Importing a PowerPoint presentation into OneNote involves opening OneNote, going to the desired notebook, and choosing Insert > File Printout in OneNote for Windows. The slides appear as printout images that you can annotate or rearrange on the page.
If you want to enhance your note-taking experience and create more interactive and engaging notes, you can easily insert a PowerPoint presentation into your OneNote notebook.
In this quick guide, we’ll show you how to insert PowerPoint into OneNote, step by step, so you can create dynamic and comprehensive notes that help you better understand and remember the information you’re studying or presenting.
Steps to Insert Powerpoint Into Onenote
Importing a PowerPoint presentation into OneNote is a seamless process that allows you to easily access your slides for note-taking purposes. By following these step-by-step instructions, you can quickly import your PowerPoint presentations into OneNote and enhance your note-taking experience:
1. Launch the current OneNote app for Windows and open the notebook and page where you want the PowerPoint slides. The separate OneNote for Windows 10 app is read-only, so use OneNote on Windows to insert them.
2. Click on the ‘Insert’ tab in the upper menu.
3. Select ‘File Printout’ from the Insert tab. Some older ribbons group this under ‘File’, as shown in the screenshot; in the current Windows app, the command is Insert > File Printout. Choose File Attachment instead only if you want a file icon rather than visible slides.
4. A file explorer window will open, allowing you to locate and select the PowerPoint file you want to import.
5. Click ‘Insert’ to add the selected PowerPoint file to your OneNote notebook.
The slides from your PowerPoint file will show up in OneNote as printout images, which makes them easy to annotate or rearrange on the page. They are not editable PowerPoint slides. Larger decks may take a few seconds to render, so give OneNote a moment to finish processing before you start writing on top of them.
Working with PowerPoint Slides in OneNote
Once you have imported the PowerPoint slides into OneNote, it’s time to maximize the benefits of this integration by working efficiently with the slides in OneNote. Here is a guide on how to work with PowerPoint slides within OneNote for productive note-taking:
1. Ensure the PowerPoint presentation is properly imported into OneNote.
2. With the slides inserted as images, you can take notes beside them or draw annotations over them. To keep an image from shifting while you write, right-click it and choose ‘Set Picture as Background’.
3. For added emphasis or clarity, use the ‘Draw’ tab to select various shapes and colors for highlighting or circling important points within the slide.
4. Rearrange slides to better suit your note-taking flow by clicking and dragging the slide images within the OneNote page.
5. To keep your notes organized, consider adding tags with relevant keywords to each slide or section of your notes.
Conclusion
Pulling your PowerPoint decks into OneNote gives you a tidy way to keep slides and notes side by side, which makes the study or review session feel less scattered. If the notebook is stored on OneDrive or SharePoint, your notes can sync across devices and you can share them with collaborators.
Give yourself an edge in productivity by maximizing the potential of PowerPoint and OneNote together, transforming the way you capture, share, and use presentations and notes.
