But "Productivity Luddites" and "Redmond wasters" are !

 

 

Looks like those bright boys at the "Aid to productivity"  factory have done it again - they've switched off the productivity machine, or, at least, a part of it.

 

Let me explain.

 

In the latest version of One Note (2016) they appear to have removed the facility, available in previous versions of One Note, whereby you could, using a couple of key depressions, print and save a document from an open Word/PDF file or web Page directly into  One Note, in so doing creating a fresh One Note page which would be automatically saved and sync'd.

 

I found this was a real boon to productivity.

 

Apparently, this function is still there in the new version of One Note, but  unlike previous versions, it is not the default and  is well hidden away and has to be loaded as an "Add-in" using an option way down in One note's "File" menu tab.

 

According to web reports, there's been no official notification of this apparently arbitrary and unconsulted change and even staff manning the MS helpline were unaware of the change. People, particularly States-side, are ****ed.

 

I shouldn't think this is a securiy issue, otherwise the add-in wouldn't have been still included.

 

Of course, when I attempted to load the "Add-in" I find that the mobile version of One Note loaded onto my 2016 Linx tablet has a truncated menu tab for file which has no add-in listed. However, it does provide for importing a PDF or similar from a file previously saved on your system. Thus turning a two key depression "On-the-fly" operation into a multi - key trial of intellect, patience and endurance.

 

They really are the World's biggest doofer dumb****s over there.

 

Anybody know of a way of re-instating One Note (Lite version) as a printing "Device" in Windows ?

 

Cheers.

 

 

Nick

 

 

Those bright boys at the aid to productivity  factory have done it again.

Edited 8 September, 20169 yr by Clunkclick

To me pretty much every change MS makes these days is s***e...   and all targeted at making life actually less easy and more complicated!

"Genuii" - what those? The plural of "genius" is "genii" (or "geniuses" if you're not a classicist).

"Genuii" - what those? The plural of "genius" is "genii" (or "geniuses" if you're not a classicist).

Cheers. Subconscious was already on genuflect ! Any views, on the main issues?

 

Nick

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2016-onenote/send-to-onenote-tool-2016/44ba4df1-35b7-45b1-a18b-932771b07793?page=12

 

I love it !.

 

When hoards of users start posting  moans on a Microsoft "Community" forum,  a whole  load of Microsoft fan-boy claques  (Presumably paid) start popping-up to do damage limitation  - the best work around they could come up with is to use the "Snipping tool" - and the dummy complainers  swallow it !

 

Everyday, in everyway, Microsoft ( And perhaps moderncorporate capitalism) is becoming more and more like the archetypal iron curtain state i.e. shut-up and take what you're given.

 

No one will say it, so I will. Somebody's politically subverting MS.

 

Donald !

 

 

Nick

Edited 8 September, 20169 yr by Clunkclick

Cheers. Subconscious was already on genuflect ! Any views, on the main issues?

 

Nick

Never used the package, but I've held for years that Mickeyshaft's periodic redesigns of the user interface were an attempt to hide the lack of any actual improvements in the software!

So many of these stupid decisions from MS these days.

 

I'm convinced Nadella is a Google plant.

So many of these stupid decisions from MS these days.

 

I'm convinced Nadella is a Google plant.

 

 

I think you have the plant bit right, but the potted variety - in BOTH meanings of the word!!

Obviously, MS have configured the  One Note  experience to fit phone use and to make use of the Print to PDF function incorporated in Windows 10.

 

So that's resulted in the all-in-one complex functions  like the original  "Print to One Note" to be broken down into  a series of  discrete separate steps that can be achieved by one touch on a smart phone screen/key pad. But in so doing, its taking about three times as long to complete the operation on laptops/desktop

 

Originally,  you could simply open say a Word file, select "Print to One Note", the envitable waiting symbol would appear shortly followed by  a Window popping up. This  showed a list of One Note sections that could be printed to. You'd select a section and then select a page within the section and then key OK. And that was it, the page(s) would be printed to the selected One Note page.

 

Now, with One Note, you open the application and select "Print to PDF"  and OK and the page(s) get saved as a PDF file in your "Documents" folder. You then move to the One Note front page and select  the section and page where you want to save the page you wish to import . Then select "Insert" and "File" from the menu. Then select either "PDF" or "Attachment", then select the particular file, press OK and the PDF in the documents folder gets copied to your selected One Note folder. However, the original is left in the documents folder, necessitating housekeeping. Way more complicated  and slower.

 

i can understand MS configuring the mobile version of ON to do this, but why bugger-up the desktop version ?

 

 

Nick

Edited 9 September, 20169 yr by Clunkclick

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i can understand MS configuring the mobile version of ON to do this, but why bugger-up the desktop version ?

 

 

Nick

 

Now the experience is consistently bad across all platforms as per the principle of universal apps = project success