OneNote Hints and Tips
This article gives you information on some useful feature within OneNote.
OneNote is a very simple online tool for taking notes. Below are a number of features that will help you to use OneNote to capture all your ideas and organise your notes.
Using tags in your notes is a great way to visually call out and categorize important notes for follow-up (for example, to track action items after a meeting or lecture).
To create your own custom tags, click the Tags menu drop down on the Home tab (next to the text alignment buttons), and then click Create New Tag or use the ones provided


When you choose to insert a file into your notes, OneNote allows “Upload to OneDrive and insert link" option.
Storing file attachments in the cloud instead of the notebook, allows collaboration with others users more easily.

After inserting a file attachment into OneNote, you can double-click it to open and edit the file. Any changes you make will be saved to the original attachment without having to re-insert the file.
Start by clicking the File button on the Home tab. Next, select the file you want to embed, and then choose to insert the file as an attachment.

After creating a math equation in OneNote, select an action to solve the equation, and then click to show the solution steps. To have the Immersive Reader read aloud the solution steps, click the speaker icon that appears.
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