OneNote Web Application

You can now create OneNote notebooks through web browsers and have other people to view, edit and collaborate anywhere. All notebooks created online will be saved to SkyDrive so you will need to have a Windows Live ID.

OneNote Web Application is free, just like other similar live service Microsoft has delivered over many years (hotmail, messenger). To get start with OneNote Web App, go to http://office.live.com and logon with your Windows Live ID. OneNote Web Application has familiar OneNote interface so you don’t have to learn it.

Sync to SkyDrive

(This feature is only available in OneNote 2010 RTM) When you creating new notebooks, you can save them to SkyDrive so they are available to you everywhere. You will need to upgrade notebook files to OneNote 2010 file format as only 2010 format is supported by SkyDrive.

Collaboration Improvement

There are many enhancement in OneNote 2010 that improves collaboration.

• Green highlighting unread changes. The pages contain unread content will have bold text in tab and all unread content will be highlighted in green.
• Author highlighting. Author name will be highlighted right to the content.
• Recent Edits highlights what changed recently and what is new in yellow.
• Version control. OneNote 2010 will keep version of every change that has been made and allows you to restore to older revisions. (Note: this requires OneNote 2010 file format)

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How to synchronize OneNote and SkyDrive

1. On your PC, open OneNote 2010.
2. Go to the Notebook you want to enable sync, click on File > Share
3. Choose your Notebook and then click on the Sign In button and enter your Live ID(aka MSN/Hotmail/XBox ID)
4. Once you sign in, click on the Share Notebook button in the lower right. It will upload your notebook to your Skydrive
5. Now notebooks will be automatically synced among different OneNote clients if they are online.

Access it anywhere – from another PC

On OneNote 2010 desktop client, click File –> Share you will find a link of the shared notebook, sent it to another pc and open it in OneNote 2010, you will be asked to sign in with Live ID.

Update at 12/1/2011, Microsoft has released a free update for OneNote 2010 which allow you to open which open OneNote documents stored in SkyDrive from OneNote 2010 menu directly, without having to navigate to SkyDrive site or going to another pc client to copy the notebook share link. The detail of the update can be viewed here.

Access it anywhere – from browsers

Go to Office.live.com and sign in with your Live ID.

Access it anywhere – from mobiles

Download OneNote from App Store and install it. Sign in with your Live ID and then you start sync notebooks. Read OneNote for iPhone for more information.

Some more tips

In order to sync OneNote 2010 notebooks to SkyDrive and use OneNote Web Application, you will need have Internet Explorer 7 or later version installed.

• Windows XP with IE8
• Windows Vista with IE7 or IE8
• Windows 7 with IE8

Also notebooks files from OneNote 2007 needs to be upgraded to OneNote 2010 file format as only 2010 format is supported by SkyDrive. You can convert old notebooks to 2010 format with following steps

1. File –> Info –> Setting –> Properties
2. Click ‘Convert to 2010’ button and press okay.

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When you creating New Notebook in OneNote 2010, you can now save it to SkyDrive directly. To get start, you will need to have a Windows Live ID, and sign in when you are asked to. Notebooks will be automatically synced among different OneNote clients if they are online.

You can also create other types of office documents on Office.live.com directly, including Word, Excel and PowerPoint

Troubleshot Tips

We are sorry. This service is currently not available

This is because you are using a pre-release version (either BETA or RC). OneNote Sync with SkyDrive only works with OneNote 2010 RTM edition. Upgrade to OneNote 2010 and you should no longer see this message.

Unable to connect to Windows Live SkyDrive

Open IE, go to IE Internet Options, clear browse history, passwords, cookies. And then retry.

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To rearm Office 2010, type in the following from an elevated command prompt:

“C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft shared\OfficeSoftwareProtectionPlatform\OSPPREARM.EXE”

If it’s 32-bit edition of Office 2010 on a 64-bit operating system, run following instead:

“C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\microsoft shared\OfficeSoftwareProtectionPlatform\OSPPREARM.EXE”

You should see a message Microsoft Office Rearm Successful if rearm succeeds. This will reset the activation Office 2010 expiration and make it good for another 30 days. You can do this up to 5 times which means you can get 180 days free trial in total.

Note: You might need to close all opened Office 2010 applications before running the rearm command.

You can download a 60 days trial version of Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010 at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/ee390818.aspx

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• 32 bit version works on both 32 bit and 64 bit windows operation systems. But 64 bit version Office 2010 must be installed on 64 bit windows operation systems.
• You can’t upgrade from 32 bit Office 2007 to 64 bit Office 2010 directly, you have to uninstall existing 32 bit Office products prior to install 64 bit Office 2010. (It’s okay to upgrade Office 2007 to 32 bit Office 2010 on either 32 bit or 64 bit operation systems)
• You can’t run 64bit and 32bit office products side by side. For example, you can’t have side by side installation of 32 bit OneNote 2010 and 64 bit Outlook 2010
• Some of 32bit Office Add-Ins might not work on 64 bit Office 2010.

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This is because there are still pre-release Office 2010 products installed in system. It could be BETA or RC version of Office 2010 products.

To get rid of this error, simply go to your Control Panel/Programs list and remove all Office 2010 products (including Visio, SharePoint Designer) listed with version lower than 14.0.4763.1000. Once all pre-release Office 2010 products are completely removed from your machine, you will be able to install Office 2010 successfully.

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I am happy to see that all bugs I hit in Outlook BETA are all fixed in RTM.

OneNote: Unread Highlighting cannot be cleared

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Update

22th April – Office Professional Plus 2010 is available to download for MSDN and TechNet subscribers. This is the first release of Office that contains 64 bit edition. The RTM build number is 14.0.4673.1000

It’s recommended to install the 32 bit version Office 2010 due to compatibility issues however if you still want to try 64 bit version keep these in mind.

32 bit version works on both 32 bit and 64 bit windows operation systems. But 64 bit version Office 2010 must be installed on 64 bit windows operation systems.

• You can’t upgrade from 32 bit Office 2007 to 64 bit Office 2010 directly, you have to uninstall existing 32 bit Office products prior to install 64 bit Office 2010. (It’s okay to upgrade Office 2007 to 32 bit Office 2010 on either 32 bit or 64 bit operation systems)
• You can’t run 64bit and 32bit office products side by side. For example, you can’t have side by side installation of 32 bit OneNote 2010 and 64 bit Outlook 2010
• Some of 32bit Office Add-Ins might not work on 64 bit Office 2010.

Resource

• The Office 2010 product guides provide an overview of what’s new in your favorite Microsoft Office programs and a deeper look at benefits across all Office 2010 programs, as well as Office Web Apps and Office Mobile 2010.

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Turn off OneNote System Tray Icon

Go to File, click options, and then click display tab, uncheck Place OneNote Icon in the Notification Area of the Taskbar.

Note: Turn of OneNote icon in taskbar also turn off  OneNote Snap Tool, if you wish to use Windows key + S to bring up OneNote Snap Tool to capture screenshot, you will need to have option Place OneNote Icon in the Notification Area of the Taskbar marked.

Update 5-22 The equivalent in OneNote 2007 is Go to Tools, and click Other and then uncheck Place OneNote Icon in the Notification Area of the Taskbar

Turn on OneNote System Tray Icon

Change Place OneNote Icon in the Notification Area of the Taskbar option back to marked will get OneNote System Tray Icon back.

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OneNote is unable to start. This may be caused by insufficient hard drive space or by insufficient write permissions for OneNote’s notebook cache files in you user setting folder. Try to delete any unnecessary files from your computer and then try starting OneNote again. If this message persists, contact your system administrator. Error code: 0x45D

Solution for OneNote 2007

1. Open explorer and go to folder %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\OneNote\12.0\
2. Rename OneNoteOfflineCache.onecache to OneNoteOfflineCache.onecache.bak
3. Start OneNote again.

Note: you might need to mark view hidden files and folders to see the folder in step #1.

Update

May 17 – Some of you ask how to fix this in OneNote 2010 so here is it. For OneNote 2010, change the folder in step #1 to

%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\OneNote\14.0\

and the rest steps are same.

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The answer is NO, if the PowerPoint presentation file is opened in full screen Side Show mode, screen save will never get trigged. However, it must be Side Show mode. If you have presentation opened in edit mode, and the laptop is idle longer than screen save timeout threshold, screen save will still get triggered and lock the screen.

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