I am a medical student and nearly all school materials are in powerpoint or
word format. I would like to use onenote to take and organize the majority
of my notes. Trying to convert word docs and powerpoint presentation
material into onenote creates problems that could easily be corrected.

First, many materials use fonts with custom colors. If they are copied and
pasted into onenote the colors are the same. However, if you enter your own
text, these colors are not available. If I do the same, for example, pasting
a list from powerpoint to word, a color scheme with these colors is instantly
available. Why couldn't this feature be included in onenote?

Second, why is the picture toolbar inferior in onenote relative to other
office programs. For example, cropping a picture is simple in word and
powerpoint, and again, for reasons that are unfathomable to the note-taking
world, not included in the onenote program.

Third, onenote is for notetaking. Outlines are ideal formats for
notetaking. The outlining options in onenote seem to be aimed at quizing.
Well, actually creating an outline is frustrating. It seems that it would be
fairly easy to include the outlining features available in word so that
actually creating an outline would go smoother.

Fourth, converting powerpoints intto onenotes is the most frustrating to a
student. Clearly, the programing has benefits that are apparent to anyone
who has tried to organize notes in word using powerpoint lecture notes. It
would be nice to organize ppt slides in an outline that doesn't take up to
much space. Why doesn't onenote allow for the editing of ppt slides that is
a feature of word.

Overall, onenote has the potential to be extremely beneficial to the
student. I am frustrated however that the features I liked using in word are
not available in onenote. Word is agonizing to use trying to organize notes,
onenote addressess these problems but rids itself of the useful features in
word. I propose a format that basically combines the features of both word
and onenote.

Thank you.

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