There is a useful Firefox extension that allows you to send webclippings from Firefox to OneNote. It was developed by Gmx Lee for OneNote 2003. You can get it directly from his website. Even though it was developed for OneNote 2003, it also works with OneNote 2007.

Unfortunately, the latest Firefox version it supports is 1.5. To get it to work with later Firefox versions, you have to edit the file so that it will install in later versions. Editing the file isn’t everyone’s thing, so I decided to provide the edited file as download here.

Download the edited Clip to OneNote Firefox (up to V3) extension

Note: This is not my extension! You are on your own with it. I will not provide any support nor answer any questions nor help you using it!

You can now use RibbonCustomizer to add macros to your Ribbon in Access, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint and Word. The support in Outlook is flaky, so I might have to remove it in a later build.

If you want to give it a try, download the latest beta version.

Update: In my excitement about posting this, I forgot to mention how to actually use it

To add a macro, go into the Customize Ribbon dialog, then either create a new group or select an already created one. Switch to the Customize Group tab. On the right hand side, select Custom Items from the drop down, then pick Macro and click Add Command. After that, you have to provide the name of the macro and then its label.

My girlfriend and I have a shared OneNote 2007 notebook to keep track of our move to Germany. That particular notebook is stored on my desktop and available to use on my desktop, my tablet and my girlfriend’s laptop. Right now though, my desktop is sitting in a shipping container in a US port waiting for the ship to take it to Germany while its hard drives went over the Atlantic in my carry on luggage.

When I got to Germany, I realized that our notebook would not sync anymore because the server containing the notebook (my desktop) was not there. Considering that this is the notebook we use for our move, keeping it in sync is very important right now.

I figured I could ask my fellow OneNote MVPs and the members of the OneNote team if they had any suggestions what to do in this situation. The biggest problem was that changes had been made to the notebook on both computers, so the two copies were out of sync. If they had not been out of sync, I would have just created a new shared notebook (stored on my tablet) and copied the sections from the current one into it. But with them out of sync, I would have been forced to manually go through each section and page…

Thankfully, Daniel Escapa, a OneNote program manager, had a great suggestion that worked flawlessly:

1. Find a USB key
2. On you Tablet right-click on the notebook and choose properties
3. Choose to sync the notebook to a new location, and have it saved to the USB key
4. Try the same on the other machine

After following these steps, I now have the notebook synced again on both laptops via the USB stick. I could have chosen a network share (hosted on my tablet) instead of the USB stick, but then I couldn’t keep them in sync when both laptops are not on the same LAN (which will be the case while we are apartment hunting in Berlin).

So if you ever find yourself with several OneNote clients that hold the same notebook offline, but with no access to the server containing the notebook, now you know what to do.

Thanks Daniel for this suggestion!

Just a quick note that the forums are now integrated into the main layout of the website. See it for yourself: http://pschmid.net/office2007/forums

As usual, any feedback is appreciated.

After six years of living in Bethlehem, PA, USA, I am moving away. I have accepted a job as business consultant in Berlin, Germany. I will remain a Ph.D. Candidate here at Lehigh University as I will finish up my degree over the next two years.

My girlfriend and I are moving together. We are both extremely excited and are looking forward to our new life in Berlin.

This move is keeping me quite busy right now, so updates to my blog, forums and RibbonCustomizer will be sparse over the next few weeks. When I find some time, I will work on adding macro functionality to RibbonCustomizer though. I have parts of that already implemented.

Back to the move. The packers are coming tomorrow…