Using OneNote For Screen Captures

I have discovered a cool OneNote function that you would not think of using OneNote for. But it works really well.

When you install OneNote, a little component of OneNote called SideNote gets installed. It shows up in the task bar next to the time in an icon with a N in it. When you click this icon a special OneNote page comes up which allows you to add quick notes to your notebook, a real nice feature in itself. However, if you right click the SideNote icon you will have a pop up menu that allows you to select "Create Screen Clipping". When you select it, your desktop will dim out and you will have a selection tool displayed. You can use the selection tool to highlight the area of the screen that you want to get a screen shot of. The screen shot will appear in a new OneNote page where it can be saved or copied to another application like an Outlook mail message or a Word document.

I have found this function to be very helpful in documenting how to do a specific function in an application.