Inserting documents

Y

YouBetcha

Say an e-mail contains a hyperlink to a Word document, which is located at an
internet address. If I "send" the e-mail to OneNote, the hyperlink (but not
the document) is saved. But if I also want the *actual* document inserted
on the page, is there an easier way to accomplish this, without having to:

1) click on the link (which opens Word)
2) save the document to temporary location on my hard drive
3) close Word
4) open Windows exporer, find document
5) drag document to OneNote page, answer dialog box
6) go back to windows explorer and delete saved document from its temporary
location
7) close windows explorer

This is a lot of work. Is there an easier way? Thanks!!
 
J

Josh Einstein

No, there's no way short of writing an Outlook add-in to automatically
resolve a URL (which may be password protected, or may involve server
redirects, or may even return content that isn't a word doc) and embed it in
the OneNote page.

It's worth noting though that if the document is sent as an attachment,
those steps are not necessary since the document will be embedded in
OneNote. You should just have the person send the original as an attachment.
If they're using the new Word 2007 formats, the documents should be quite
small since they're internally compressed.
 
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