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This lesson will show you how to create and manage section groups.
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Organize with Section Groups
This lesson will show you how to create and manage section groups.
When to use
As you use OneNote more and more, you may be creating sections. The section groups help you organize those sections.
Instructions
- Go into the OneNote program
- Open an existing notebook, or create a new one if you don't have one
- Right click on a section
- Click on New Section Group
- Give the new section group a name
- Right click on a section
- Click on Move or Copy
- Click on the section group name and click on Move - the section is now part of that group
- You can also click and drag a Section into a Section Group to make it part of that group
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- 00:03 Now let's talk about section groups.
- 00:06 So I see Access, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Word.
- 00:10 So those are all Microsoft topics.
- 00:13 And then I have QuickBooks and QuickBooks Online.
- 00:15 And those are only Intuit topics.
- 00:17 So let me show you how I might group the sections.
- 00:21 In this case, I'm going to right-click on the Access section,
- 00:26 and I'm going to add a new section group, so
- 00:29 notice what happened there, I'll type in Microsoft.
- 00:36 And I'll do that again.
- 00:37 I'm going to right-click on Access, and
- 00:40 I'll do a new section group and I'll call this Intuit, all right?
- 00:45 So now how do we get the sections into the section groups?
- 00:51 So I'm going to right-click on the Access section, and
- 00:55 we're going to say Move or Copy.
- 00:58 And at this point, we see the different sections and there's those groups, right?
- 01:03 So I'll pick on the Microsoft group and I'll pick on Move, good.
- 01:09 So now the Microsoft group contains the Access section.
- 01:14 Let me go back to the previous level with this arrow, good.
- 01:18 Now I can also drag them.
- 01:20 So I'll pick up Excel and just drag it into the Microsoft group that way,
- 01:25 and now the Excel group is there.
- 01:28 So I'm going to click on the arrow to go back to the previous level.
- 01:31 So I'll pick up Outlook and drag it to the Microsoft group, good.
- 01:38 Or the other way is I can right-click on PowerPoint and say Move or
- 01:43 Copy there, so either way is good.
- 01:45 I'll pick on Move or Copy, and then I see the Microsoft group,
- 01:51 and I'll pick on Move or Copy of course, good.
- 01:55 And then I'll go back to the previous level and I'll pick up Word and
- 02:00 just drag it into the Microsoft group, good.
- 02:04 And now, all five of those are there.
- 02:08 Let me go back to the previous level.
- 02:10 Now I'll pick up QuickBooks and drag it to the Intuit group, and
- 02:15 I'll come back to the previous level and
- 02:18 I'll pick up QuickBooks Online and move it into the Intuit group, good.
- 02:23 So in this case, these are now section groups.
- 02:29 And the sections can be part of the section groups as we can see.
- 02:32 Maybe it just kind of cleans up your sections to help you organize your
- 02:36 sections a little bit,
- 02:37 even though here I can add another section if I pick on the plus sign.
- 02:41 Let's say I have a course on Crystal Reports, which is neither Intuit or
- 02:46 Microsoft, so that's kind of a standalone section.
- 02:51 So I can have standalone sections, I can have the section groups.
- 02:56 The groups can be part of the section groups.
- 03:00 Of course, I can have as many sections as I want, and
- 03:03 I could have as many section groups as I want.
- 03:06 And the section groups can have as many sections as you need there as well.
- 03:09 So this is a great way to organize your sections.
- 03:13 The way we added that in the first place is I right-clicked on a section, and
- 03:17 here I can add a new section or a new section group.
- 03:20 And that's what we did for Intuit and Microsoft.
- 03:24 And then I added those previous sections into the section groups.
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