Planes, Trains, and Notebook Layout View
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It’s summer now! I plan to visit the United Kingdom Before the trip, I booked flights, train tickets, hotels, |
I booked 4 flight tickets, 4 hotels, and 4 train tickets. I don’t want to mix up all these records, so I use Notebook Layout View to help me. To see this view, on the View menu, click Notebook Layout.
The document now looks like a notebook. I use the tabs on the right side of the notebook to classify my information. For example, I used 6 labels to sort my information: Flight (BJ), Flight (UK), Train (UK), Hotel, Tour and Train to Oxford. Each tab is a different color, which makes it easy to find information.
I will spend 15 days in UK, and I plan to visit 3 cities: London, Edinburgh, and Belfast. In order to ensure no surprises happen during my trip, I made a very detailed plan for each day. Each tab includes the itinerary for that day. There are several days in the trip that are critical because I need to travel from one city to another. In order to draw attention to these days, I changed the color of the tabs. Now I can scan the notebook to remember my departure days.
Check the topics here to learn how to record a note or other fun ways to keep organized with Notebook Layout View.
- Rex Tian, Office for Mac Program Manager
Notebook view is great. I’ve used it to plan events with different components (registration, food, seminar contents, etc.).
I recently discovered OneNote from the iPhone app, and it would be amazing if there were OneNote for Mac or at least integration between Notebook view and OneNote on the server. OneNote is a fantastic planning tool also.
Looks like it will be easier than what I’ve been doing. Ironically one can, and I have, spent many hours of detailed playing only to miss a train and have to re-schedule the trip or going a different route.
What I really MISS is a FOR MAC version of MS Trips & Streets program. I have to go to a windows machine for routing then hand copy it to a Mac SS.
is this available in the pc version?
Very cool! I really hadn’t looked at notebook view until seeing it in your blog! This may be very useful and certainly presents another way of organizing any trip. Thank-you!
How do you convert an Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac e-mail in to a Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 Word document, so that you can use the Notebook feature for organizing e-mails? Thanks.
John
@John Instead of organizing emails, I just used Notebook feature to record the content of emails. When I received a mail, I copied the mail content from Outlook and pasted them into Word. I did this manually.
I think it will be more easier to use Outlook to manage the email instead of using Word.
@Bob: you may also want to check out another blog that talks about Excel
. http://blog.officeformac.com/planes-trains-and-pivottables/
@contraryjim Maybe you can try the travel channel of Bing
http://www.bing.com/travel/ , I heavily relied on it for my trip planning. By this way, you don’t need to switch between Windows and Mac.
@elizabeth simmons: no, this is a Mac only feature. Many Windows users use OneNote, which is one component of Windows Office.
Is there any likelehood of OneNote coming to the mac? There are plenty of notebook-type apps available for mac, but I prefer OneNote.
The notebook feature of Word is OK, but it is quite limited compared to OneNote.
Also, can OneNote (for Windows) work with Word for Mac notebooks, and vice versa?
In Outlook for Mac 2011, there are custom fields in the contacts “personal” pull down menu that are named Date 1, Custom 1 and so forth. Is it possible to rename these field name to something meaningful?
Nobody wants this…what they want is the “Evernote” and “OneNote” experience of creating notes on iPhone, iPad, Mac OS X and viewing them anywhere including the browser and sharing them with others.
I echo the others’ comments about OneNote for Mac.
I’m a recent Mac Convert (having just bought my first Mac laptop a few months ago, the old MacBook Air) and am really liking it EXCEPT for the absence of OneNote, which I had gotten used to on my PC.
I’ve tried running Windows OneNote on my Mac using Parallels, but it’s not the same as a native app. I’m now turning to alternatives such as Evernote and Growly Notes. All of these are decent, but none are as intuitive and powerful as OneNote.
MS Office for Mac team – you guys are clearly passionate about making a great product for Mac users, and the Office 2011 suite is evidence of that.
Please, please consider making OneNote part of the Office for Mac as well? I would gladly pay an additional $50-80 for it.
Thank you.
It is really nice, but not what people want. They want OneNote and Outlook to give us the same experience as in Windows. That’s it. Just go for it and you will be fine with your customers.
I completely agree with Vincent word for word. We need OneNote for Mac, Notebook just doesn’t cut it.
Please, please, please….
I created numerous notebooks; however, when I try to send them to someone else, it doesn’t show up as ‘notebook style’. It appears as a page layout. Do I need to save it as a different extension or what else could the problem be? Any input would be appreciated