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Hello. I am a Medical Student and use OneNote for organizing all my materials. I frequently save files, e.g. pdf's, docx's, pptx's, in OneNote itself so that I can find the original files when I am going through notes.
Is there a way to enable the "open with" command in the right click menu for files saved in OneNote. For example, say I have a journal article pdf saved in a OneNote page. I have two programs for viewing pdfs, Acrobat and PDF Annotator, depending on what I want to do with it. In OneNote, when I right click on the pdf file, I only see the "open" option, which opens the file with the default pdf viewer. Thus, if I want to use the non-default pdf program, I have to either switch the default program or save the pdf file to a location on my computer where I can see the "open with" dialog in the right click menu.
Thank you very much for any advice and/or help offered. I greatly appreciate it.
Jason
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jason_hunt wrote:
[Quoted Text] > Is there a way to enable the "open with" command in the right click menu for > files saved in OneNote. For example, say I have a journal article pdf saved > in a OneNote page. I have two programs for viewing pdfs, Acrobat and PDF > Annotator, depending on what I want to do with it. In OneNote, when I right > click on the pdf file, I only see the "open" option, which opens the file > with the default pdf viewer. Thus, if I want to use the non-default pdf > program, I have to either switch the default program or save the pdf file to > a location on my computer where I can see the "open with" dialog in the right > click menu.
There is no "open with" option in OneNote. As you discovered, if you want to open a document with a non-default program you will need to save it first and then open it.
Another option is to insert the PDFs into OneNote as printouts. You will then be able to annotate and view directly within OneNote, although your annotations would not be saved to the original PDF file.
Ilya
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jason_hunt wrote:
[Quoted Text] > Hello. I am a Medical Student and use OneNote for organizing all my > Is there a way to enable the "open with" command in the right click > menu for files saved in OneNote. For example, say I have a journal > article pdf saved in a OneNote page. I have two programs for > viewing pdfs, Acrobat and PDF Annotator, depending on what I want > to do with it.
As Ilya already said, there is no such option in ON. ON always opens the *standard* program defined in the OS.
As I often work with PDF-Annotator I have set that as the default program for viewing PDFs. So when opening a PDF from ON, the Annotator comes up and IMO it's good enough for viewing too. When I want to use the Adobe Reader I select it from the context-menu's "Open with .." in the Explorer.
HTH Rainald
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Ilya Koulchin wrote:
[Quoted Text] > Another option is to insert the PDFs into OneNote as printouts. You > will then be able to annotate and view directly within OneNote, > although your annotations would not be saved to the original PDF > file.
Are you honestly recommending this? Commenting/annotating an image in ON is quite something. IMO it's hardly usable the way this feature implemented at present.
Rainald
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Thank you for your help. I know about printing a document into OneNote but find it an unacceptable way to work.
Thanks Rainald. I have PDF Annotator and will give it a try as the default viewer.
Jason
"Rainald Taesler" wrote:
[Quoted Text] > jason_hunt wrote: > > > Hello. I am a Medical Student and use OneNote for organizing all my > > Is there a way to enable the "open with" command in the right click > > menu for files saved in OneNote. For example, say I have a journal > > article pdf saved in a OneNote page. I have two programs for > > viewing pdfs, Acrobat and PDF Annotator, depending on what I want > > to do with it. > > As Ilya already said, there is no such option in ON. > ON always opens the *standard* program defined in the OS. > > As I often work with PDF-Annotator I have set that as the default > program for viewing PDFs. > So when opening a PDF from ON, the Annotator comes up and IMO it's good > enough for viewing too. > When I want to use the Adobe Reader I select it from the context-menu's > "Open with .." in the Explorer. > > HTH > Rainald > >
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jason_hunt wrote:
[Quoted Text] >>> Hello. I am a Medical Student and use OneNote for organizing all >>> my Is there a way to enable the "open with" command in the right >>> click menu for files saved in OneNote. For example, say I have a >>> journal article pdf saved in a OneNote page. I have two programs >>> for viewing pdfs, Acrobat and PDF Annotator, depending on what I >>> want to do with it. >> >> As Ilya already said, there is no such option in ON. >> ON always opens the *standard* program defined in the OS. >> >> As I often work with PDF-Annotator I have set that as the default >> program for viewing PDFs. >> So when opening a PDF from ON, the Annotator comes up and IMO it's >> good enough for viewing too. >> When I want to use the Adobe Reader I select it from the >> context-menu's "Open with .." in the Explorer. >> > Thank you for your help. I know about printing a document into > OneNote but find it an unacceptable way to work.
I use it for certain things where I want to *see* the content and where I want to be able to search, f.e. our university's telephone registers (I have even a link for that on my desktop ;-) ). But for commenting the content of a PDF there's too much lacking in ON, unfortunately. > > Thanks Rainald. I have PDF Annotator and will give it a try as the > default viewer.
OK fine. Pls report if does not work as desired.
Rainald
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