Microsoft 365: OneNote (2023): Formatting Notes and Lists

Name: Microsoft 365: OneNote (2023): Formatting Notes and Lists
Author: Sharina Salter

Learn how to add, edit, and format content in your OneNote notebook

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Course: On-Demand

Hello, my name is Sharina, and in these lessons, you will learn how to format your notes in your OneNote notebook. In this lesson, you will learn formatting options on the Home tab. Here we are on our Home tab. We will get started by typing in information that we can then make formatting changes to. Okay, now that we have a line of text, we can go ahead and highlight it. And if you noticed, when you highlight a smaller dialog box opens, that looks similar to our font group commands. This box allows us to be able to format our text more conveniently because it's right here. We don't necessarily have to go all the way up to the format on the Home tab. So from here, we will go ahead and change our font. In order to change the font, you select the drop-down arrow in the font family group. I like a Comic Sans, it's a whimsical font, so I'm going to select Comic Sans, and I will go ahead and increase the size using the font size drop-down box, 36, just to make it big. And I will also go ahead and change the color. Black is automatic, I'm a fan of blues and oranges, so let's select orange. Once you're done, you can deselect or highlight your content and begin to create new content. If you would like to add a bulleted list, you would go back to your font group and select bullets, the drop-down arrow next to the bullet option will give you the bullet library to allow you to change the style of bullet that will be inserted once you select bullets. I'll select square, so as you can see, a square bullet was inserted onto my page. So let's create a list. So if you would like to have subtopics in your list, if you wanted to increase the indention or make it look like it is contained within that specific topic, you would select increase indent or simply select the tab button on your keyboard. So as you can see, when you do an increase indent or tab, it will change the bullet type. So you know, this is a separate subject of the topic above it. If you want to make it to where it's no longer a subtopic, you want it to be a main topic or you want it to be a main line in your bulleted list, you can always decrease the indention. If you want to add formatting to this list, remember, highlight your font group box will appear and you can make changes there. So let's select a different font family, let's select a bookman old style and we will make the font size just a little bigger at 12, and we want our list to be bold. So select bold if we wanted our bulleted list to look like other content that is already on our page, we can do so. So we can highlight our content. You can either select the format painter here or format painter here. The format painter takes what is highlighted, makes a note of all of the formatting changes that are within that highlighted content. And once you highlight new content that you want to apply the format to, it will apply it automatically. So you don't have to know which font color you selected, especially if there's a lot of content on a page, you don't have to remember which font family it was. You don't have to remember the color and the size of the font. The format painter will remember all of that for you simply by highlighting, getting format painter and highlighting the content you want to apply it to. If you would like to use one of the pre-made styles in one note, you simply highlight. And select the style that you are interested in. So right now the current style is a title, we'll make it a heading three. If you don't like any of these changes or you made the changes accidentally, simply click the undo button or if you realize, huh, I actually did like it, click redo and it will go back to how it was. If you would like to cut or copy or take information from another page within your notebook, you can do so. You would go to that page, highlight whatever the content is that you would like to cut or copy. So we'll copy it because I don't want to remove it completely from this page. Go back to the page. And we can either use our keyboard and hit control V or we can click paste to paste the copied information. Stay tuned for the next lesson where I will show you how to insert pictures and tables as well as perform additional formatting to your pages in one note. Thanks for watching.

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Course Description

The ribbon in OneNote serves as a comprehensive collection of toolbars positioned at the top of the window. The main purpose of the ribbon is to assist users in easily locating essential commands needed to complete various tasks. By familiarizing yourself with the different groups and commands available on the ribbon, you will develop a deeper understanding of the formatting capabilities offered within OneNote, such as inserting tables, pictures, lists, and content from existing files. These functionalities enable you to enhance the visual appeal and organization of your notebooks by incorporating diverse media elements.

In this course, we will explore the Microsoft ribbon and explain how to format the content on the pages in your notebooks. By the end of this course, you will be able to leverage the full potential of the ribbon and utilize its various features to enhance your note-taking experience.

What You'll Learn

Understand the importance and layout of the ribbon in OneNote
Locate essential commands and groups on the OneNote ribbon to complete tasks
Insert tables, lists, and pictures into your OneNote notebooks
Format page content using the Home tab and additional formatting options
Apply the Math Assistant to enhance your note-taking experience

Key Takeaways

The ribbon in OneNote is a comprehensive collection of toolbars positioned at the top of the window that helps users locate the commands needed to complete tasks.
Familiarizing yourself with the ribbon's groups and commands builds a deeper understanding of OneNote's formatting capabilities, including inserting tables, pictures, lists, and content from existing files.
Incorporating diverse media elements enhances the visual appeal and organization of your notebooks.
The course covers the Math Assistant and its benefits within OneNote.

Frequently Asked Questions

What does this OneNote course cover?

This course explores the Microsoft ribbon in OneNote and explains how to format the content on the pages in your notebooks, including inserting tables, lists, and pictures, and using the Math Assistant.

What will I be able to do after completing this course?

By the end of the course you will be able to leverage the full potential of the ribbon and utilize its various features to enhance your note-taking experience.

What topics are included in the lessons?

The lessons are Home Tab Formatting; More Than Just Text Formatting; and Additional Formatting and The Math Assistant.

What skills does this course help develop?

It supports skills in Document Formatting, Microsoft Office 365, Microsoft OneNote, Microsoft Planner, Notetaking, and the Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) - OneNote.