Does anyone know how to get the ON printer driver “back”? It’s disappeared from my computer and no amount of Office 2007 repairing or uninstalling/reinstalling has restored it. It’s just gone, which reduces ON’s functionality quite a bit.

Any suggestions appreciated.

May I add here that adding keywords to the page is useful for finding the page later? This is useful when a page is needed for more than one projects and you don’t want to duplicate it in different sections or notebooks. I precede the keywords with ‘9999′, so that I will search for ‘9999 keyword’ to locate the all related notes. This is particularly useful for keywords that are generic. I’ve extended the system further so that ‘9999′ denotes projects and main headings, and ‘8888′ for topic keywords. You need 4 digits to avoid picking up too many date references.

BTW, no I haven’t had syncing problems or duplicate folders in the past.

James, when I add a new computer to sync with my Onenote notebooks, I closed and deleted the default notebooks that are installed. Then when I add the “OneNote Notebooks” folder to sync, it fills that directory with notebooks from my other computer(s). I then opened each notebook (Personal, Work, etc).

I tried having a central place to have my Onenote files and share from there. But it never worked out since I didn’t have a central server that’s always on. Plus it takes some work to get security down. Foldershare makes it easy since you don’t have to worry about security.

James, you are not suppose to use foldershare to sync your onenote notebooks. The best option is to share the notebook with yourself. This will avoid the problem you are having with the duplicates caused by foldershare

Rodfather, do you find that Foldershare creates duplicate folders in OneNote? That’s happening to me and I believe it’s because it thinks the notebook has changed on both computers and won’t replace one. I end up with an extra version of the notebook with a filename appended by the computer name. I may have to quit using Foldershare as it messes things up royally.

I also do absolutely nothing after entering something into Onenote. For me, it’s Onenote where I end up dumping everything. Web pages, Windows Journal notes, mind maps, emails, etc. I usually ‘print’ to Onenote to get stuff there.
Since I’m shuffling between my UMPC, desktop at home, laptop at work, I have foldershare.com sync my Onenote notebooks. It’s a great tool and syncing happens automatically in the background whenever it notices a change.

Thanks a lot James, very helpful. I will try to be more organized beforehand. Silly enough, I wasn’t aware about the possibility of having a notebook for each client. Smart.

Pam, I have lots of sections too but I don’t have a performance issue. I didn’t even realize the close section option was removed as I have always left the sections open.

James,

How do you feel about OneNote 2007 forcing you to keep all sections of your notebook open? I was surprised to find the ‘Close Section’ option from 2003 missing from 2007. Reading Microsoft’s webpage, apparently they removed it because some users closed some of their sections, but couldn’t find them again later. (Odd reason to remove a feature in my opinion). Still, not being able to do so means that OneNote can get quite large in terms of a memory footprint if you have a lot of sections in OneNote, which I have. Given how much you use the program, I wonder how you’re dealing with this change. Do you think it slows down the processing of the ink when writing. I find that OneNote comes to a halt from time to time when I’m taking notes, which has me considering using it less for fast-paced meetings. Would love to read your thoughts on the matter.