Students use it quite a bit for typing/organizing notes. At least on the Windows version, it's easy to combine math equations, drawings, text, etc all on the same page. I used it in industry (computer engineering) every day to keep research notes, weekly reports, etc. It's all searchable, so any time somebody had a question about something I worked on or a function I wrote, I just punched it into OneNote and had all my notes about it. Pretty handy.

How to Sync OneNote 2016 Notebooks to Your OneDrive Account and Access them Anywhere Lori Kaufman @howtogeek Updated July 12, 2017, 10:16pm EDT The best note-taking programs, like Evernote, sync your notes to all your other devices, so you have them wherever you go.

But if the Mac version only syncs to OneDrive, I'll be staying away. I'd like to keep my notes off cloud storage. I just watched the video and I've never used this before, but I've seen it and always unchecked it during our office installs Here at work. Simply because people only need the basics here.

I don't know if it works the same way for windows or not but, it seems very easy to use and seems user friendly. For instance, being you can double click anywhere and start typing.that parts is pretty cool. But here's a question.why is that you can't do that same action in Word? There have been many times I would like to start typing somewhere but simply can't because Word won't allow it.

By When you receive an invitation in Outlook in Office 2011 for Mac, you open it the same way that you open any other e-mail message. Double-click an invitation to open it in its own window.

See, it's little annoying things (never mind the really BIG issues) like that, piss me off with MS. Said by: But here's a question.why is that you can't do that same action in Word? There have been many times I would like to start typing somewhere but simply can't because Word won't allow it. See, it's little annoying things (never mind the really BIG issues) like that, piss me off with MS.

Not to start a whole discussion on what a 'word processor' is or is not, but the action you described is not how a person would expect a word processor to work. You can't do that action in any page-formatted type application (Pages, Word, OpenOffice Writer, etc) as it breaks the whole paradigm of using rules to format and space text in a regular, predictable way. I agree with you that I wish it was easier to do complex formatting in word processors, but nobody has cracked that nut yet (as far as I know) - it's not just a MS problem. You could create a text box in Word and get effectively the same thing with 1 extra click. Said by: But here's a question.why is that you can't do that same action in Word?

There have been many times I would like to start typing somewhere but simply can't because Word won't allow it. See, it's little annoying things (never mind the really BIG issues) like that, piss me off with MS. Not to start a whole discussion on what a 'word processor' is or is not, but the action you described is not how a person would expect a word processor to work. You can't do that action in any page-formatted type application (Pages, Word, OpenOffice Writer, etc) as it breaks the whole paradigm of using rules to format and space text in a regular, predictable way. I agree with you that I wish it was easier to do complex formatting in word processors, but nobody has cracked that nut yet (as far as I know) - it's not just a MS problem. You could create a text box in Word and get effectively the same thing with 1 extra click.True.

But if you look at it from a progression standpoint. The whole word processor format was to replace the typewriter. With the typewriter you can pretty much line up your page and type where ever the hell you want. Why can't you simply do that in digital format?

It makes no sense. If I have a paper on my desk, I can write on it where I choose. I don't have to do special things on the paper to allow such action. I just, well.do it. And it looks the way I WANT it to look.

I'm fairly sure this could be implemented in word processing programs. Heck if you look at it in a different way, it's sorta how Steve Jobs would think. 'If I can do it in real life, I should be able to do it on the computer'. The word processor equivalent is placing a tab at the desired location and hitting the 'tab' key.