That capability is only available on Windows, where the innate capabilities of Microsoft’s top platform provide not just the ability to scribble in your own handwriting, but also important functionality-like pressure sensitivity, erasers, and more-that makes handwriting more natural.

To be very clear: Handwriting in OneNote for iPad is not the full digital ink experience. But don’t worry if you’re not using OneNote on an iPad: Microsoft is also adding OCR capabilities to OneNote on all platforms: Windows, Mac, the web, and on mobile. When the Notebook is syncing, it is saving the information to OneNote Online.Microsoft today announced one of the most eagerly-anticipated features for OneNote for iPad: The ability to handwrite notes and draw with a stylus in the popular mobile app. NOTE: You may see 'Syncing' at the top of the OneNote Notebook next to the Notebook name. Instead, OneNote will automatically save your information to OneNote Online. The OneNote app doesn’t have a Save button. The information you add to the page is saved automatically. Tap anywhere on the screen in the page and use the on screen keyboard to type your messageĩ. Tap +Page if you want to add a new page to this section of the Notebook.Ĩ. Tap +Section if you want to add a new section to the Notebookħ. You would need to select a different section to add notes.Ħ. NOTE: in the image at the right, you will see that the section called 'Welcome' is read-only.

Tap the page where you want to add your notes. NOTE: If you are not on the Notebook you want, tap the arrow to the left of the Notebook nameĥ. OneNote opens to where you were when you closed the app.

Some sections may be read-only and other sections will allow you to create pages and write notes.Ģ. Within each Notebook, you can have several different Sections, then in each Section you can have several Pages. Writing Notes in OneNote on an iPad OneNote is organized into Notebooks, Sections, and Pages.

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