Microsoft Office OneNote 2007 Frequently Asked Questions

Office OneNote 2007 is a software program designed to help you manage information overload and work together more effectively. OneNote provides a single place to gather virtually any type of information, including text, pictures, digital handwriting, audio and video recordings, and more. Powerful search features help you to find any information quickly, including text in scanned documents or spoken words in audio and video recordings. Easy-to-use shared notebooks help teams work together from the same page, online or offline, and help ensure that everyone has access to the same information. Deeply integrated with the 2007 Microsoft Office system, Office OneNote 2007 helps people stay on top of everything and work together more effectively.

Office OneNote 2007 is for anyone who manages ever-increasing amounts of information and finds it challenging to work together with others on projects and processes. OneNote was developed to help individuals manage information overload and work together more effectively.

You can use Office OneNote 2007 to:

Gather everything in one place

Find what you're looking for quickly

Work together more effectively

Office OneNote 2007 provides a single space for gathering information that follows the metaphor of a paper-based notebook. In Office OneNote 2007, you can create multiple digital notebooks for different projects or activities, and create folders, sections, and pages within each notebook. With Office OneNote 2007 you can go beyond the limits of paper and pencil to incorporate pictures, drawings, audio and video recordings, and more in your notes. The intuitive design and familiar notebook metaphor of Office OneNote 2007 help you to easily organize this information to suit your needs. Powerful search features help you find information when you need it so you can do your work. And Office OneNote 2007 includes easy-to-use sharing tools that you can use to work effectively and efficiently with others no matter where they're located.

Office OneNote 2007 enables your employees to gather and centralize any type of information, find what they're looking for quickly, and share information and best practices with others. Office OneNote 2007 provides team-based virtual work environments that give people access to the same information so they can be more productive, make more informed decisions faster, and work together more effectively.

With Office OneNote 2007, teams can work together across physical boundaries, online or offline, and have access to the same information at the same time so that everyone is on the same page. Teams use Office OneNote 2007 to:

Find pricing and licensing information on the 2007 Microsoft Office System Pricing page.

Yes. Office OneNote 2007 is included in two of the 2007 Microsoft Office suites: Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007 and Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007. Learn more about what programs are available in the 2007 Microsoft Office suites.

Yes. Every copy of Office OneNote 2007 includes group sharing features such as shared notebooks and shared sessions.

See the system requirements for Office OneNote 2007.

No. Office OneNote 2007 works with desktop and laptop computers and Tablet PCs.

No. Office OneNote 2007 does not use server or database technology. Peer-to-peer technology is used for live sharing sessions, and shared notebooks are stored on network file shares like other shared documents or files.

Yes. Office OneNote 2007 has application programming interfaces (APIs) that you can use to add functionality to transfer data from users' notebooks to your company's business systems.

Resources will be posted on the Microsoft Office Developer Web site and MSDN.

No. You don't need a 2007 Microsoft Office suite to use Office OneNote 2007. It can be used either as a separate, stand-alone program or in conjunction with other Microsoft Office system programs. However, there are some enhanced features that customers can enjoy if they install both Office OneNote 2007 and other Microsoft Office system programs. For example, using Office OneNote 2007 with the 2003 or 2007 versions of Outlook enables two-way task synchronization between the two programs. Tasks created in Office OneNote 2007 will be added to your Outlook task list automatically, and vice versa.

Office OneNote 2007 can be used either as a stand-alone program or in conjunction with other Microsoft Office system programs which helps you to capture and work with information from all of the Microsoft Office system programs. You can:

Office OneNote 2007 includes new and advanced features that give you the ability to capture just about any kind of information—not just notes—in one place. New search functionality helps you find text in scanned pictures or documents and even spoken words in audio recordings. And Office OneNote 2007 has shared notebooks that help you work more effectively with your colleagues, whether online or offline.

New features include:

Yes. You will still be able to use your OneNote 2003 notes after you upgrade to Office OneNote 2007. However, because the OneNote file format has changed, all OneNote 2003 files will be read-only in Office OneNote 2007, until you upgrade the files. When you first start Office OneNote 2007, an InfoBar will appear that will give you the option of upgrading your notes. An easy-to-follow dialog box will walk you through the simple upgrade process.

Note  Office OneNote 2007 does not support backward compatibility with OneNote 2003. This means that after you upgrade your OneNote 2003 notes to the Office OneNote 2007 format, you will no longer be able to open these notes in OneNote 2003.

The final release of Office OneNote 2007 will be available in the second half of 2006.