

Give it a try, it’s a useful trick to know. Note: As well as the hidden text needing to be indented someway ‘beneath’ the top level, there cannot be any white space between the top level and the indented text You now see a small next to the text that can be used to expand the hidden text.
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This allows you to free up valuable page space.

An often overlooked feature in OneNote is the ability to collapse and expand hierarchical text. Also note the little + which can be used to reveal the hidden text. Note the small arrow/handle at the top left. Put your cursor over this, double-click and hey presto all the text below has been hidden. An entire section of text hidden using the collapse feature. To add text to your slide, click inside a text placeholder and start typing. After setup your shortcut, press Fn + F1 to F8 key to insert the corresponding bullet symbol. Then hover your mouse over the top-level text and notice the little handle that appears. If the keyboard shortcuts do not work, you may need to first set automatic numbering or bullets. a bullet point below some ‘higher’ textĪnother example, this time selectively collapsing text.indented under the top level text using a tab.Get it WorkingĮnter your content as usual but take care to ensure that the text you want to hide is ‘lower’ in the hierarchy for that paragraph. You simply write what you think it is and then expand the text to see if you got it right.

However, by collapsing the text first there is no ‘accidental’ peeking at the answer. Like you normally do you’d write your questions out and put the answers below. Say you’re cramming for an exam and you’ve a list of sample questions and answers. Using this trick is also a great way to effectively implement a question / answer scenario for your studies. This allows you to free up valuable page space by hiding content that you don’t need to always see. Also note the little which can be used to reveal the hidden text.An often overlooked feature in OneNote is the ability to collapse and expand hierarchical text. Note the small arrow/handle at the top left. An entire section of text hidden using the collapse feature.
