You could use the drawing tools to draw a line from your text to the
comment if you'd like.
I don't object to adding a comment feature, just seems a little
extraneous in an unstructured data set like OneNote.
--
-Ben-
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"oistrakhan"
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> I agree with goengurl and not with Ben. If you have a blank space within a
> note container you can put a comment in there (within a new container) but
> for it to stand out you would have to color the font or highlight it. That is
> a lot more work than the neat comment feature in Word.
> If you have a block of solid text in OneNote and you want to comment on a
> specific sentence in that - where do you put your comment? I suppose you
> could shrink your note container, highlight the text on which you want to
> comment, then put your comment in the 'margin' you have just created. But -
> how much effort is that?! And you still haven't got a Word-like link from
> your comment to the section of text.
> Whenever I see swanky demos on OneNote on the web (e.g.
>
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/onenote/HA102342001033.aspx) they show
> someone annotating a document by hand-drawing a line round something and then
> handwriting a comment - in a gap on the page that is conveniently there. But,
> in the real world, most of us don't use a Tablet or are just too stupid to
> know how to make the most of OneNote. I am in both those categories.
> I guess the answer is that we shouldn't expect OneNote to have all our
> favorite bells and whistles from Word. For me, I long for Format Painter in
> OneNote.
> "goeungurl" wrote:
>
>
>> OneNote is great except that they don't have a commenting feature. Perhaps
>> could integrate the function from Word? Unless... am I just being stupid and
>> not finding it?
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