

Any changes forces OneNote to store the previous version of the page. Good for finding suggested changes or annotations by your boss or customer. Very useful if you want to find out specific stuff done by ONE person across the notebook. Gives you a report by author and associated edits. Sort in ascending order to get this report.ĭoes exactly what it says. This is a brilliant option to see how the notebook has evolved since it was created. It opens a separate pane (window on right side) to show a list of changes in chronological order. You choose the time frame for viewing changes. It just hides the information, does not delete it. Useful if there are too many edits and things look very cluttered.

If you want to suppress the author name, use this option. The small letter d in the top right corner are the initials of the last person who edited this. Unread things are shown with green overlay. There is no button called Previous Unread. This will take you across all sections and pages in the notebook in chronological order. How do you know where to go? Just click on the Next Unread button and keep going.

Others must have added lot of content to the notebook. In older versions of OneNote this tab was called Share. More detailed tracking happens in this tab. Just right click on any text, image, drawing, embedded object, audio or video and it will tell you the name of the person who created / edited it with the timestamp. This is the simplest form of keeping track of things. There is much more sophistication available to track stuff. Why not? Because of many technical reasons – which I don’t want to go into in this article at least. Word like Track Changes is NOT THEREīefore you ask, this feature is not there. In future articles I will cover these facilities in greater detail. In this article I will list various features with a brief introduction of each feature. OneNote has extensive set of features to keep track of who does what and when. But that defeats the purpose of collaboration and efficient teamwork. Of course, on a per section basis you can put passwords. The problem is that everyone can edit and delete everything. This way, there is no need to confuse each other by flooding mailboxes with so called “FYI” mails with CCs. Now, whatever they want to update or inform the entire team is simply added to this notebook. The benefit is that every member gets an offline copy of the notebook on ALL their devices – PC / Laptop / Mobile phones / Tablets. Every member of the team usually has Edit permission.
