I have tried numerous times to share notebooks with other students in my classes, but it never really worked (with the synchronization guides from OneNote).  It would be great if such synchronization could be done through OLW so that the moment one opens OneNote, the latest version of the notebook would be uploaded to the SharePoint server and the person with whom we are sharing the workspace containing this file would receive some sort of notification that a new version of the file is available. Now the problem is that OneNote theoretically allows multiple users to take notes in the same time, and it would automatically combine their notes. It would be great if it went that fine grained...

 Thanks!

I agree - this would be a great feature to be able to integrate OneNote 2007 with Office Live Workspace.

 Please seriously consider adding this functionality!

I agree, as a user of OneNote 2007 this would be a very handy feature!

Hear, hear! Yes, great idea! 

Hi,

We have received feedback from many users for OneNote integration.  We do currently allow for OneNote Sections and OneNote Single File Package documents to be uploaded and shared to OLW.  We don't have Web Preview for these file types yet but you can click on Edit and open them in OneNote 2007. 

Integration is an important theme for our service and we hope to increase the level of support for all Office applications, where appropriate.

Give it a try and tell us what you like/dislike.  Thanks to all on this thread for the feedback. 

But when will this integration be added to the Office Live Add-In?  I've downloaded the latest Office Live Add-In at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=98870 and it doesn't provide integration with OneNote 2007.

Hi DaveBlack,

That's true, we didn't provide for integration with OneNote in the first release of the Office Live Add-In.  Our goal was to first address Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.  Integration with Office is an important theme for us, however,  and is something that many users like yourself have been asking for more of.  Although we cannot guarantee support for this specific scenario,  we can say that we hope to increase the Office integration over time.

"Our goal was to first address Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.  Integration with Office is an important theme for us, however,..."  -DaveBlack 

No one that I have ever worked with (at Microsoft or elsewhere) ever really "shared" a PowerPoint presentation, except to teammates and email was just fine for that.

However, OneNote and Outlook are both technologies that cry out for full integration. OneNote is more than just a section or a page... so don't consider it integrated until you can handle a full Notebook with Section Groups, Sections, Pages and subPages as a single OneNote compressed file. As it is I have to ZIP up a notebook section just to upload it to the Workspace successfully.

 In my estimation, Microsoft Office Live Workspaces team did Microsoft and its customers a BIG disservice in putting Powerpoint integration ahead of OneNote, or ignoring one of the most useful products Microsoft Office has produced apart from Excel... but I understand that Customers Needs come far below what the Sales Team considers priority for its own use of the product. Microsoft is not alone in doing this, its just a vast disappointment to have to explain to friends and family how software projects are really prioritized and released and that sales have higher priority input into product releases than customers or product development do.

You can't honestly say that Office Integration is important unless you are talking about all of the Office 2007 Suite, instead of the Office 1995 Suite, now can you?

-Yew

Hi Yew, 

"No one that I have ever worked with (at Microsoft or elsewhere) ever really "shared" a PowerPoint presentation, except to teammates and email was just fine for that."

Powerpoint presentations are a very common file format for our customers.  The size of Powerpoint presentations has made emailing them especially difficult to pass around by email.  They are by their very nature a common communications channel used by businesses and individuals alike. 

We had to make a choice and we chose to handle the most common files first.  We have not forgotten about OneNote and we hope that you will bear with us as we work to increase support for the other file format used by Office and other applications.

I completely agree with this. It is frustrating and pushing us to Google Notebook over One Note.  OneNote is a better product, but without simple collaboration with off network partners it is a buggy whip.  In today's world collaboration is critical and OneNote is an awesome project collaboration tool, but only inside the company silo/network.  I will not open up my network to such outside vendors, but I would share a full Notebook on a specific project if I could.  Instead we are now using Google Notebook to do so and as that gets better, we will be less likely to switch back to OneNote.  This is a time issue.

Please include full OneNote support (just as in Word, Excel and PowerPoint) soon!  Thanks!