set individual Background Color of Notes?

[Asus]

Hello,

I've got a new OneNote workbook with several pages.
On one page I've several notes and I'd like to set the background color of
each note to separate the notes visually and by themes. Is this possible?

 

[Grant Robertson]

I've got a new OneNote workbook with several pages.
On one page I've several notes and I'd like to set the background color of
each note to separate the notes visually and by themes. Is this possible?

Not really. You could put a picture of a solid color behind each of what
you are calling "notes" to achieve the look you desire. But remember,
that picture and the text box (what you call a "note") will always and
forever be entirely separate. They just happen to overlap. If you insert
more text which changes the size of the text box then you would have to
manually change the size of the picture.

This is not something I would like to mess with.

 

[Erik Sojka (MVP)]

The BG color of each Page can be set via the Page Setup Task Pane (File
menu | Page Setup | Page Color dropdown).

This setting changes the background color of the Page. The Page Tab
retains the color of the Section.

 

[Kathy Jacobs]

What about using tags to do this? You can set up tags with different
background/highlight colors and apply them to the individual paragraphs of
the tabs...

(If you need more details, let me know.)

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[Kathy Jacobs]

Which version of OneNote are you using? It shouldn't matter, as I have done
this in both versions, but thought I would ask anyway.

More details on how to do it

Bring up the Customize My Tags task pane. Create a new tag using the Add
button. Give the tag a name such as "BlueHighlight". Set the highlight color
to blue. Just to be sure it works, give it an icon too. Click OK to save the
tag.

If using OneNote 2007, for ease of use, move the tag up into the first nine
tags. To do that, select it in the task pane and use the arrows at the
bottom of the task pane to move it up to the ninth position in the list.

Go to one of the notes you want highlighted. Select the note. Press Control
and 9 or select the tag from the list to apply the tag. The background of
the selected text should turn blue and you should see the icon to the left.

I am not sure why your "Remember for later" tag didn't work. It should have.
You also shouldn't need to set an icon (I just tested without the icon and
it worked fine).

What did you see when you applied the tag?

--
Kathy Jacobs, Microsoft MVP OneNote and PowerPoint
Author of Kathy Jacobs on PowerPoint
Get PowerPoint and OneNote information at www.onppt.com

I believe life is meant to be lived. But:
if we live without making a difference, it makes no difference that we lived