Can OneNote be programmed?

Question

Hi,

In OneNote 2010,

1.    There is no “Developer Tab” as in other Office products.

2.    There is no book entitled “OneNote Programming” by an Amazon.com search.

3.    There is however an OneNote Developer Center in MSDN. However, I cannot find a development forum.

Can OneNote be programmed? For example, I would like to automate some formatting operations such as adjusting paragraph spacing, as well as controlling fonts and highlighting. How can these done programmatically? Is there a VBA Editor for OneNote? Or should it be done in Visual Studio? Which version of Visual Studio?

And could anyone give link to examples of OneNote programming?

Bob

Answer 1

A helpful link, I think:

http://www.malteahrens.com/blog/howto-onenote-dev/#more-100

Bernd

Answer 2

Exactly what is it that you want to do?

Bernd found more than I did.

There is no "Developer" tab in OneNote, so no VB macro language. But as the article Bernd listed points out there is an API that you can use to access OneNote. One of the linked articles goes into a little detail:http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/ff796230.aspx

Answer 3

For any latecomers to this thread, check out the free meta-macro tool, Onetastic:

http://www.omeratay.com/onetastic

Several macros are available for download. Pretty simplistic, but for day-to-day "powertools" within OneNote usage, it might suffice. Would not enable any heavy customization though.

Answer 4

Rohn and Bernd,

Thanks for links.

First, I found OneNote formatting is not as powerful as Word, and wish to have more control over it.

Second, I wish to add some customized sorting ability (still sort by date, but more options).

I will try methods described on these pages.

Bob