OneNote questions

[NickC]

I'm playing around with OneNote (2010 at home; 2007 at office). Couple of things I'm trying to do but can't figure out:

1. Is there any way to group drawing items similar to Powerpoint? e.g., if I use the pen drawing tool to create a diagram, each line shows up as an individual object. I'd like to group them so I can easily move them around easily. The help said you can select one, hold <SHIFT> and drag over to another. Sometimes that works but not always.

2. How does the selection box work in OneNote? I've noticed sometimes with pen drawing objects - when selected - will be surrounded by an object box similar to Powerpoint. Other times, it will be surrounded more like the typical text object of OneNote (i.e., with the little header bar). The text object selection box seems to be enabled just by hovering over the section but for drawings you have to actually click to get it to select?

[Welshjim]

NickC--Here is a tutorial for OneNote 2010.
http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/site...e_Tutorial.pdf
Even if it does not answer your questions, I think you will like to have it as other questions arise.

Here is a tutorial for OneNote 2007
http://training.vcu.edu/self_detail.asp?ID=259

[NickC]

Thanks for those links. I haven't yet found the answers to my questions, but as you said, they do have some great info!

[SuperSparks]

Do you have Visio at all? If you do, it is light years better than OneNote for diagrams. Not that I'm trying to run OneNote down, it's a fabulous program for note-taking, etc., but it's drawing tools are a bit primitive.

[NickC]

I don't have Visio but I agree - it's much better for diagrams. I'm not looking for a serious diagram software. Rather, I'm trying to use OneNote to replace taking notes on a paper pad/notebook as it was intended to do. For text, this is easy. But often times, a little diagram here & there enhances notes quite a bit. For this reason I was playing around with OneNotes ability to make these little diagrams using the pen tool, and that's when my questions came up. Like you said, maybe just have to live with the quirks!