Styles

One of the new features we've implemented in OneNote 2010 is the ability to use predefined styles. This is a great way to keep formatting consistent across your notes. There are 11 new styles available for use. Here's what they look like:

Tips:

• A style is applied to the entire paragraph.
• You can select multiple paragraphs and apply the style to each of the selected paragraphs.
• You can apply the style by clicking on the desired style in the Home tab.
• Any of the following styles can be applied by pressing the appropriate keystroke:
  • Heading 1 <Ctrl + Alt + 1>
  • Heading 2 <Ctrl + Alt + 2>
  • Heading 3 <Ctrl + Alt + 3>
  • Heading 4 <Ctrl + Alt + 4>
  • Heading 5 <Ctrl + Alt + 5>
  • Heading 6 <Ctrl + Alt + 6>
  • Normal <Ctrl + Shift + N>

• With the exception of the Normal style, none of the styles are customizable.
• To customize the Normal style, click File -> Options -> select the desired font, size and color.

Comments

• Anonymous
  October 15, 2010
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• Anonymous
  May 03, 2011
  Here's another user that would relish the option to customize styles similar to the functionality available in many of the other Office products.

• Anonymous
  June 07, 2011
  I like the functionality of OneNote, but the lack of customization may wind up being too much of a straight-jacket.

• Anonymous
  August 18, 2011
  without customization, the styles are virtually useless. what if I want my headings numbered?

• Anonymous
  September 30, 2011
  The customise styles functionality was implemented in Microsoft Word 2007! Why this didn't hit One Note 2010 is beyond me. I'm glad that we now have styles with OneNote 2010, but it seems as if this is a half-implemented feature.

• Anonymous
  November 02, 2011
  I agree with the other commenters. Styles that cannot be customized are pretty much useless. Instead of releasing a half-implemented feature, you should have saved the space for more important functionality.

• Anonymous
  October 18, 2012
  For some odd reason, a very important (and simple) paragraph style, vertical space between rows, is not included in the style; only font, size and color are. It is a bit frustrating to need to manually set the 'after' space e.g., to '6' for each paragraph to show gaps between paragraphs.

• Anonymous
  October 30, 2012
  for those keeping track at home, this is still a problem and it is still a big deal and there is still no workaround. October 2012

• Anonymous
  January 12, 2014
  This seems typical of MS developers where, unfortunately, those behind the scene somehow feel as if they know more than the user. Removing the ability of a user to customize styles is a huge step backwards.

• Anonymous
  May 21, 2014
  I'm also disapointed that those styles can't be edited.

• Anonymous
  July 30, 2014
  The comment has been removed

• Anonymous
  October 12, 2014
  Would at least like a Body Text style with paragraph spacing.

• Anonymous
  May 07, 2015
  I'd like to add my name to the list of those who would use a customized style capability in OneNote on a daily basis. Please enable this functionality!

• Anonymous
  July 13, 2015
  As a new user to One Note, I thought I'd try it today.... The heck with Styles, I just want to set my font choice and have it persist. This is typical MS.   Visio is just as problematic with fonts.  Who thinks Calibri is attractive?  Ugh!