All notebooks

[DonD]

When I started using Onenote, I had a link at the bottom that brought up
icons for ALL my notebooks. That is no longer selectable unless I hvae a
notebook open and then it only shows the open notebook. How do I get this
back?

 

[Rainald Taesler]

When I started using Onenote, I had a link at the bottom that brought
up icons for ALL my notebooks. That is no longer selectable unless I
hvae a notebook open and then it only shows the open notebook.

Exactly! This is the way it works.
The "All Notebooks" bar/icon only shows the *OPEN* notebooks.
Naturally so: How might the system know about any other notebooks?

How do I get this back?

Just open your notebooks <g>.

And then leave them open which is the basic way to work with ON.
Different from working with a wordprocessor or an Excel spreadsheet in
ON one does *not* close a notebook when done with it. One leaves all
notebooks open and only closes a notebook if it's foreseeable that it
will not be used it for a longer time.

HTH
Rainald

 

[Daniel Escapa [MSFT]]

Rainald, hold on a second please don’t beat up someone and let’s try and
understand his question.

DonD, in OneNote 2007 there used to be a button which showed you all
notebooks you had open in OneNote. It was a button which some people found
useful but many people did not and couldn’t even find it. In OneNote 2010
that button was removed and instead we saw people moved between
sections/notebooks/etc by using the new search feature (Ctrl-E) so people
did a navigation by search which is pretty awesome once you start using it.

Anyhow sorry for the change and I think this what is going on, did you
upgrade to the 2010 beta?

"Rainald Taesler" wrote in message

When I started using Onenote, I had a link at the bottom that brought
up icons for ALL my notebooks. That is no longer selectable unless I
hvae a notebook open and then it only shows the open notebook.

Exactly! This is the way it works.
The "All Notebooks" bar/icon only shows the *OPEN* notebooks.
Naturally so: How might the system know about any other notebooks?

How do I get this back?

Just open your notebooks <g>.

And then leave them open which is the basic way to work with ON.
Different from working with a wordprocessor or an Excel spreadsheet in
ON one does *not* close a notebook when done with it. One leaves all
notebooks open and only closes a notebook if it's foreseeable that it
will not be used it for a longer time.

HTH
Rainald

 

[Rainald Taesler]

Hi Daniel,
great to see you here again!

Rainald, hold on a second please don’t beat up someone and let’s try
and understand his question.

AFAICS, dear Daniel, you are mistaking things.
Pls read the dialog again (quoted below).

Me and beating up someone?
Seriously not.

And not at all in this case. To the contrary. I tried my best to help
Don with his issue:
- Don obviously asked a question on *ON2007*.
- He had wondered why the icon/bar for "All notebooks" is not functional
if there is no notebook open.
- I told him why this is the case. And answered his question.
- And as to me it seemed rather clear that Don so far does not yet
really get the optimum out of ON because he closes his notebooks (at
times all of them closed<!>), I explained that a basic thing in ON is
to leave the notebooks open.

I can't see what I might have done wrong in so far.

DonD, in OneNote 2007 there used to be a button which showed you all
notebooks you had open in OneNote. It was a button which some people
found useful but many people did not and couldn’t even find it. In
OneNote 2010 that button was removed and instead we saw people moved
between sections/notebooks/etc by using the new search feature
(Ctrl-E) so people did a navigation by search which is pretty awesome
once you start using it.

This is a TOTALLY different issue
Don did *not* complain about the situation under ON2010.
You mistook this.

Anyhow sorry for the change and I think this what is going on, did you
upgrade to the 2010 beta?

I don't think so as his question was undoubtingly based on the situation
in ON2007.

As you might remember there has been a discussion in the TP newsgroup
between us two on the new construction.
No doubt about the new search field being a really great improvement
(except the missing memory of recently used searches) . But this IMO can
not really replace the "All notebooks" feature with the possibility to
have a full map of everything open. IMO it's not too good that the old
thing was removed. There would not gave been any downside would it still
ne available.
it
Apart: I'm still wondering how you get to know what "many people" like
and what not. Such knowledge at least is not based on the discussions in
this group and not on the bug-reports and suggestions in Connect :-( :-(

But as said: these are issues totally different from the case given in
this thread.

Regards
Rainald