Are you by chance using OneNote 2007? If so, check out Format--> Show Page
title. You still have to do it for every page, but at least that will make
it a little easier. (I would have suggested this earlier, but I forgot it
was there.) Oh - now I remember why I didn't suggest it: If you turn it off
this way, the page title goes away and the first line is used
automatically... not much help for what you want.

Now.. Here is a cool hint: You can turn off the title page, then save that
page as a template. When you use it as a template, no title area (tab title
is picked up from first line).

Another idea: Add your title as white text. Then it won't show on the page,
but will on the tab. Would combining that with your own template work any
better?

--
Kathy Jacobs, Microsoft MVP OneNote and PowerPoint
Author of Kathy Jacobs on PowerPoint
Get PowerPoint and OneNote information at www.onppt.com

I believe life is meant to be lived. But:
if we live without making a difference, it makes no difference that we lived

"nomonkey" <nomonkey@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:4E575D84-246B-4406-8E92-33ADD62BFEAF@microsoft.com...
> Thanks for the reply, Kathy.
>
> I've had another couple days to play around with it.., and now see the
> "first line" business. Hadn't seen that.
>
> What I was looking for was a way to rename the tab itself.
>
> I was just trying to find a way to make the box go away but keep the
> title.
>
> I'm also trying to find a way to turn the title box off globally. I have
> to
> remove it for every page.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> "Kathy Jacobs" wrote:
>
>> If you don't have anything in the title box, your page title should be
>> picked up from the first line of text on the notes page.
>>
>>
>> That said, where would you want OneNote to pick up the title from, if not
>> from the title area?
>>
>> --
>> Kathy Jacobs, Microsoft MVP OneNote and PowerPoint
>> Author of Kathy Jacobs on PowerPoint
>> Get PowerPoint and OneNote information at www.onppt.com
>>
>> I believe life is meant to be lived. But:
>> if we live without making a difference, it makes no difference that we
>> lived
>>
>> "nomonkey" <nomonkey@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:6E8F17E3-2E0A-4867-BFAF-74A0EB3A8347@microsoft.com...
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > Any help would be appreciated. I am new to OneNote and am muddling my
>> > way
>> > through most of it. Very cool.
>> >
>> > One thing I find frustrating is the page title box on every page. I
>> > found
>> > the option to remove it under the "format" tab, but when I do it
>> > disappears
>> > from the tab as well.
>> >
>> > How do I get the in-page title box to go away, but keep the page title
>> > in
>> > the label on the side of the page?
>> >
>> > The only thing I could find on the web was someone saying "You can't.
>> > Period. It's for good reasons. Period." Which struck me as mildly
>> > insane.
>> >
>> > Thanks in advance for any help.
>>