The question of how to move content from a Web page to OneNote comes up fairly frequently on the OneNote newsgroups. So I will describe it here and then can reference it in newsgroup replies.
1. Have OneNote open with a new page in the section where you want to paste the content from the Web page. Or simply the page that you want to paste into.
2. Go back to Internet Explorer (or Firefox) and highlight the content you want to copy
3. With the left mouse button down drag to the OneNote icon in the taskbar. If you have auto-hide enabled just drag to the bottom of the page and keep the mouse button down until the OneNote icon in the taskbar is shown.
4. Move the mouse over the OneNote icon in the taskbar. OneNote will display, open at the page you chose to paste into.
5. Keeping the left mouse button down move the mouse to the position on the page where you want to paste the text
6. Release the mouse button at the point where you want to paste.
7. The content should be pasted into OneNote
If you are pasting a large amount of Web page content, with images for example, the paste can be slow - several seconds.
Very occasionally, the paste fails. I haven't seen that for some time so OneNote SP1 may have fixed it.
If you copy from Internet Explorer then the URL for the page is pasted automatically. From Firefox you have to do that manually.
There is a OneNote "powertoy" from Microsoft described on OneNote 2003 SP1 Add-in: Send to OneNote from Internet Explorer PowerToy . I haven't tried it (yet) since the way I described above works well for me.
Posted by Andrew Watt at November 4, 2004 09:52 AM | TrackBack