OneNote Wonder! A Beginners Guide to JAWS for Windows with Microsoft OneNote!

Introduction.

Microsoft OneNote is your digital notepad & note taking app. Everyone needs to write down information. It could be a shopping list, thoughts you might want to present at an important meeting, or maybe lecture notes. But how do you get to your notetaking program quickly to write down those spontaneous ideas you've had? Where do you save them? How can you share them with other people? And, most importantly, how do you find them again?

Microsoft OneNote can help you with all of this, but it can do much more.

OneNote is ideal for storing unstructured information — not just the notes you take in lectures or meetings, (or digital versions of Post It notes), but also photos, videos, web pages, PDFs, presentations, the frequency for your favourite radio stations in cities to which you travel. In short, anything you might need to refer to one day.

You don't need to get the perfect structure straight away. Instead, the first step of making OneNote useful is to put as much information that you might need later as possible in there, so that you can search for it.

Back in 2019, the original OneNote Wonder training course was produced. Things have moved on since that time to the point where OneNote has become a very different application to the version used at that time. OneNote in an accessible form is now more widely available. It is included with Windows11 as standard, as part of Microsoft Office 2019 or as part of a Microsoft Office 365 subscription. This training course takes that into account and highlights other recent changes. The JAWS scripts to support OneNote have been updated. Still don't have OneNote? No problem; you can download it separately to run it on Windows10.

Our training course OneNote Wonder, will help you to get started with what is a powerful application. You will learn about the terminology used within the application, accessing the program in an accessible way and how you can verify that your actions have been carried out successfully. Moreover in addition to making the application even more accessible, the JAWS scripts provide considerable additional spoken and Braille-based feedback in many areas to ensure OneNote is a pleasure to use.

What Will I Learn?

The training course is divided into two lessons.
The topics will include:

• Introduction to OneNote.
• Getting started and script installation.
• Launching OneNote and signing in.
• Checking the JAWS scripts are working.
• Creating our structure and navigation.
• Adding a second notebook.
• Composing text and spell checking.
• Preliminary formatting: bold, italics, underlining, bulleted lists, headings etc.
• The To Do tag.
• Potentially critical Tabs adjustment.
• Adding a second Microsoft account.
• A note on tables.
• Working with external sources: Email, Word document and Excel spreadsheets etc.
• Finding a note in any notebook.
• The Immersive Reader.
• More on tags.
• Changing font style and size, Tell Me.
• Moving sections and pages.
• Transcribing audio to text.
• Quick Notes.
• Deleting notebooks.
• Sharing notebooks.

Course Requirements.

In order to take part in this training course, you will need to have access to the Microsoft OneNote app, but as previously explained, this is easy.
You will also need JAWS for Windows version 2021 or later in order for the scripts to function.

What Will I Receive and How Much Does it Cost?

The training course is priced £50 which is approximately $62, and will give to you:

• The JAWS scripts for the Microsoft OneNote app.
• A recording of each of the two lessons in MP3 audio format which you can download whenever you want. The links to the files will not expire. Full text transcripts are available.

Alternatively, please send an email to
brian@hartgenconsultancy.com
whereupon an invoice can be sent to you so that you can pay for the training course online.

Conclusion.

Wonder about OneNote no more. The goal of this training course is to provide you with knowledge and skills to empower you to remember, think and organise in the ways which work for you. Learn how to use Microsoft OneNote in an accessible way! Gather your thoughts and then make them even better!