Considering OneNote purchase - help please

[Lisa - NH]

Hi. I was wondering what the program does so I was just checking it out.
I'd like some opinions.

I'm the Secretary/Treasurer/Membership Chairman of an American Legion
Auxiliary Unit. I have been using Word for the monthly minutes, etc. Each
year I create a new Word file for the minutes. Meetings are monthly and the
minutes usually only take up one page, sometimes two. I find it a pain when
I need to go to a particular month. I'm wondering if OneNote would be a
better solution. These minutes get printed monthly, read at the meeting and
then filed into a binder.

I also have other Word files such as the bylaws, roll call sheet, officer &
chairman lists, etc. Was thinking that creating one notebook that would
house all this information would be much easier than having all the multiple
files.

Do you think OneNote would be helpful? Is it possible to import the data in
to so that I don't have to retype it? My thinking would be to put everything
into OneNote and get rid of all the Word files.

Any & all comments welcome!
Lisa

 

[Sid]

Hi. I was wondering what the program does so I was just checking it out.
I'd like some opinions.

I'm the Secretary/Treasurer/Membership Chairman of an American Legion
Auxiliary Unit. I have been using Word for the monthly minutes, etc. Each
year I create a new Word file for the minutes. Meetings are monthly and the
minutes usually only take up one page, sometimes two. I find it a pain when
I need to go to a particular month. I'm wondering if OneNote would be a
better solution. These minutes get printed monthly, read at the meeting and
then filed into a binder.

I also have other Word files such as the bylaws, roll call sheet, officer &
chairman lists, etc. Was thinking that creating one notebook that would
house all this information would be much easier than having all the multiple
files.

Do you think OneNote would be helpful? Is it possible to import the data in
to so that I don't have to retype it? My thinking would be to put everything
into OneNote and get rid of all the Word files.

Any & all comments welcome!
Lisa

OneNote will be surely more practical.

In order to import your text from Word to OneNote the easiest way
would be copy and pasting them.

I suggest you to download a trial and try it, importing your Word
files (but not deleting them).

If you feel ok using OneNote, then buy it.

 

[Lisa - NH]

Hi Sid,

Thanks for your opinion. I did think about downloading the trial. I just
wanted to be sure of something first. Can I purchase the program from
anywhere to upgrade to the full version? I looked around yesterday and
Amazon.com had a good price on it and my husband has a store card through
them.
Lisa

 

[Sid]

Hi Sid,

Thanks for your opinion. I did think about downloading the trial. I just
wanted to be sure of something first. Can I purchase the program from
anywhere to upgrade to the full version? I looked around yesterday and
Amazon.com had a good price on it and my husband has a store card through
them.
Lisa

I think that's exactly what the trial is meant to be: I think you will
be asked to insert your serial number when you want to upgrade from
the trial to the full version. You can turn from trial to full version
also after the expiration date: while expired OneNote will continue
working, but will not let you create or edit existing notes but read
them.

I don't think that if you buy an upgrade you can not use the first
version: it doesn't make sense: you bought both the versions!

It does make sense if you change the product version: if you buy
Windows Vista 32 bit and then you change it to a 64 bit version (they
mail you with the 64 bit CD and the 64 bit serial), you got 2 serials,
but can use just one. That makes sense 'cause you bought just the 32
bit version.