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I'm an attorney, and I created a great litigation and trial-management system using only OneNote. We put it to use in a large "mass action" case with over fifty plaintiffs and tens of thousands of exhibits. The system allowed us to completely outmaneuver the plaintiffs at trial, and we were able to line up exhibits, deposition citations, and both direct and cross examination questions from a single program. We all credit a great deal of our defense verdict to the system.
The key feature that let us build the various pages for trial quickly was the ability to drag and drop exhibit pdfs into the onenote pages as links to files. Due to the sheer volume of exhibits, as well as the ease of using tables, links were far more effective than inserting the files directly, and certainly more effective than inserting printouts.
With OneNote 2013, this mission-critical feature appears to be missing. I can only insert the file, or insert a printout. I don't want to do either- I want to insert a link. I know that I can insert links using the manual "insert link" function, but that is slower and more error prone than the simplicity of the previous versions. Am I missing a key option to trigger? Or is this a missing feature from OneNote 2013? If the latter, I suspect we will stick with 2010....
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The other point to note here is that this functionality is as it was previously in Outlook 2013 and the other office apps. The only one that changed behaviour and lost the ability to insert a link is OneNote 2013.
There should at least be some sort of consistency across the suite.
I second the need to bring this functionality back. I would expect to be "forced" to paperclip a copy of my actual document in a physical paper notebook, but why force me to duplicate my data by putting a forked copy of a document into OneNote? This is fine if you're working with data that exists only in OneNote, but not at all useful when OneNote is simply another piece of a larger workflow.
I don't consider the workarounds helpful at all. They take me almost as much time as it would to break out my college-ruled notebook and write down the full path to my file. In my book, this is the equivalent of removing the ability to search OneNote from the Start Menu (don't laugh; this functionality was removed in Outlook 2013).
That said, thank you in advance for listening to customer feedback and bringing this time-saving feature back.
I know, that's the way it works ..
Bernd
Right clicking the document and selecting 'open original' doesn't open an embedded copy for me - it opens the document in its original linked location (not a temporary folder) and I can update the original accordingly.
If you really want to retain the original (why ?) you shouldn't use embedded files.
Bernd