

There’s a Send to OneNote icon in the Outlook ribbon and an E-Mail Message icon in the Outlook section in the OneNote ribbon. In Office 2010, the integration between Outlook and OneNote can really improve productivity. A Notebook, which contains multiple pages analogous to spreadsheets (.xls) and workbooks (.xlw) in Excel, uses the extension. one is the same for OneNote 2007 as it is for OneNote 2010, even though the format is different between them. OneNote can save pages in many different formats, including Word. Content, including email messages, can be saved to OneNote, manipulated in ways unavailable within Outlook, and then emailed again. OneNote offers some basic free-form editing, highlighting, and other customizations.

(See also, " Using OneNote with Microsoft Outlook" and " How Microsoft OneNote Helps Me Organize My Life on the Go"). It can be used as a rudimentary database of basic documents and an intermediary for distributing information, even in heterogeneous environments. Content in OneNote can also be shared for collaboration, saved in a network location, such as SharePoint, or on the web, in a location such as Office Live. It uses the familiar nomenclature of pages and notebooks for compartmentalizing information. OneNote provides a free-form intermediary between different applications and formats. You can use it to store text and content from almost any copyable source. Microsoft OneNote is a virtual notebook binder for different types of content.
