"Insert link to file"- where did this go?

Anonymous
2013-02-06T22:04:23+00:00

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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  1. Anonymous
    2013-11-20T16:43:08+00:00

    I agree. . .the original method of creating links by dragging/dropping was incredibly useful and needs to be re-instated.  The work arounds and macros are not sufficient.

    Thank you.

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  2. Anonymous
    2013-11-09T20:51:31+00:00

    Francesco, the macro is now available for download at: http://omeratay.com/onetastic/?r=macroland&id=68DE7F053DA4432EA03B1813F9B0B92A

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  3. Anonymous
    2013-11-08T20:22:33+00:00

    I agree the original 2010 functionality should be restored where we see the path to the file in a <file:> tag.

    GTTG

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  4. Anonymous
    2013-11-08T08:29:57+00:00

    Hello Omer, 

    thank you for the hint and for your work in OneNote and Onetastic ;-)

    I've submitted the macro to Macroland, please note that it doesn't work with Chrome settled as std web browser, but it was successful with Firefox.

    Francesco

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  5. Anonymous
    2013-11-07T16:40:43+00:00

    Francesco, see this for how to set up a keyboard shortcut for a macro: http://omeratay.com/onetastic/?i=shortcuts-for-macros

    and if you submit this macro to Macroland, people can just download it from there.

    Thanks,

    Omer

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