How start at the top rathern than the bottom of a page

[KCav]

I created a new page, added content, and then I created additional pages.,
and OneNote automatically saved the pages. When I return to an existing
page OneNote displayed the botom of a page. I would like to start at the
top. So I moved my cursor near the top of a page and clicked the cursor.
Then I went to another page and returned expecting to see the top of the page
displayed. .However OneNote still displayed the end of the page. Is there a
way I can change this? When reviewing the contents of a notebook I would
rather scroll down from the top of a page then scroll up from the bottom.


I created a new page, added content, and then I created additional pages.
OneNote automatically saved the pages. Now when I return to an existing page
OneNote displays the botom of a page. I would like to start at the top. So
I moved my cursor near the top of a page and clicked the cursor. Then I went
to another page and did the same thing. I found when I return to an existing
page OneNote displays the end of the page. Is ther any way I can change
this? I would rather scroll down then scroll up to review the contents of
existing pages.

-
KC

 

[Ilya Koulchin]

I created a new page, added content, and then I created additional pages.,
and OneNote automatically saved the pages. When I return to an existing
page OneNote displayed the botom of a page. I would like to start at the
top. So I moved my cursor near the top of a page and clicked the cursor.
Then I went to another page and returned expecting to see the top of the page
displayed. .However OneNote still displayed the end of the page. Is there a
way I can change this? When reviewing the contents of a notebook I would
rather scroll down from the top of a page then scroll up from the bottom.

OneNote saves the last position that you were viewing on a page.
However, that info is saved only if there is something else to save as
well. To force it to be saved, just make some change to the page, like
adding and deleting a space.

Ilya

 

[KCav]

Thank you.

I love using OneNote.
--
KC

OneNote saves the last position that you were viewing on a page.
However, that info is saved only if there is something else to save as
well. To force it to be saved, just make some change to the page, like
adding and deleting a space.

Ilya

 

[John Guin [msft]]

There is a powertoy at
http://blogs.msdn.com/johnguin/archive/2007/12/15/notebook-cleaner-and-privatizer-powertoy.aspx
which will reset the cursor position (Insertion Point) for all the pages in a
notebook. It may save you some time.

 

[KCav]

I tried added and delete near the top of the page, then I left and returned,
when I came back the top of the page was displayed.

Thank you.

 

[KCav]

Hi John,

I downloaded and installed OneNote Notebook Cleaner.

Thank you.

 

[Rainald Taesler]

I downloaded and installed OneNote Notebook Cleaner.

Thanks for the follow up.

The "Cleaner" is a nice tool.

But:
a) It takes quite some time until it's done.
Therefore I prefer the old workaround of just adding a "space" (blank)
somewhere in the top of a page;
b) Pls keep in mind that - without changing the Registry (with the
REG-file) - per default the information on "by whom" and "when" the last
change was made is stripped away.

Rainald

 

[Michael A]

Great tool. I used it to reset the insertion point back to the top--works
great.
However, how do I disable the stripping of the names? I don't see any
options for doing so

--Mike

 

[Rainald Taesler]

Great tool. I used it to reset the insertion point back to the
top--works great.
However, how do I disable the stripping of the names? I don't see
any options for doing so

In his Blog John Guinn says:
"This tool also includes a pair of registry files to toggle
cleaning the names on or off. If you only want to move
focus to the top of each page in a notebook, double
click the "DisableCleaning_Names.reg" file to leave
the author names intact. To re-enable this functionality,
click the "EnableCleaning_Names.reg" file. Cleaning
the names is the default."

Just do so.
The REG-files are contained in the ZIP-package.
Just extract them and click on "DisableCleaning_Names.reg" in order to
run it have the registry changed by this.

Rainald

 

[Michael A]

Thank you.
I missed that

--Mike

 

[hyde]

The powertoy, while not a solution per se, gets closer to where I need to be
and I thank the dev team for it.

The reasoning behind the behavior (i.e. of leaving the cursor at the point
of the last edit) seems to be geared at two things: shared OneNote usage and
edits (vs review.)
1. RE edits: If you want to review your notes, and you're going back and
forth between the mid-points of multiple pages? Forget it; as you're taken
back to the bottom of each page, you're train of thought is going to be
derailed. If I leave the cursor at a particular position, it's because that's
where I want to resume my viewing the next time around, or because I want to
add info right there *in the middle*.
2. RE shared usage: When you consider people who use OneNote by and for
themselves, where indicating the chronology of changes isn't necessarily
important, it seems to me that the utility of the behavior starts to become
dubious if not merely a hindrance.

I can use the space-backspace method to "bookmark" my workflow, but it would
be nice if the cursor-position behavior was a configuration option rather
than a de facto function.

I think that issue, and the fact that you can't collapse subpages, are the
only two wish-list features that I'd like to see for this otherwise awesome
app.