set individual Background Color of Notes? Asus 3/23/2007 1:35:08 PM Hello, I've got a new OneNote workbook with several pages. On one page I've several notes and I'd like to set the background color of each note to separate the notes visually and by themes. Is this possible?

Re: set individual Background Color of Notes? Grant Robertson <BOGUS[ at ]BOGUS.com> 3/24/2007 5:02:13 PM In article <185342A2-9AC0-4CE5-B3AA-95FEA59FA9AF[ at ]microsoft.com>, Asus[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com says... [Quoted Text] > I've got a new OneNote workbook with several pages. > On one page I've several notes and I'd like to set the background color of > each note to separate the notes visually and by themes. Is this possible? Not really. You could put a picture of a solid color behind each of what you are calling "notes" to achieve the look you desire. But remember, that picture and the text box (what you call a "note") will always and forever be entirely separate. They just happen to overlap. If you insert more text which changes the size of the text box then you would have to manually change the size of the picture. This is not something I would like to mess with.

Re: set individual Background Color of Notes? "Erik Sojka (MVP)" <esojka[ at ]ms-onenote.net.nospam> 3/27/2007 10:04:28 PM The BG color of each Page can be set via the Page Setup Task Pane (File menu | Page Setup | Page Color dropdown). This setting changes the background color of the Page. The Page Tab retains the color of the Section. =?Utf-8?B?QXN1cw==?= <Asus[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in news:185342A2-9AC0-4CE5-B3AA-95FEA59FA9AF[ at ]microsoft.com: [Quoted Text] > Hello, > > I've got a new OneNote workbook with several pages. > On one page I've several notes and I'd like to set the background > color of each note to separate the notes visually and by themes. Is > this possible? > >

Re: set individual Background Color of Notes? "Kathy Jacobs" <call_kathy[ at ]knot.cox.net> 3/27/2007 10:14:22 PM What about using tags to do this? You can set up tags with different background/highlight colors and apply them to the individual paragraphs of the tabs... (If you need more details, let me know.) -- Kathy Jacobs, Microsoft MVP OneNote and PowerPoint Author of Kathy Jacobs on PowerPoint Get PowerPoint and OneNote information at www.onppt.com I believe life is meant to be lived. But: if we live without making a difference, it makes no difference that we lived "Asus" <Asus[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:185342A2-9AC0-4CE5-B3AA-95FEA59FA9AF[ at ]microsoft.com... [Quoted Text] > Hello, > > I've got a new OneNote workbook with several pages. > On one page I've several notes and I'd like to set the background color of > each note to separate the notes visually and by themes. Is this possible? > >

Re: set individual Background Color of Notes? "Ken Sanders" <KenSanders[ at ]invalid.com> 3/28/2007 1:22:46 AM More details please. I tried what I though you meant but didn't make any progress. I tried using a couple of the predefined highlighted tags such as "Remember this." No luck. I might have missed something though. Thanks On 27-Mar-2007, "Kathy Jacobs" <call_kathy[ at ]knot.cox.net> wrote: [Quoted Text] > What about using tags to do this? You can set up tags with different > background/highlight colors and apply them to the individual paragraphs of > > the tabs... > > (If you need more details, let me know.)

Re: set individual Background Color of Notes? "Kathy Jacobs" <call_kathy[ at ]knot.cox.net> 3/28/2007 2:01:51 AM Which version of OneNote are you using? It shouldn't matter, as I have done this in both versions, but thought I would ask anyway. More details on how to do it :) Bring up the Customize My Tags task pane. Create a new tag using the Add button. Give the tag a name such as "BlueHighlight". Set the highlight color to blue. Just to be sure it works, give it an icon too. Click OK to save the tag. If using OneNote 2007, for ease of use, move the tag up into the first nine tags. To do that, select it in the task pane and use the arrows at the bottom of the task pane to move it up to the ninth position in the list. Go to one of the notes you want highlighted. Select the note. Press Control and 9 or select the tag from the list to apply the tag. The background of the selected text should turn blue and you should see the icon to the left. I am not sure why your "Remember for later" tag didn't work. It should have. You also shouldn't need to set an icon (I just tested without the icon and it worked fine). What did you see when you applied the tag? -- Kathy Jacobs, Microsoft MVP OneNote and PowerPoint Author of Kathy Jacobs on PowerPoint Get PowerPoint and OneNote information at www.onppt.com I believe life is meant to be lived. But: if we live without making a difference, it makes no difference that we lived "Ken Sanders" <KenSanders[ at ]invalid.com> wrote in message news:GrjOh.4184$5E3.3944[ at ]trndny01... [Quoted Text] > > More details please. I tried what I though you meant but didn't > make any progress. I tried using a couple of the predefined > highlighted tags such as "Remember this." No luck. I might > have missed something though. > > Thanks > > On 27-Mar-2007, "Kathy Jacobs" <call_kathy[ at ]knot.cox.net> wrote: > >> What about using tags to do this? You can set up tags with different >> background/highlight colors and apply them to the individual paragraphs >> of >> >> the tabs... >> >> (If you need more details, let me know.)

Re: set individual Background Color of Notes? "Ken Sanders" <KenSanders[ at ]invalid.com> 3/28/2007 8:09:49 PM It appears I was trying to apply the tag to an entire table. That's what I couldn't get to work. However, after trying it on regular text I got it to work. It doesn't look at all attractive though. I'm not going to fret over it, but it would be nice if you could do an entire rectangular block with a distinct background color. Thanks for the instructions though.