You can create OneNote notebooks for your Teams

As a Town in employee, do you participate in any of the following activities?

  • Manage complex projects
  • Attend conferences
  • Collaborate on multiple projects with the same team
  • Support multiple groups
  • Participate on a task force

If you are already familiar with Microsoft Teams, this tip is for you!

What is Microsoft OneNote?

OneNote is a digital notebook that automatically saves and syncs your notes as you work. It is a note-taking and personal information management (PIM) application for collecting, organizing and sharing digital information.

What is Teams ?

Teams is a messaging app that allows real-time collaboration and communication between two or more staff, groups, and meetings. The app also allows file sharing and document collaboration.

Your co-workers are using OneNote in Teams together to:

  • Prepare for and navigate their conference experience
  • Organize the Boards and Commissions tasks
  • Keep occurring meeting notes and related emails in one place
  • Manage and organize project documentation

Tip of the Day

Create a new OneNote notebook in Teams

Access OneNote for Editing

Adding content to the Teams OneNote notebook

Organize your workbook with subpages

Create a new OneNote notebook in Teams

  1. From your Teams appl, navigate to the desired Teams channel. The following displays the Information Architecture Group channel.
  2. Click on the (+) icon to add a new tab.
  3. Select OneNote.
  4. Select Create New Notebook (or select the default team notebook)
  5. Name your new notebook and select Save.

A new tab will appear in your Teams Channel.

Access OneNote for Editing

In the Teams OneNote Tab, you can access OneNote to modify in two ways.

  1. Access through banner
    Click on Click here to edit your notebook if the following banner presents itself:
  2. Access from menu options
    Select Open in App then Open in App.

Adding content to the Teams OneNote notebook

Add a New Section

  1. Click on Section to create new section.
  2. Enter Section Name and select OK.

Add a new page

  1. Add relevant pages by clicking on Page next to the + icon.
  2. Name your new page.

Add content to a page

Start adding content (I cut and pasted the following from a website with hyperlinks).

Insert PDF Documents

  1. From Insert menu select File.
  2. Select Insert File Printout to print the document to your OneNote Notebook.
  3. Choose a file from your local computer to Open and Insert.

    An image of the PDF and the attached PDF icon will appear in your Notebook.

Organize your workbook with subpages

  1. Create a new page.
  2. Name your new page.
  3. Right-click to and select desired Page to Make Subpage.

    Organize the entire notebook