Update for Onetastic: Favorites and Custom Styles
An update to Onetastic which adds two new features is now available: Favorites and Custom Styles. If you noticed an "Update Available" button on your ribbon and came here, that is awesome, let me know if that is the case.
Favorites
Last update introduced a mini feature: Pin to Desktop. This was a button on the ribbon that would create a link to the current page on desktop. Favorites is an extension of that. The button is now what we call a split button, which has a top part to do the one-click action and the bottom part which is a menu:
Let's start with the menu and what the button does will be obvious after that. The menu allows you to select where to pin the shortcut: Desktop, as before, Favorites menu, or some other location. You can switch between them and the button will reflect this:
You can click on Browse... and then select a folder of your choice and that will appear in the list. If "Desktop" is selected, the feature will work as before and clicking the Pin to button will create a shortcut to the current page on the desktop. If you selected a folder via Browse... then the shortcut will be created there instead. (You can then create a toolbar for that folder in your taskbar for easy access). If you select "Favorites Menu" then the shortcuts will be placed in the Favorites part of the menu.
The favorites menu is a convenient way to access your frequent pages (or sections) and you can keep adding things there as you like. If you want to remove or rename the menu items, click on the Manage Favorites button at the bottom of the menu and that will open up the folder where these are stored, which is %AppData%OnetasticFavorites:
You can then delete or rename items here. If you already had pinned pages on your desktop you can move them here if you want them in your Favorites menu.
Finally a small feature is added to the top of this menu: Pin this Section. You can pin a shortcut to the current section, just like for pages, to either Desktop, Favorites Menu or to the folder of your choice. All of this will hopefully satisfy all kinds of scenarios about accessing your content faster.
Custom Styles
Second feature that is coming with this update is Custom Styles. I must admit that I didn't expect such a feature to be this complicated, as it took a lot of time to get it right. To give some idea, I wrote the favorites feature in an afternoon, whereas custom styles probably took more than two weeks. Also along the way I found several OneNote bugs, which is great because this gives us a chance to fix them.Anyway, let's talk about styles in OneNote. I do not care much about formatting in OneNote, as it is usually a place for me to capture information quickly and focus on content rather than style. For instance I am writing this post in OneNote but not formatting it there, once I am done with it I will then format it elsewhere for the website. Maybe for this reason, the style support in OneNote is very basic. There is a styles gallery which has a fixed number of styles and you cannot customize them or add new ones:
For instance I want to use "Code" style, which has a fixed-width font, but I don't like Courier New, I prefer Consolas, which means I can't use it because I cannot customize it. Word has extensive customizable styles feature and some people really want to have it in OneNote. Enter Custom Styles:
Another reason I decided to implement this feature was that it would go deep inside manipulating page content and I haven't done that before in an add-in. Image features like crop or rotate, is somewhat related but they deal with a very specific content type. Formatting in OneNote has a lot of components like font, color, bold/italic/underline/strikethrough, bullets/numbering, alignment, subscript/superscript, highlight and paragraph spacing. So Custom Styles feature is a way to capture a set of formatting applied to a piece text and then reusing it later.
The way you create new custom styles is this: You first style a piece of text as you want, then click on Custom Styles > Save Selection as Custom Style, which will display the following dialog:
First, this dialog allows you to give your custom style a name. You can also select a style you previously created and overwrite using the drop down. Second, the dialog shows all the applied style information on the selection and you get to choose which ones you want in the custom style. For instance in this case the selection had bold/italic, left aligned, Calibri 11 red etc. If you only want the style definition to be: Apply bold and italic, and not about the font, color etc. you can deselect all but the Apply Bold and Apply Italic. As you do so, you will see that the preview is updated. For example if you deselect Color (red), then the preview text will turn black. If this whole thing confuses you, you can as well ignore it all together and the results will most likely be fine. Once you are satisfied with your style definition, you can click OK and the new style will be added to the gallery, with the same preview you have seen in the dialog.
I added 17 styles with the installation and I did it all with this dialog. They include my own "Code" style with Consolas font :). I believe the way I implemented the dialog and style definition is very flexible, so you can create a style that only has certain style elements (e.g. just a bullet) and doesn't modify other characteristics of text, though it might be a bit confusing and seem complicated at first. So let me know what you think about this and your ideas on how it can be improved.
I also added Language to the style so you can choose to change the proofing language for the text with a custom style. This can also be used to get rid of red squiggles for things like source code. You can just create a style with Language = some language that you don't have proofing tools installed for, and OneNote will not be able to spell check.
Now that we created some styles, it is time to use them. This is the simple part, you just select some text and choose your style of choice and Onetastic will apply all the paragraph and formatting information you saved before. If you want to delete some of the custom styles you created or is installed by default, you can click on Manage Custom Styles at the bottom of the gallery and the same dialog will appear, but this time with a Delete button. You can select the style you want to delete and click on Delete.
OneNote Bug about Paragraph Spacing
I want to also talk about a bug in OneNote that prevented me from including paragraph spacing into this. The dialog shows spacing but it will always be disabled due to this bug. The bug is that OneNote will not tell an add-in about the font information of the text if the text has paragraph spacing applied. This means if you have a piece of text that is styled as Arial 10 red and paragraph spacing: 10 after, 10 before, OneNote will tell me the spacing info but not the font info. In fact it will tell me that the text is Calibri 11 automatic color. This makes things worse when you apply a style to part of a page, because add-in has to write back the whole page when you apply a style and if you have text with paragraph spacing they will be reverted back to Calibri 11. You may hit this if you are using paragraph spacing or if you copied content that has spacing from somewhere else to OneNote, so don't be surprised. If applying a custom style doesn't do what you expect it to do, just let me know and we can identify where the problem is.One final note is that I did not make use of progress bars in this feature to cover the reading and updating page, as I did in image crop and rotate features, as I expect this to be used in pages that contain mostly text and in that case the operations are quick enough. Let me know if you hit any performance problems.
Well this is all for now, enjoy the new features. They are results of hard work and I tried to make them easy to use, functional, flexible and pleasing. Thanks go to everyone who gave me ideas and feedback.
When I apply it, it just applies the default style with blue letters and calibri font to the whole page.
Created a custom "code-style" white text with black background.
when I mark some commands and assign format, this part ist formatted correctly.
if I mark some other text-parts and assign this format, the new part hat white on black, the other part gets gray on white. doing more formatting, all "old" formatted parts are gray only the last ist white on black.
Thx for the Tool it´s great. Maybe this issue could be corected
How can I create a keyboard shortcut for a Custom Style? For standard styles there are shortcuts Ctrl+Alt+1, Ctrl+Alt+2, etc. Can you please add this option or let me know how to add it? I don't see a way to edit Custom Style macro other than just selecting a different style, font, etc.
Thank you!
Thanks!
Is there any fix oder solution?
You can't practically edit the styles, because they are greyed out, no way of changing them, which is quite bad alone. You can't create one from scratch, you've got to select text to base it on.
The worst thing is, however, that even if you manage to create a damn style somehow after working around the gimmicks, then you can't apply it. Installed 32bit version, on a 32bit version OneNote, tried it, it worked once, never again. You can click the damn styles all day and night and not a single font or color will change. Nothing.
Utter crap. Just like OneNote. Microsoft can't implement a feature in 8 years that they literally already have in almost every single software they have created so far.
Hmm, not sure if this is all correct. I still use OneNote 2010. I formated text in Word: Calibi 14pt, Before 0pt, After: 10pt, Linespacing Multiple, At 1.15. I pasted this text to OneNote. The paragraph spacing will be maintained regardless what style use in OneNote. I used this style as template for the Normal style: 'Normal' style was updated to 14 pt!
Strange enough this only works for Calibri, other fonts will return 11pt
1) Has this bug possibly been fixed in OneNote by MS, but Onetastic not been adapted to this change?
2) Is there any other way I could force OneNote to *ALWAYS apply Before 0pt, After: 10pt, Linespacing Multiple, At 1.15? Maybe a manual setting in the registry? I would not mind it this would be applied always to the complete text in 'Normal'
Yeeeck!
I especially love the custom styles feature, for exactly the same reason as you :) I want my code to be in Consolas 10pt, and now I can! Though is there any chance of adding a keyboard shortcut option? I use OneNote styles a lot, and apply/remove them using the keyboard, so being able to format code with the keyboard instead of two clicks to select it in the menu would be awesome.
However; applying a custom style to an equation causes it to disappear. Instead, the user need to apply the style first, and add the equation later. - Is there any way to fix this?
That helps me understand how things work better and how to get around the issue. Much appreciated!
i have had no luck after trying many different ways of getting the custom style to apply to a "link" of any kind in outlook 2010. is there a possibility where there is a limitation on formatting links in outlook 2010?
selecting the "link" text i wish to format with the custom style will inherit "bold" but will not ever be recolored (from the default blue of hyperlink text)... yet I can manually select the link text and color it orange if i wish by going up to the color palette in the text/font properties.
i've also noticed that indents don't seem to get recorded in the properties of custom styles. For example, I like making bulleted lists that are a smaller condensed font, indented twice --- so when I select the text I wish to apply this custom style to, the bullets are applied and the font changes, but nothing ever gets indented (by other amounts i've tried.
maybe i'm not understanding custom styles properly... i come from a design background using QuarkXpress (many years ago) and Adobe InDesign.
thanks for any assistance that may help me understand how to achieve the results i'm looking to get using your fantastic addition of custom styles into onenote! thank you :)
I created a new style, Saved, but when I come back in to Manage, it doesn't offer me the ability to change various characteristics of the Style. Is this a Pro feature only?
I've been having some real lagging issues with the Pro version pertaining to custom styles, which is the primary function I use.
Sometimes, if I highlight a word and apply a style to it, it takes 30 seconds to even a minute. When this happens, it happen continuously for the entire time I use OneNote and then tomorrow, it might be relatively quick again.
It's always slower than the built-in styles, which I understand, but I can't wait for 30+ seconds for each formatted word....
Any ideas?
1. Select some text and format it.
2. Go to Review -> Language -> Set Proofing Language... and select Thai (which I do not have installed)
3. Note that the red squiggles go away... so far so good.
4. Select Custom Styles -> Save Selection as Custom Style... - note that "Language (th)" is checked - again, so far so good.
5. Hit OK
6. Select some other text.
7. Select Custom Styles -> New Style 1
8. Note that the formatting options were applied to the selected text EXCEPT the language.
This might be a OneNote thing because Format Painter also doesn't seem to copy the language selection. Or maybe I'm doing something wrong... It's more than likely.
I'm using Office 365 ProPlus 16.0.6965.2115.
Also is there a way to open a file from a macro?
Is there a way to implement a short key for the personalized styles?
Thank you so much for this otherwise extremely useful feature :)
What I mean is please add the ability to edit the style (adding at least the ability to edit the paragraph spacing) within the "Custom Styles" popup menu that appears when either "Save Selection as Custom Style" or "Manage Custom Styles" selection is made.
Or, failing that, at the very minimum PLEASE-PLEASE-PLEASE implement editing of paragraph spacing in custom fonts.
(The lack of any sort of paragraph spacing in Onetastic's custom fonts is a huge hole in this otherwise very useful add-on for OneNote.)
I have the same problem than Lorel with OneNote 2016, is there any fix?
I tried following your suggestion of adding The Custom Styles button to quick access, but this still required me to use the arrow keys to select the custom style from the dropdown. This slows my typing down considerably. A shortcut that could avoid the arrow keys and be typed with one hand would be a vast improvement.
Onetastic is a great piece of works. Thanks for sharing!
The builtin styles would be great, if they would at least allow me to set a different font and/or font formatting. This will fill in the gap nicely, at least for any new notes I create.
Thank you for your work on this.
:)
Keep up the fabulous work.
thanks so much for the favourites feature - can you tell me is there a way I can get the desktop shortcuts to be that - not internet short cuts. They continue to open the onenote app not the desktop version which I prefer.
Thanks so much.
good job ;)
If there isn't a way to adjust, is there a way to revert back to a previous version of OneNote, before they added this annoying feature?
Thanks.
Regards,
Allen
I found out of Onetastic one hour ago while finding how to do a macro for OneNote to modify/remove the line spacing.
I was really glad finding about your Custom types implementation, but a bit disappointed as you mention of the spacing bug.
Do you have any clue when this bug will be fixed by the OneNote team?
Is it still possible to create a macro to remove line spacing despite this bug?
Thanks a lot for the OneTastic tool, and thanks in advance for your enlightenment on my spacing issue.
Best,
Skratt
I have a bug with the styles that I would appreciate if you could address. Here are the steps for it:
1. Write some text in a page. It needs to be long enough that you can see the problem (i.e. at least three words).
2. Pick a middle word in the sentence and create a web link. The links needs to have the following text at the end of the link: ?lang=en. For example "standard URL/?lang=en"
3. Select text before the linked word, the linked word, and after the linked word.
4. Select a custom style to apply to it. It applies the custom style, but it also truncates the selection at the start of the linked word and deletes the rest of the selected text. It should not do the latter.
I noticed that variations on what needs to be at the end of the URL included the pattern ?lang=* which includes "?lang=foo", "?lang=bar". However, "?bang=foo", "?lan=foo", etc. do not cause the problem.
I have a bug with the styles that I would appreciate if you could address. I have tried to submit it several times but it just locks up the web page. Is there another way I can submit a bug besides this comment to a blog?
Is there any easy way of exporting which ever file to another machine, for custom styles?
1. A Custom Style will only apply when I do one of the following:
a) I highlight text I have already typed and select the custom style.
b) I click a location within or immediately after a word of text, select the custom style, and begin typing.
c) Strangely, if I click a location immediately before a word of text, select the custom style, and begin typing, the style will apply to the already existing word of text but not the text I just started typing.
2. It would be very helpful if the Custom Style also applied in these situations. Right now, the Custom Style does not apply if I do any of the following:
a) I click a location on a blank line of text, select a custom style, and begin typing.
b) I click on location immediately next to spaces, select a custom style, and begin typing.
Essentially, it would be really great if - when I already know I want a given style - I could just select the custom style and start typing.
The thing is that when OneNote creates a fresh page in (say) Unfiled Notes or Quick Notes (e.g., if you are making a Send To OneNote clip), then OneNote religiously reverts to its own peculiar default Title font on the new page. I can't figure out how to override that default.
And there's definitely still something odd about OneNote's seeming aversion to Calibri 17. It's a very nice font too!
I can reproduce your problem and I found a workaround:
Create a new empty page and manually set the title font to Calibri 17.
Save this page as template and tell OneNote to use this template for the current section.
Verify your actions by creating another empty page - it should now have the correct title font.
Plus, when you change the tite font using OneTastic it will NOT fall back to Calibri Light.
I assume that there's a bug in the OneNote API (not OneTastic). It'll use the "light" variation of a font if there is no specific section template.
In general, font handling in OneNote is patronizing. I think the marketing guys @ Microsoft want to impose the MS corporate identity on MS customers.
Thank you for Onetastic, it has proved a most worthy addin.
I wanted to force all my page Titles to be in Calibri 17pt, so I saved a new Custom Style (Calibri 17pt) over the existing Title style, but it simply does not seem to work.
I also tried editing an existing font change macro (originally set for Calibri Light 20) and changed it to Calibri 17, but it came out Calibri Light 17 *every time* - just would not work, though it worked OK if I set it to Arial 17 or some other font!?
I'm confuzzled by this. Is there something peculiar about the Calibri font?
A Keyboard Shortcut example: When I click Ctrl+Win+E --> Style1 is activated.
"AutoFormat": When I write (without quotes) "\34Omar asd*" (Prefix is \34 and Suffix is *) --> the text between Prefix & Suffix is styled automatically with Style1 and Prefix & Suffix are removed.
I hope this feature would add a great power to the quick styling in OneNote that we really need.
Thanks a lot for your efforts!
Microsoft needs people like you.
Fernando
At any rate, thanks so much for all your hard work on this absolutely indispensable plugin!
But I have a suggestion to make it even better.
I want an icon (button) linking directly to a specific onenote-page.
No dropdown menu, it should be just one click.
In \"Pin to favourites\" add an option to enter the address for the 1-click icon (the address of the onenote-page it should should link to).
That would be the best.
If that is not possible maybe a \"split-button\", upper part links to the onenote-page, the lower part shows an option to select the address to link to.
Why a 1-click icon (button) ?
I have created a \"Link-central\", a onenote-page with coloured links to important sections & pages in OneNote, URL´s, documents on my harddisk etc.
I already have a taskbar-icon linking directly to the page, but it would be nice to have an icon (button) in OneNote.
That would make it a lot easier to switch between sections / pages in OneNote, while I am working \"in\" OneNote.
ps. sorry for doubleposting.
my name was missing in the first post
ds.
i have setup my bulleted lists with an indent of 1 to give a bit more breathing room from being right up against the left side of the page, however the indent field seems to be ignored when using styles. whether i use 1,3 or 5 - it will always put the bulleted list in un-indented, but with the proper bullet.
any ideas as to what may be causing this? thank you!
upon trying the custom styles, for some reason although i checked the option to remember the indent/tabbed in amount for making a bullet list, when i apply the style to plain text it doesn\'t indent the bulleted list as the original i created. is this a shortcoming of onenote?
--- as a side note, i just registered, and i used an email address that i really don\'t use much any more, and would love to change the email i have attached to my account. i didn\'t see an option to do that? is that possible?
thank you very much!
so, if you can help place the homepage on the ribbon (not add into the \'favorite\') , that\'s great. Adding into the \'favorite\' also save my time, but I need to clikc twice, not one click.
finally, to correct my request, that\'s: to pin any pape/section to the ribbon, not within \'favorite\'.
thanks,
btw I have a question. Is there a way to change the color of underline when you change the format of the text??
I fixed the e-mail me if someone replies. Apparently it didn\'t work on some browsers. Thanks for reporting.
Thank you so much! good job so far.
PS: and the e-mail me if someone replies didn\'t work for me.
I\'ve install the plugin but I\'ve some problems with it.
First of all, sometimes the plugin it doesn\'t work and i get the error \"Unknown error 0xC00CEE47\"
Other thing is that if the page is a quite big, if the plugin works, it works so slow :(.
Finally, i\'m looking for a plugin that avoids me to create a style that i can share on na net and if i make a modification on the style (Like a css class) the texts that uses it changes his font because the style has changed.
I like the Custom Styles very much. Thank you a lot.
I have two questions:
1. Is it or how is it possible to add the spacing to the custom styles?
2. Is it or how is it possible to add a shortcut to a custom style?
Thank you for your response.
Waterman
Amplexes.
the \'&\' character was the culprit.
Thank you for your support and for developing this great addin.
the favorites are here:C:\\Users\\****\\AppData\\Roaming\\Onetastic\\Favorites
Onetastic could work with paragraph spacing on ON2013, but I didn\'t have time to update it yet to do this.
However, until then, at this point, I would just like to have the regular ON back with the cumbersome paragraph spacing options normally built-in to the program, available to me again, which for some unknown reason OneTastic has seemed to block. Any suggestions? Thanks! :-)
I\'ve noticed that it doesn\'t matter what font the text is in that I highlight when I attempt to use the built-in paragraph spacing after installing OneTastic: Calibri, Arial, etc., it\'s all the same: since installing OneTastic, the paragraph spacing is simply greyed out on any NEW text or entries of any kind. I even went back to an old text entry, found I could change paragraph spacing just fine (because it was entered before OneTastic), copied it and pasted it into a different notebook, (since installing OneTastic) and whether I pasted it in by selecting \"keep source formatting\" or \"merge,\" after it pasted, I could NOT select paragraph spacing.
One more thing: I changed my DEFAULT font in OneNote to Times New Roman from Calibri (can\'t remember how I did that now), but even when the font selected is a One-Word font without spaces, the paragraph spacing is greyed out. If I can remember how to change it back to Calibri, I can retry installing OneTastic again, if you think that is causing the paragraph spacing to be greyed out no matter what font the text I\'m highlighting is in.
I understood your comments regarding the bug in ON2010 that equates to you not being able to incorporate paragraph spacing into OneTastic\'s customizable styles... But what I\'ve noticed is that once OneTastic is installed, the user can\'t even use the regular option to change the paragraph spacing on anything typed into or copied into OneNote 2010 either! Clicking on the paragraph alignment menu built into OneNote2010 on the Home ribbon shows \"paragraph spacing\" as greyed out. Things already in ON before the installation of OneTastic can be updated with new paragraph spacing using the paragraph alignment menu... but it seems that anything new can\'t.
If I\'ve missed something, by all means, let me know. Like many other users, things I type into ON and copy into ON are difficult to read without space between the paragraphs. Having to punch in several keystrokes using the regular paragraph spacing option in ON was cumbersome, but at least it provided the results I wanted. Now, I can\'t do that, so will have to uninstall OneTastic if it prevents that. I\'m checking into the AutoHotKey program as you suggested to others, but I\'m still concerned about OneTastic\'s \"greying out\" the normal paragraph spacing option in ON. Suggestions?
Amplexus,
Marcos
Yes, my notebook pages have images on them.
Sincerely,
Tse
I am having trouble applying styles to my Notes. I am heavy style user and I find it very frustrating that Onetastic does not use the styles that I put in. I am using a Windows 7 and OneNote 2010. The problem is that when I apply a style to a header, nothing happens. No error message or anything. Saving the styles that I made works but I can\'t apply it to my document. However, when I use the default styles built-in OneNote; they seem to be working. I tried reinstalling the add-on again but it is not working. Can anyone help me out?
Sincerely,
Tse
I am using OneNote 2013 in German.
How can i share the page? Do you mean sharing a screenshot, it its the case:
Heres the sheet where i cant use the \"custom styles\" normally:
ht tp:/ / imageshack.us/photo/my-images/833/customstylesproblem01.png/
Heres the sheet where i cant. Note theres a image on left column, and in the right it hasnt and nevertheless i cant use the \"custom styles\" in all sheet:
ht tp:/ / imageshack.us/photo/my-images/22/customstylesproblem02.png/
Concerning the problem, when I try to apply a \"custom style\" in a sheet that doesnt has images I can do it normally, but when i try to apply in a sheet that has images, I simply can\'t, and i get no error. I am able only to \"save selection as custom style\" and \"manage styles\" but i cant apply. The \"normal styles\" of onenote works normally. I think it can be something related to a conflict of images and the \"custom styles\".
Thanks for the great work. Sadly the feature that would help me a lot, the styles customization, is not working. Im in windows 7 with office 32 bits, the styles customization buttons shows up and it works at first glance BUT...
When I put an image in the page, it doesnt work anymore, even the text box has not an image, if an image is contained on the page, the custom styles dont work! Can you give a help with a possible solution?
Sorry, if I miss something here.
I have made a shortcut of a page (my ToDo list) by using PinToDesktop.
When I click the shortcut while Onenote is already active, is there any option so that the shortcut will open a new window of Onenote?
Thank you
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Is it supported on Windows 8?
Agree also with Justin, having shortcut keys for styles would be great. thanks for a great addin!
A feature that I\'d like to suggest for possible inclusion in a future update is the ability to make inclusion of the url when posting from the web optional. At the moment, you can switch it on or off in the options panel. There are occasions when I want to include the url, and occasion when I don\'t. I\'d like to be able to choose at the time of pasting whether or not to it. Anyway, that\'s just a suggestion and I\'m more than happy with OneTastic as stands.
dm: Sorry that I can\'t make Onetastic work on WinXP, as the necessary programming interfaces does not exist on XP.
But I can\'t try it because it doesn\'t work on WinXP.
I am a heavy user of OneNote and this add-on fixes most of my gripes about the tool. The ability to rotate print-outs in OneNote is really cool.
Great work!
Thanks for a program that makes as much sense as OneNote.
Bob
Thanks for the update!
However ,i prefer to use the pin button for dropdown \"Favorites\" rather than \"pin to Favorites\" since jump to Favorites is more often used.
My OneNote version is 14.0.6122.5000 (32-Bit).
Again, thanks, even if there are bugs, I still thank you for even trying to implement custom style, the default style just annoys me to no end and is a major part of the reason my life is miserable.
I tried just clicking in the middle of a word, then apply the style. Sometimes it works, sometimes it removes the space.
e.g. there is a phrase \"... that you don\'t use ...\"
that = red, bold
you = blue, bold
don\'t = black, plain
I click \"that\" and apply my \'blue-bold\' style. \"that\" and \"you\" become blue and bold, as expected and the space between them is maintained; but the space between \"you\" and \"don\'t\" is gone.
the phrase become: \"... that youdon\'t use ...\"
With double-clicking \"that\", the space between \"that\" and \"you\" is gone.
\"... thatyou don\'t use ...\"
The two examples above do not always happen. I see no clear pattern. That is why I am confused.
Omer, is there any strict rule when we save selected text as a style? I mean, if the selected text is a single word and saved as a style, then the style should be applied to a single word only; and etc ???
Thanks
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I did not know that Automatic Colour is identical to Black. I got it.
About editing custom style, I think the current menu \"Manage...\" and its popup tip \"Edit and...\" is confusing since there is nothing we can edit. Are you planning that edit feature?
Another small thing. I usualy double click a word to bold or highlight it. If I double click it and use my custom style, then the *space* between that word and the next word is removed. How to avoid this and I still can do double click to select the word ?
Thank you for this custom style feature. I hope I can remove font type, size, bold, colour, and highlight from QAT. The mini bar is not that quick.
- To edit an existing style, just create a new one and in the dialog to create, just pick the existing style\'s name. This will overwrite the old style with the new selection.
I am sorry.
Thanks.
It seems that the \"Colour Automatic\' setting of a custom style does not work.
e.g. If the text is blue (by manual edit or by using other style) then I use a style with automatic colour, the text stays blue.
Does \'automatic colour\' here means \'keep the current colour\' ?
Thanks.
How to edit the existing style?
I have deleted all the styles and made my own styles. I used \"Manage Custom Styles\" to edit one of them; but in the Custom Styles dialogue, there are only \'Delete\' and \'Close\' buttons and all elements of style are not selectable (they are gray). Did I skip something?
Thanks
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If you are taking feature requests (grin), how hard would it be to add/customize the list of Tags. For some reason, I find OneNote often forgets my tag settings (I use the clock as a tag for timestamping my notes and include the current date/time) - even better would be a macro/style that adds the clock tag and the current time to a paragraph.
For the left and right arrows at the upper-left-corner of all views, could you make them bigger? If the size and the style is similar to OneNote button for expanding and minimizing the ribbon, that would be easier for me to know when to click it since its border appears.
Thank you.
Yes I did and that is why I am here. I love your additions to Onenote, especially the crop feature.
Many Thanks
Thanks for adding even more awesomeness to MS\'s already awesomest tool!
Josh
I have been using onenote for years and it\'s nice to see it move forward.
I\'m excited to play with the favorites add-on, I would like a way to easily make \"breadcrumbs\" and then have an autogenerator for different sections (kind of like a table of contents in Word, with hyperlinks).
Good luck on future work!
These are great new features, especially the Custom Styles.
I\'m running Office 2010 and we use ON pretty heavily on my team and it\'s spreading throughout our building.
One thing that surprised me about Custom Styles was that it seems to take about 5 seconds for the custom style to be applied, after I select it from the toolbar. At first I didn\'t think it was working at all, then I noticed it was working after I\'d looked away. Is this expected behavior?
now, i would love to see another feature in OneTastic, and i think it can get really useful for must of us... It\'s about having a better Search Tags utillity.
I use several tags for many purposes, i use ON as my GTD system, so i have some tags for tasks, other tags for contexts, and other tags for normal notes... So when using the built-in tags search, things get messy
if i want to search to-dos, there is no problem, as i can choose the \"show only unchecked items option\"... but if i want to search for any other kind of tag, it takes a little to \"hide\" the todos, and other tags... So i would want a better search utility... For instance, i think it should be something like this:
You click the onetastic\'s \"search tags\" button, and a dialog appears... \"Choose tags\" and you get to check which tags do you want to search for, \"Where to search?\" And you get to check which notebooks you want to search in... and then \"Sort tags by\" and a dropdown with the original options (name of the tag, text of the note, etc..) then you click in a \"search\" button, and a new summary page is created (it would be great if it included links to the tagged notes as well)
hope you consider it.! many many thanks for all your work!
antonio
p.s. the \"update available\" button did appeared to me
Thanks again!