OneNote 2007 Question

I got an upgrade to Office 2007 today. I like OneNote, its much better than the program I had before this, but the one problem that I am having is with converting handwriting to text. I have a Wacom tablet, so I can write in OneNote, but I really really want to be able to convert what I write into text. Supposedly, this isn't possible without have a Tablet PC OS. I don't have that. I have Windows XP Professional. Any suggestions for what I can do to work around this? Thanks.

 

Maybe there's an OCR program for your tablet...?

 

What's the difference between outlook and onenote?

 

Outlook is Microsofts email software and Onenote is Microsofts note taking software.
Tim

 

Under the Tools menu, there's a "Convert Handwriting into Text" option. Could try that, unless it's grayed out.

I tried using the "Create Handwriting Only" option under Pen Mode, and attempted to convert something I wrote with the mouse into text, but it didn't work. Might just be because it couldn't recognize the poor scribble I managed to make with the mouse, but it might be worth a shot.

Hope this helps in some way.

 

How does OneNote 2007 compare to the 2003 version? I love my OneNote 2003.

 

I have tried the Convert Handwriting into Text option multiple times. I have followed the instructions from both the program, and the internet (everything I found) multiple times. The best I can find is that the instructions say on your tablet pc...

Nesse - I love OneNote 2007 (with this one exception, though 2003 would be the same). I didn't ever use OneNote 2003, but you can download a trial version online. I have started using this for all sorts of things, I think it is a good program.

 

Its a bit more than that really. Outlook has five main components:
1) E-mail
2) Contacts
3) Calendar
4) To dos
5) Notes (simple rtf text notes) which can be standalone or appended a field to the above four

OneNote is an offshoot of Outlook Notes, which became a separate program and is now in its second iteration (as "OneNote 2007" and previously "OneNote" in Outlook 2003).

OneNote is intended go beyond - to take the whole note taking thing several steps further, by including not just handwriting recogniton, but all sorts of multimedia, including audio and visuals, images etc. And then possibility of wrapping that in with project management and to-do's, to some extent.

 

have you tried Evernote? If so how well does it compare with OneNote? I've been using Evernote for a couple years now and find it almost indispensable. But I have been considering OneNote since 2007 came out.