The thread came up when I searched for the issue and yes, I did read the
other posts. I'm not a programmer, project manager or anyone other than the
user of an unfamiliar program trying to get assistance with what I considered
to be an obstacle to what I wanted to acomplish; which was to
password-protect the entire notebook with the least amount of effort. This
data is on my personal machine; I'm not sharing these notebooks with anyone
and I have no intention of sharing them. And actually yes, venting helped.
BTW, I'd like to thank Ben M. Schorr for his suggestion. I didn't realize
that all OneNote notebooks are shared by default. (unfamiliar w/the program,
remember?)
I didn't see an option to password-protect the notebooks through the
Properties dialog box (Vista Home Premium 32bit Service Pack 2), but I'l try
disabling sharing & maybe that will suffice.


"Rainald Taesler" wrote:

> Silent E wrote:
>
> Where did you dig out this oooold thread?
>
> > I fail to see why providing the ability to lock an entire notebook
> > (directory) would be a detriment. I, too, would like to lock my
> > Personal notebook in one operation rather than the tedious method of
> > having to lock each section individually.
>
> Didn't you *read* what you quoted?
> IMO Sinbad7 has valid points for the why not as well as workarounds.
>
> > If the purpose of this
> > application is to make things easier for the user, then why should
> > the user have to go through the extra steps of creating multiple
> > one-section notebooks or locking each section individually. Seems
> > counter-productive to me and just another reason NOT to use this
> > so-called 'efficient application.
>
> Did the venting help you?
>
> Rainald
>
> > "xTenn" wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> "Sinbad7" <Sinbad7@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> >> news:5918E9CA-6679-457C-9FC7-E5C17EE2CC9A@microsoft.com...
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> "michtho_ms" wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> This is not possible in OneNote 2007. You have to password
> >>>> protect each section.
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> Thank you for the reply michtho_ms
> >>>
> >>> I suppose there is some reson but I find it odd.
> >>> Personally Id prefer to unlock a whole notbook with just one
> >>> passwordword.
> >>
> >>
> >> That would be nice, but difficult to implement given that sections
> >> are file level while notebooks are directory level. Everytime I see
> >> this question asked I am concerned that someone at Microsoft may run
> >> off and try to implement some horrific directory locking scheme...
> >> but so far the OneNote development has been great (IMHO they have
> >> held off the Office Bloatware curse, but time will tell).
> >>
> >> The only other way it would work is:
> >>
> >> 1. A single file for a notebook (not a section). This means that
> >> you could no longer send a section by itself, but in logical terms a
> >> notebook is what you open to start with, not a big loss.
> >>
> >> OR (the common sense version)
> >>
> >> 2. Simply keep the current password in memory for X amount of
> >> activity time (encrypted of course), and when the user requests a
> >> password protected section try the current password and if it works
> >> automatically open the section. This is the way one of my
> >> favororite Mobile applications (Tombo) handles multiple password
> >> protected files. This would not require any changes to the current
> >> structure.
> >>
> >>
> >> As a workaround have you considered keeping some notebooks with only
> >> one section? May make it easier to manage from a password
> >> standpoint, although no doubt you will then have multiple notebooks
> >> quickly.
>