential is there for some nice things, but is the learning curve going to be too intimidating for them? I need to look for some really good tutorials on how to use this. Perhaps tomorrow. There's a storm rolling in, I should shutdown. Wednesday, April 30, 2003
Handy Word 2003 feature I haven't had any real long documents open in Word 2003 so I hadn't stumbled into this feature yet, but Steven gives the View/Reading Layout feature high marks. Save as HTML Here's an example of Word 2003's save as HTML feature. (It's one of the versions of my resume. Don't worry I took out all the address/phone number and company names.) I know in the past this feature hasn't exactly worked as well as you might have hoped, but, at least in this case, it seems to have worked fairly well. Update: looking at the source code it still seems like there's way too much code in there. But at least the page actually looks the way you'd want it to. :) Monday, April 28, 2003
OneNote quick questions Having taken notes with pen/paper for 30 years, it's a hard habit to break. :) Are people going to be able to take notes as quickly and comfortably as the old reliable pen/paper? Will the presence of a laptop/tablet prove too burdensome in some situations? For some types of business people? OneNote has some potential for note-taking on the road, in meetings, or on the phone. For it to truly take off on Tablets, and maybe be the thing that will eventually get Tablets to really take off, we need better handwriting recognition than that I've seen. Are we going to get that from MS? How well does OneNote integrate with the other applications? How easy is it to drop something into a Word document, for example? An email? Find the answers to these questions, and more, as we delve into this further. :)
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