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Unique tags/page numbers in Onenote
John Kitchin 11/28/2008 1:49:01 PM
I want to generate unique tags or page numbers in Onenote. I want to use
Onenote as a scientific research notebook, but I need to be able to
systematically label samples and programs with a unique label that is
findable in Onenote. For instance, I might name a sample JRK1-23a, where JRK1
corresponds to the notebook, 23 is page 23 in that notebook and "a" means
sample a on that page.

I don't want to do this manually, but would prefer a template so that
everytime I make a new page it automatically has a new page number, and a
little button that can be used to generate a unique sample number based on
the page I am on.

any ideas?
Re: Unique tags/page numbers in Onenote
Ilya Koulchin <ikoulchine[ at ]hotmail.com> 11/28/2008 11:35:51 PM
John Kitchin wrote:
[Quoted Text]
> I want to generate unique tags or page numbers in Onenote. I want to use
> Onenote as a scientific research notebook, but I need to be able to
> systematically label samples and programs with a unique label that is
> findable in Onenote. For instance, I might name a sample JRK1-23a, where JRK1
> corresponds to the notebook, 23 is page 23 in that notebook and "a" means
> sample a on that page.
>
> I don't want to do this manually, but would prefer a template so that
> everytime I make a new page it automatically has a new page number, and a
> little button that can be used to generate a unique sample number based on
> the page I am on.

There isn't a builtin way to do this, but it might be possible to write
a plugin. If you or someone in your lab knows some programming, look up
the OneNote API reference. The basic idea might be to write a plugin
that listens for the page navigate event and assigns a number to the
page if it doesn't already have one. You could then have a toolbar
button that labels the selected line with the unique ID.

Feel free to post here if you have any additional questions about the API.

Ilya

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