First opening OneNote 2007

Upon first opening of OneNote, it will ask you to upgrade the format of your notes to 2007, which supports multiple notebooks and just overall has a different way of handling things. So all my folders turned into Notebooks. Which is fine, I would have rather had that to begin with. I wasn't really happy with the way you had to navigate into a folder and then back out of a folder to get back to the "main screen" if you will. With multiple notebooks and an extra navigation area on the left of the screen, they've solved that. Lovely!

Not so lovely, the "upgrade" managed to pull in a couple of backup pages. OneNote 2003 had a setting that let you automatically back up pages. When 2007 imported them over, it treated those "backups" as normal pages. Not too good.

Also not too good, but I guess understandable, now that My Notebook isn't the default location, it's OneNote Notebooks, there are two copies of my notes! There's the 2003 version in My Notebook, and the 2007 copy in OneNote Notebooks. Only one opens when I open 2007. The other set opens when I open 2003. It might be nice if there was a way to synch them, or even export the 2007 notes if/when the beta period ends so I can go back to 2003 without losing everything I've done. (Of course I'll probably upgrade anyway, but it'd be nice to have that option. Perhaps in the full release there will be a converter.)

Overall though, first impression is really positive.


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