Take Screenshots Without Opening OneNote

Sometimes you want a picture of something on your screen. Screen shots allow you to capture your whole screen or just a part of it and save it as a picture.

OneNote has a great tool for taking screen shots or "screen clippings." However, you may not want to have to open OneNote every time you want to take a picture. So, you can actually place OneNote in your taskbar, and access just the screen clipping tool from there.

How to place OneNote in the taskbar:

1. In OneNote, select Tools at the top
2. Select Options...
3. Select Other from the menu on the left
4. Check the check box at the top labeled: Place OneNote icon in the notification area of the taskbar

Now, you should see the OneNote icon in the bottom right area of your screen in the taskbar.

How to use the screen clipping tool:

1. Right-click the OneNote icon in the taskbar
2. Select Create Screen Clipping
   You may have also noticed the shortcut (Window + S)
3. Your screen will turn faded, and you can click and drag your cursor over the area you want a picture of

OneNote will automatically open and place the screen clipping on a page. The picture is also placed on clipboard, so you can now paste that image anywhere, even in documents outside of OneNote.

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Alt + what?! You will love this shortcut

Quickly look up definitions and articles in Office 2007

This is awesome! Okay, so you are reading a document in Word, or you are making a PowerPoint presentation, and you come a cross a word you are not familiar with. Or maybe, while reviewing some Art History class notes you took in OneNote you come across a word that you need a little more information on, like Neoplasticism (see picture).
Okay, so you could go through the long tedious task of opening dictionary.com, or wikipedia, and attempting to retype the word Neoplasticism. Or, even worse, you could get an actual dictionary or encyclopedia, but I don't want to and neither do you!

So, here we go, hold down Alt on the keyboard and Click the word you want to look up!

The Research task pane opens in Office 2007 and gives you definitions, translations, synonyms, and articles from Encarta online (Microsoft's online encyclopedia). Take a look below for what I got when I Alt+Clicked "Neoplasticism."

Now go try it. Open your most commonly used Office Program, type in a word, hold down ALT on you keyboard, and then CLICK on the word. After you experience it, click here to sign up for our Office 2007 classes or our Computer Basics class. You will learn more great time-saving shortcuts.