Importing Powerpoint Slides into Onenote is Terrible

[dewaaz]

Hi

I have a quick question as I am using Onenote for uni (college). When I try
to import powerpoint slides into Onenote, the lecture slides show up huge,
with no room on the side to make notes.

So I print the slides as handouts, with 3 to a page - yet Onenote somehow
mucks this up so that slides get cut off in the print preview.

I thought setting up my Onenote page setup to A4 would be a good idea, but
the imported slides (handouts) are never kept within the A4 boundaries
(they're moved down a bit to make way for the automatic heading), so if I
print, the bottoms (and tops) of slides keep getting cut off!

Is there any way that integration with Onenote and Powerpoint can be
improved? Say if I set a page in Onenote to be A4, then I print handouts (3
to a page) in Powerpoint, the slides will appear in Onenote as they would if
printed? Meaning 3 slides to an A4 page, and with room on the side to write?

 

[Ilya Koulchin]

I thought setting up my Onenote page setup to A4 would be a good idea, but
the imported slides (handouts) are never kept within the A4 boundaries
(they're moved down a bit to make way for the automatic heading), so if I
print, the bottoms (and tops) of slides keep getting cut off!

Is there any way that integration with Onenote and Powerpoint can be
improved? Say if I set a page in Onenote to be A4, then I print handouts (3
to a page) in Powerpoint, the slides will appear in Onenote as they would if
printed? Meaning 3 slides to an A4 page, and with room on the side to write?

Do you intend to print the handouts after inserting into OneNote? If
not, the best approach is to set the page size to auto. You can also
hide the title area (Format->Show page title)

Ilya

 

[dewaaz]

Thanks for the quick reply Ilya

I actually do intend to print the handouts - that is why I setup the page in
Onenote to A4, so I can see how what I'm noting down will print.

I found a fantastic addon by Jeff Cardon called Onenote Print Manager, that
does _almost_ everything I could have wished it do - I set it to print 3
slides to a page, but I want it to print 3 slides to an A4 page, not a
Onenote page (where each page gets its own tab!). I'm suprised such simple
functionality was left out of Onenote however. It would be nice if a small
update could be released for Office so that this could be properly
implemented into the program proper.

Thanks for your help anyway, much appreciated