Font Size vs Magnification Size vs Text Box Size vs. Print Size

[Tier 3 Questions]

I am having trouble understanding the relationship between the font size, the
magnification size, the size of the text box and the print size.

In Word, because there is the concept of a page, I know what the limits are
(e.g 8.5 x 11). In Word, when you grow the size of a text entry or even text
box, you are still doing so within the constraints of the page.

I don't get the paradigm in OneNote. If I type further and further to the
right, how am I affecting the page size or printing. How about when I
magnify the page? What does this mean without the context of a "page?"

 

[Erik Sojka (MVP)]

Those concepts exist in OneNote but are not part of the default setup.
Word is designed around a printed page, but OneNote is not necessarily so.

If you go to File | Page Setup you can see that there is no default printed
page size. Changing that setting from "Auto" to a specific page size
("Letter", e.g. ) you can then match the OneNote content to a printed page.

Once you do that, the concepts of font size/zoom/etc. are the same as in
Word or other programs.


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[Tier 3 Questions]

Very helpful input. Now I get how to adapt a page paradigm.

In the absence of changing to a page paradigm, please tell me if these
assumptions are correct:
1. Magnification does nothing to how OneNotes print, just to how big it
apears on the screen.
2. If I allow text boxes or graphics to go 10x the size of my screen (off to
the right so that I must scroll to see it), when I print, will the printout
shrink to fit the 8.5 x 11 paper size that I am printing to?
3. If I put one word to the left margin vs. fill up my screen with text, how
does it figure out what to do when printing? Does it increase the size of
the single word ot the left margin or is there some assumption that at a
certain magnification level that what you see on the screen is what you get

 

[Ilya Koulchin]

Very helpful input. Now I get how to adapt a page paradigm.

In the absence of changing to a page paradigm, please tell me if these
assumptions are correct:
1. Magnification does nothing to how OneNotes print, just to how big it
apears on the screen.
Correct

2. If I allow text boxes or graphics to go 10x the size of my screen (off to
the right so that I must scroll to see it), when I print, will the printout
shrink to fit the 8.5 x 11 paper size that I am printing to?

That depends on the printing options. There's a "scale content to page
width" checkbox in print preview that controls this behavior.

3. If I put one word to the left margin vs. fill up my screen with text, how
does it figure out what to do when printing? Does it increase the size of
the single word ot the left margin or is there some assumption that at a
certain magnification level that what you see on the screen is what you get
on the printer?

Not exactly sure what you mean, but generally, the content that you have
will be printed such that everything fits. If you have text in the "left
margin", the left margin will expand so that the text can fit into it.
Although really, there is no concept of margins in OneNote. You can move
text to the left of the title, but that works exactly the same as moving
everything else to the right. When printing, OneNote will draw a
conceptual box around everything on the OneNote page, and the top left
corner of the box will correspond to the top left corner of the first
printed page.

Ilya