OneNote should have Word's commenting feature

[goeungurl]

OneNote is great except that they don't have a commenting feature. Perhaps
could integrate the function from Word? Unless... am I just being stupid and
not finding it?

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[Ben M. Schorr - MVP (OneNote)]

Well, in a manner of speaking OneNote *IS* a commenting feature. I mean
it's basically a repository for unstructured data so you can just
comment right on the page.

Can you be a little more specific about what you're looking for,
perhaps?

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[oistrakhan]

I agree with goengurl and not with Ben. If you have a blank space within a
note container you can put a comment in there (within a new container) but
for it to stand out you would have to color the font or highlight it. That is
a lot more work than the neat comment feature in Word.
If you have a block of solid text in OneNote and you want to comment on a
specific sentence in that - where do you put your comment? I suppose you
could shrink your note container, highlight the text on which you want to
comment, then put your comment in the 'margin' you have just created. But -
how much effort is that?! And you still haven't got a Word-like link from
your comment to the section of text.
Whenever I see swanky demos on OneNote on the web (e.g.
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/onenote/HA102342001033.aspx) they show
someone annotating a document by hand-drawing a line round something and then
handwriting a comment - in a gap on the page that is conveniently there. But,
in the real world, most of us don't use a Tablet or are just too stupid to
know how to make the most of OneNote. I am in both those categories.
I guess the answer is that we shouldn't expect OneNote to have all our
favorite bells and whistles from Word. For me, I long for Format Painter in
OneNote.

 

[minimus]

I second that.

I always read academic articles in onenote (I copy paste the whole article
from a pdf to onenote).
Then I highlight important sentences etc.
But I also want to write comments and I dont want to write them in line.
A comment feature could be useful.

But commenting in ON also sounds a bit weird I must say.
ON itself, as Ben says also, is a commenting program itself.
So I dont know if that would be accaptable by ms guys.

 

[Travis Spencer]

OneNote is great except that they don't have a commenting feature.

+1

 

[Ben M. Schorr - MVP (OneNote)]

You could use the drawing tools to draw a line from your text to the
comment if you'd like.

I don't object to adding a comment feature, just seems a little
extraneous in an unstructured data set like OneNote.

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