OneNote for Windows 8 supports several touch gestures and keyboard shortcuts to help you navigate its interface and commands more easily.
Touch gestures
Radial menus
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To expand a radial menu, activate its commands, and view its available sub-menus, tap its icon when it appears on the screen.
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To show additional commands related to a particular command on the radial menu, tap the arrow next to that command or swipe from the center to the edge in the direction of the arrow.
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To quickly activate any of the top-level commands of a radial menu, swipe around its icon on the screen without first expanding it. As you swipe around the icon, a tooltip confirms the command that will be applied when you take your finger off of the screen.
See Use radial menus to display OneNote commands for more information.
Navigation
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To show the navigation, place your finger on the canvas and swipe to the right.
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To display OneNote options, go to any page in your notebook, swipe from the right edge of the screen to the left, and then tap Settings.
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To reorder or move pages and sections in your notebook, drag the page or section horizontally until it comes loose, and then drop it to where you want.
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To select or change notebooks, sections, or pages, tap the notebook tab, section tab, or page tab you want.
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To quickly select a notebook, section, or page, and display the app bar, swipe horizontally across the notebook tab, section tab, or page tab you want.
Page canvas
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To quickly pan across the page, tap and hold in a blank part of the page, and then swipe in the direction you want to pan.
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To select a word, tap the text, and then drag on the circular handle that appears to make a selection.
Search and settings
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To display the Windows 8 charms bar, swipe from the right edge of the screen to the left.
App bar
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To display the OneNote for Windows 8 app bar, swipe upwards from the bottom of the screen.
Keyboard shortcuts
If you’re using a physical keyboard with OneNote for Windows 8, you can save time by using the following supported keyboard shortcuts for popular commands and tasks.
Typing, editing, and navigating notes
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To do this |
Press |
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Cut |
CTRL+X |
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Copy |
CTRL+C —or— CTRL+INSERT |
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Paste |
CTRL+V —or— SHIFT+INSERT |
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Undo |
CTRL+Z —or— ALT+BACKSPACE |
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Redo |
CTRL+Y —or— SHIFT+ALT+BACKSPACE |
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Cancel current level of an interface control |
ESC |
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Select all text and objects on a page |
CTRL+A |
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Create a new page |
CTRL+N |
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Create a new page after the current page |
CTRL+ALT+N |
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Create a new subpage |
CTRL+SHIFT+ALT+N |
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Promote a subpage to a page |
CTRL+ALT+{ (OPEN BRACE) |
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Demote a page to a subpage |
CTRL+ALT+} (CLOSE BRACE) |
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Create a new section |
CTRL+T |
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Mark a page as read or unread |
CTRL+Q |
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Navigate to the previous page in the list |
CTRL+PAGE UP |
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Navigate to the next page in the list |
CTRL+PAGE DOWN |
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Navigate to the first page in the current section |
ALT+HOME |
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Navigate to the last page in the current section |
ALT+END |
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Navigate to the previously viewed page |
ALT+LEFT ARROW |
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Navigate to the next previously viewed page |
ALT+RIGHT ARROW |
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Toggle the notebook list on or off |
ALT+F1 |
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Navigate to the title of the current page |
CTRL+SHIFT+T |
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Navigate to the destination of a link |
CTRL+ENTER (while cursor is on link text) |
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Cycle through user interface elements |
F6 (press one or more times) |
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Zoom in on the current page |
CTRL+PLUS SIGN (Numpad only) |
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Zoom out on the current page |
CTRL+MINUS SIGN (Numpad only) |
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Insert the current date |
ALT+SHIFT+D |
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Insert the current time |
ALT+SHIFT+T |
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Insert the current date and time |
ALT+SHIFT+F |
Formatting text
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To do this |
Press |
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Make selected text bold |
CTRL+B |
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Make selected text italic |
CTRL+I |
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Underline selected text |
CTRL+U |
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Superscript selected text |
CTRL+SHIFT+= (EQUAL SIGN) |
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Highlight selected text |
CTRL+SHIFT+H |
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Toggle text highlighting on or off |
CTRL+ALT+H |
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Copy text formatting |
CTRL+SHIFT+C |
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Paste text formatting |
CTRL+SHIFT+V |
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Apply the “To Do” tag to the current line of text |
CTRL+1 |
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Apply the “Important” tag to the current line of text |
CTRL+2 |
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Apply the “Question” tag to the current line of text |
CTRL+3 |
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Remove note tags from the current line of text |
CTRL+0 |
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Increase Font Size by 1 point |
CTRL+SHIFT+. (PERIOD) |
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Decrease Font Size by 1 point |
CTRL+SHIFT+, (COMMA) |
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Align the current paragraph to the left |
SHIFT+ALT+LEFT ARROW |
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Align the current paragraph to the right |
SHIFT+ALT+RIGHT ARROW |
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Start or end a bulleted list item |
CTRL+. (PERIOD) —or— CTRL+SHIFT+L |
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Start or end a numbered list item |
CTRL+? —or— CTRL+SHIFT+O |
Searching, sharing, and syncing notes
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To do this |
Press |
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Search notes |
CTRL+E |
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Share current page |
WINDOWS KEY+H |
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Manually sync the current notebook |
SHIFT+F9 |
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Manually sync all notebooks |
F9 |
Working with tables
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To do this |
Press |
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Insert a new row below |
CTRL+ENTER |
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Insert a new column to the right |
CTRL+ALT+R |
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Insert a new column to the left |
CTRL+ALT+E |
