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[edit] Key Shortcomings
The Key Shortcomings section strikes me as extremely POV. OneNote also doesn't walk my dog or spank my toaster, should those be added as well? OneNote is a notetaking application, and Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not someone's wishlist. Comments? Jgw (talk) 15:29, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Tips
Anyone got any useful tips on how to use OneNote successfully? (This is not a request for advertisement and undue publicity). Perhaps these could be merged in to the main section of Onenote.
What do you mean by tips? I use OneNote for school every day and I can navigate through it very easily. I have a tablet PC and can write on it so i have experience with that also. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.9.123.91 (talk) 14:32, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
- Microsoft has quite a set of resources. Some are videos so you can just sit back and watch. For example:
[edit] why advertise? (vote)
I dont see why we need to advertise the 3rd party freeware similar to onenote. seems to me someone just trying to get some free publicity. My vote:
Remove it seems to be free advertising and is not needed. --Nytemunkey 20:32, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
- Here, Here! "*" I second the motion
- I Third the motion. The "freeware" is only applicable to the worst versions of the mentioned products. Remove!
i think its fine its just saying there are alteratives to this program, anyway a mention of a name is hardly free advertising. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.21.104.154 (talk) 08:17, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
I don't think it's necessary that a Wikipedia article be an advertising vehicle for a proprietary application, that although nice, is currently trapped on a single platform and tied to an excessively costly office suite. The mention of alternatives greatly increases the value of the article and I thank the contributors who have made such mention. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.75.108.130 (talk) 01:15, 22 March 2008 (UTC)
- Oh no, most of these do not meet the notability criterion, and those that do, do not need to piggy back on another software article for visibility. This is plain and simple advertising, and does not belong here. If you argue they were present as navigational aids, there are much better ways to accomplish that. Create a navbox that groups together all note-taking apps. Even now, the categories serve the same function. There is no need to make pov-pushed duplication of the same content. I am removing it. --soum talk 02:44, 22 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] History and versions section?
When was the first release for OneNote? For other MS programs there is a history and version section. If the program is too new to justify a separate section, this could be mentioned without a separate section. Martinalex 10:34, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
there is a version section in the article - all releases are covered. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.212.12.103 (talk) 04:51, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Standalone
Can One Note 2007 be used stand alone? That is, does one have to run office 2007 to benefit from one note 2007?
- Yes, OneNote 2007 can be used alone. You don't get the integration benefits of the rest of the suite (especially Outlook) but most of the OneNote features will work fine without the rest of the suite. ---B- 01:15, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
- At least in the 2003 versions, it must be used stand alone! It has its own unique installation. But like the person above mentioned, unless Office is installed too, it loses the integration benefits since it has nothing to integrate with. -Lwc4life 16:24, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Move to Microsoft OneNote
All apps from Microsoft Office suite have pages named without the word "Office". I think this one should be moved as well. Thoughts?--Pethr 04:17, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Platform Support
I don't want to get into a revert war about this but the last set of changes was unnecessary. "Started support on" is awkward phrasing. "OneNote 2007 ended support for" makes it sound like MS no longer supports Windows 2000 which has nothing to do with OneNote. Also the "ended support for" line is unnecessarily redundant since we already have a line that says that OneNote 2007 requires Windows XP SP2 or later.---B- 01:18, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Key shortcomings
I don't understand the section on lack of OLE support. It is written in a confusing way. Please rewrite it. Thanks! Stephenchou0722 20:19, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
[edit] References
I removed the "References" section because it didn't contain any references to OneNote - only seemed to be linked to sites for competing products. I'm fine with mentioning competitors, but having an entire section of links to their external websites seems too much like advertising to me. ---B- (talk) 20:56, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
- The "References" section still doesn't seem to fit to me -- this is a product page not a general "Notetaking software" page and adding the References seems to give a little more emphasis to products that aren't the one that is the subject of the page. Is there a Reference to OneNote on the Wikipages for those competitors? ---B- (talk) 18:07, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
I agree with the person above. This seems to be the common bias against MS products.
bit of a wikipedia idiot so i'm just going to post on the talk page that One Note does feature an auto calculate feature then spacebar it gives you the answer.70.240.214.13 (talk) 05:08, 29 December 2007 (UTC)
I removed the sentence refering to Memoranda because it is not even vaguely similar to Onenote.
[edit] PDF export
Key features lists a PDF export capability. Shortcomings lists lack of PDF export. Which one is it? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.58.96.135 (talk) 20:12, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
- “Does not natively support making notes to PDF documents” is confusing and I removed it. OneNote 2007 can export (“publish”) to PDF very easy. You can also import PDF document to OneNote (print using “Send To OneNote 2007”) and insert your notes there.--N Jordan (talk) 08:51, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Mac Alternative
Someone suggested that Microsoft Word Notebook view is a comparable (albeit limited) alternative to OneNote. I am a recent Mac switcher, and can attest that their exists no comparable alternative for OneNote on the mac platform - either by Microsoft or any other third party developer. I have examined every single possible option and can say without equivocation that nothing comes close. OneNote is unique, and I think is the greatest thing to come out of Redmond in a long time. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 150.101.201.122 (talk) 14:39, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
- Well, well. May I suggest Evernote for Mac http://www.evernote.com/about/download/#a-macwin . You will be surprised at its nice functionality and great features!! Redmond is lagging behind in many things, as always. ;-) EyeMD T|C 14:16, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
