Tips and tricks for the OneNote Windows Storage app

This post was written by Daniel Chandra, program manager in the OneNote team.

If you are new to Windows 8, you probably noticed, that the OneNote application looks and feels very different from other versions of OneNote. How are you looking for? What happened to the menus? The new Windows should avoid distracting you with commands that you do not need, but all that may change a little intimidating at first. Do not be afraid! In this blog post we will learn how to use the OneNote application from the Windows store. These tips and tricks can be used other Windows store apps on most. If you OneNote yet, download it now and the consequences- not it's free!

Instead of the traditional menus and toolbars, the OneNote Windows memory app uses so-called app bar, which appears when you right-click mouse button or swipe your finger in from the top or bottom of the screen. You can see the example in OneNote:

The app bar is contextual, meaning that you see different commands, depending on how you open it. For example, if you see with the right mouse button or cross blow (more on that later) to a page in the navigation pane of OneNotes you specific commands for the page, as you delete it or fixing it to your Start menu. Various commands shown when you drag your finger from the top or bottom edge of the screen.

OneNote added the app bar with a unique selling point, the radial menu, you find not called in most other Windows store apps. Try this: type text in OneNote, highlight it and press the round button with an A in the middle. See a menu that looks like:

In this context, the radial menu offers options, on the text, which you selected have applied, such as changing the font or copy and paste. Press the purple buttons on the outer edges of the menu, and see even more choices. Just like the app bar the radial menu is contextual and displays different commands, depending on how you it--try for example to open, to open the radial menu, notice without text to select, and the difference.

In the past, the various applications had their own way of doing things; only, because you knew you in Microsoft Word look like didn't knew you like in Firefox to search. The new Windows solves this problem the stimuli bar, with a single, consistent access to common functions such as search, sharing, and settings in each Windows Storage app. To open the stimuli bar, move your mouse to the bottom right corner of the screen, or you have a touch screen, swipe just your finger in the right side of the screen.

 

Play with charm bar and look at everything that you can do! For example, searches the search button within the app that you just opened. Meanwhile, the share button share information on another app; for example, in OneNote to share your notes to a friend email. In applications that support printing, you will find this feature under the button devices. (Sorry, the OneNote Windows store app doesn't support printing yet, but rest assured that we have heard there are requesting your feedback.)

As already mentioned, the app bar with contextual commands brings you with the right mouse button on an object with the mouse. But how we bring up the contextual app bar with touch? It's simple: Use the cross-swipe gesture. In OneNote, stroke from left to right on the name of a notebook, section, or page appear in navigation. This opens the app bar and displays features in connection with the item, which you cross stolen. Lay using many other Windows Storage apps, so this is a really useful gesture!

The new OneNote Windows store app brave reinvented for modern computer technology and contains many important improvements. However, it is undeniable, that is quite different from previous versions, and we know that the change can be a little scary. We hope this blog post your transition a little easier and helps you the most out of OneNote and make all the other Windows store apps!

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Garage series: Real adoption tips, tricks, and secrets of the new Office

The live broadcast is over. But you can still play at www.microsoft.com/garageto see.

Watch connection, including early adopter customers and leading Office engineers as we are with well-known technology analyst, author and blogger, Paul Thurrott, and other special guests.  In this special episode of 60 minutes our adventurous host of less well-known adoption secrets reveal new Office-touch and Lync experiences, and more.

Make sure you mark your calendar for new episodes , and learn more under www.microsoft.com/garage you can additional resources to discover and see the complete archive of all previous garage series shows.

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Tricks from Word Expert Hilary Powers

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If Hilary Powers can teach editors tricks about using Word, then we ordinary folk can definitely benefit from listening to her. Hilary's the author of Making Word Work for You, a handbook for editors, and the maker of creatures out of felt.

As an editor, I collaborate with a lot of people and so continually use Track Changes. If you know how to use it, your back and forth with co-workers, or in my line of work, with authors, speeds up getting a document from first draft to final draft.  Here are my tips:

The settings you choose for Track Changes apply only to your version of Word - so don't bother making rules about what people should do. You can recommend choices about colors and balloons, but what one reviewer does with those settings has no effect on anyone else.  

Setting the color to "by reviewer" is the only way for you to get different colors for different reviewers on your computer. However, that delivers you to the Surprise Party Department: the author of the first change Word encounters in a session almost certainly gets red, the second is probably blue, and the third more often than not green. Then six other colors - some quite readable, others noxious - appear for the next six reviewers, after which #10 starts over with red. If you don't like the color assigned to someone with a big presence in the document, close Word and reopen it, opening a different file first; that will give you a new lucky dip.

Replace logical units - a whole word instead of a letter or two; a whole sentence instead of every other word - to make it easier for others to see the effect of a change. The easiest way to get a replacement for a whole word is to select the offending letters and type over them; the tracking will show the whole word deleted and retyped.

Don't track changes in formatting unless you absolutely need the knowledge; it cruds up the revision marks and turns rejecting a change into a nightmare. The setting actually works in Word 2010, but unlike other options it's document-specific. I keep an icon on the Quick Access Toolbar to run a recorded macro that turns off format tracking.

Protection for tracked changes works as advertised in Word 2010, really letting you define whether or not reviewers can change the document by inserting comments and adding or deleting text (which will be tracked). In Word 2003, you could write macros to approve or reject changes even though protection was in place.

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Customize! 5 table of contents tricks

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The Word 2010 gallery makes adding a basic table of contents quick: Click the References tab, click Table of Contents, and then click the gallery table of contents you want.

But what if you want more? What if your table of contents needs to provide different information--more levels, or fewer levels? What if you want a table of contents at the beginning of each chapter? What if you want to change the font?

Here are some of the ways you can customize your table of contents.

Quick reminder: Before you start, be sure you've applied styles to your headings. If you want to use a custom style, skip ahead to #4. You can always scroll back to catch the first three tips.

Click in your table of contents. Now click the References tab, click Table of Contents, and then click Insert Table of Contents. (You're going to replace the existing table of contents with the one you want.) In the Show levels box, type the number of levels you want to display in the table of contents.

After you click OK, Word asks you whether you want to replace the table of contents. Click Yes.

Click in your table of contents, and then press Alt+F9. You'll see a field code that looks something like this:

{ TOC \o "1-3" \h \z \u }

The \o switch determines how many levels are in the table of contents. Change the numbers in the parentheses. For example, if you want to show only two levels, change "1-3" to "1-2".

To add separate tables of contents, you add a Word bookmark to the chapter or section (or a separate bookmark to each chapter or section). Then you add that bookmark switch to the table of contents code.

Step through the details in Add a table of contents for each section.

Apply the Heading 1 style to your section headings, and use a different style for the other headings. Click the table of contents, and then press Alt+F9. In the field code, add \n "1-1", which means no number for level-1 headings.

The field code now looks something like this:

{ TOC \o "1-3" \n "1-1" \h \z \u }

Step through the details in Add sections to a table of contents.

If you want to use a level-1 heading but you don't want it to look like the default heading style, you can create your own heading style and use it for your table of contents.

First, format the heading the way you want it, and then select it.Click the Home tab. In the Styles gallery, click the More button, and then click Save Selection as a New Quick Style.

Give your new style a name, and then apply it to all the headings you want.Now, when you're ready to insert a table of contents, click References, click Table of Contents, and then click Insert Table of Contents.Click Options, and then scroll to find the name of your new style. Type the heading level you want it to have in the box, and then click OK.

(In this picture, TOCBody is the name of my new style.)

Click OK again to insert the table of contents.Click the table of contents (if you've already inserted one).Click References, click Table of Contents, and then click Insert Table of Contents. (Again, you're going to replace the existing table of contents with the one you want.)Click Modify, click one of the heading levels, and then click Modify. Click Format, click Font, and then make the font changes you want.

Click OK, and then click Modify again to make the changes for the next level. (You change each level separately.)When you're done changing the font for each level, click OK, and then click OK again to insert the table of contents.

-- Joannie Stangeland

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Learn Photoshop now - beginning Photoshop tricks

Selection of the colors in a picture turn quickly to any color in the color of foreground press I to activate the eyedropper tool and then click any color in your image. To change the background color of this color, press the ALT key and click on any color of your image.

Change the brush tip sizes quickly with a brush selected, simply press the right bracket "]" to increase the size of your brush, or press the left bracket "[" to reduce the size of your brush. "]"

The tool move and the arrow keys Getting used to activate the tool move through the keyboard is a gain of time. You can do this by using the shortcut, "V". Once you have the tool move enabled, you can use the keys on the keyboard to push a layer or selection in increments of 1 pixel. You can speed up things by pressing the SHIFT key with the key to reposition in 10 increments of pixels.

Hide your Palettes press Tab once to hide all your palettes. Press Tab again to bring them back. Press Shift Tab to hide all your palettes except the toolbar.

Zoom In & Zoom Out you can zoom in on your image by pressing CTRL and the sign more "" (Mac: command and the "" sign). Conversely you can zoom out by pressing CTRL and the sign less "-" (Mac: command and the "-" sign).

Navigating in magnified Images If you have lost your bearings when the zoom in on a large image, you can move quickly to specific views by using the following shortcuts: to define the point of view on the upper left corner of your image the key press. Press the end key to set the point of view on the bottom right of your image. To get full screen from the point of view press the key next Page. Press CTRL Page Down (Mac: command Page Down) to move the screen display a full screen to the right. Press CTRL Page Up (Mac: command Page Up) to move the screen display a full screen to the left.

Select only the Pixels on a layer is an easy way to select an object that is on a transparent layer to press the command key (PC: control key) and click on the layer with the object in the pallet layers. This ensures that only the opaque pixels (pixels are visible) will be selected with ants marching, instead of the whole layer.

Images of tile for better visibility when you simultaneously a bunch of files open in Photoshop, they cascade automatically, and it may be difficult to select individual windows in all the files overlap. To eliminate this problem, choose window > arrange > tile and all your open files will be rearrange themselves to be visible at a time. When you are ready to close the Windows that you do not have to spend time closing individually, use instead the shortcut to close all control Option W (Mac: command Alt W).

Get rid of the Welcome screen - and bringing this back when you open Photoshop CS you probably see a welcome screen with links to tutorials, tips & tricks and a set of color management help files. At a given time, you can stop this screen to come. You should see a check box at the bottom of the screen that you can click to hide the screen at startup. Later if you change your mind and decide that you want to appear once more, you can temporarily bring the screen by clicking on the Help menu and select the Welcome screen.

Cycle through all of your Open Documents sometimes you will want to find one of your open documents which is hidden, but navigate using only the menu window does help because you can not remember the name of the file. Instead press tab several times (MAC and PC) control scrolls in all your open documents.

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Ready to make the Photo magic tricks? Discover Adobe Photoshop 7

Adobe Photoshop 7 has certainly been one of the most effective catalysts in the media, entertainment and popular culture. It is not surprising people are flocking to learn how to use it. Adobe has already released several superior versions of Photoshop (the last being CS3) but Photoshop 7 remains popular with many users. The extras of the new versions is not this old version of Photoshop, but it still can kick up some magical fairy dust. Here are some resources online to help you learn Adobe Photoshop 7 quickly and easily.

Go to CBTcafe.com, where you will find free tutorials for Adobe Photoshop 7. There are a few tutorials with higher versions of feature, but the Photoshop 7 tips and tricks should give you a good start.

Another site that Photoshop beginners will be grateful for is Jay Arraich (Arraich.com). It is purely Adobe Photoshop 7 you don't get derailed by some very tempting bit, offering to teach you CS2 or CS3. The site will address obvious to you, but lessons are base - exactly what you need if you are a beginner.

A screen capture illustrates the tutorial clearly so that you get stuck in the mystery of the textual instructions. Arraich guides you through a very important overview of the Adobe Photoshop 7 window with its main characteristics and the menu section. The opening screen is numbered to help you identify what feature is for you to know exactly where to look when you take the Arraich tutorial.

Photoshop 7 has some hidden features that you may have missed. If you want to learn them all, go to Creativemac.com. It includes a guide written by Julieanne Kost that will allow you a Photoshop 7 secrets that will make even more easy image editing. If the first brush you have with Photoshop 6.0, this article will make the transition very rewarding.

If you have very little patience with texts, we suggest that you find Andrew Hathaway Adobe Photoshop 7, available in CD and DVD formats. This video tutorial guides you through Photoshop 7 any operation, which makes it ideal for people who have never used a software image editing before. To start includes the introduction of Photoshop 7, bases of the interface, use of pallets, image, imaging, the process window that you need to start.

The basics of tutorial part allows you to manipulate the color settings, the size of the image, the resolution and you taught in navigation tips. Once you've mastered the basics, the fun begins. Selection and masks give you access to the marquee tools and options, allowing you to use masking and transform tools. You will also learn how to use the magic wand cropping lasso color and brush tools.

This video tutorial is 11 hours of video lessons 151. It is compatible with Mac and PC and you can learn at your own pace or ignore lessons if you want.

Another site that proposes free Adobe PhotoShop tutorial is IDigitalEmotion.com. If you are a Photoshop planning 7 become a user of CS a day, this site is perfect for you because the tutorials are designed for advanced users. There are tips very useful for beginners and experienced users will have much to say on this site.

Choose text Photoshop 7 tutorials which include text effects, playing with the texture and backgrounds, creating interface, develop staining techniques and the manipulation of photos. There are also many video tutorials on the site for you to see exactly what is happening.

Mario Churchill is a freelance writer and has written over 200 articles on various subjects. A free photo shop tutorial and or buy an extraction of video photo shop tutorial of its Web site.