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How To Insert Powerpoint Into Onenote (Quick Guide)

Importing a PowerPoint presentation into OneNote involves opening OneNote, navigating to the desired notebook, and choosing the PowerPoint file from the ‘Insert’ tab. Once the slides are in OneNote, you can work with them as you would with other content, like adding annotations or modifying their order.

If you want to enhance your note-taking experience and create more interactive and engaging notes, you can easily insert a PowerPoint presentation into your OneNote notebook.

In this quick guide, we’ll show you how to insert PowerPoint into OneNote, step by step, so you can create dynamic and comprehensive notes that help you better understand and remember the information you’re studying or presenting.

Steps to Insert Powerpoint Into Onenote

Importing a PowerPoint presentation into OneNote is a seamless process that allows you to easily access your slides for note-taking purposes. By following these step-by-step instructions, you can quickly import your PowerPoint presentations into OneNote and enhance your note-taking experience:

1. Launch OneNote and navigate to the desired notebook where you want to import the PowerPoint slides.

2. Click on the ‘Insert’ tab in the upper menu.

3. In the Insert menu, select ‘File’ and then choose ‘File Printout’.

4. A file explorer window will open, allowing you to locate and select the PowerPoint file you want to import.

5. Click ‘Insert’ to add the selected PowerPoint file to your OneNote notebook.

Your PowerPoint slides will now appear in OneNote as images, making them easier to work with for note-taking and facilitating annotations or modifications.

Working with PowerPoint Slides in OneNote

Once you have imported the PowerPoint slides into OneNote, it’s time to maximize the benefits of this integration by working efficiently with the slides in OneNote. Here is a guide on how to work with PowerPoint slides within OneNote for productive note-taking:

1. Ensure the PowerPoint presentation is properly imported into OneNote.

2. With the slides inserted as images, you can easily take notes or make annotations directly on them.

3. For added emphasis or clarity, use the ‘Draw’ tab to select various shapes and colors for highlighting or circling important points within the slide.

4. Rearrange slides to better suit your note-taking flow by clicking and dragging the slide images within the OneNote page.

5. To keep your notes organized, consider adding tags with relevant keywords to each slide or section of your notes.

Integrating PowerPoint presentations into OneNote offers a powerful and efficient way to manage your slides and notes, simultaneously enhancing your overall experience. Embracing this integration not only keeps your notes organized but also facilitates collaboration and syncs your work across devices for easy access at any time.

Give yourself an edge in productivity by maximizing the potential of PowerPoint and OneNote together, transforming the way you capture, share, and utilize presentations and notes.

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How to Import PowerPoint to OneNote

With Microsoft OneNote, you can easily import a PowerPoint file into a new page so you can review your presentation, make notes or change the slide order without affecting the original PowerPoint file. If the purpose of importing PowerPoint into OneNote is for note-taking, an alternative is to link a OneNote page to the original PowerPoint presentation file as you review it in PowerPoint.

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Open the OnePage Notebook where you want the PowerPoint presentation to appear and press Ctrl-N to create a new blank page. Type a title in the Title field.

Click the Insert tab and then click the File Printout icon. Navigate to the PowerPoint presentation file and click Insert . It may take a minute or so for the PowerPoint file to be loaded to the OneNote page, depending on the size of the file.

Scroll down to see all of the slides. Each slide is embedded in the page as a picture.

Edit the slides just as you would edit any image in OneNote . Drag a file to move its position on the page or drag a corner to resize it. Right-click a slide to copy or cut it. Click the Link option to link the slide's image to a website or to the original PowerPoint file on your computer; alternately, you can link the slide to OneDrive , the Microsoft cloud storage service that comes with Office 2013.

Linking Notes to a PPT File

Launch OneNote . Click the Review tab and then the Linked Notes icon. A dialog box opens, asking you to select a OneNote page to store the notes. You can choose any existing page or create a new page in any OneNote notebook. A new OneNote page opens on the right of the screen, not attached to the main OneNote window. Enter a title for the page.

Launch PowerPoint and select the presentation file that you want to make notes for. PowerPoint opens on the left side of the screen so that the OneNote Linked Note pane is still visible. As you type in the OneNote Linked Note, a PowerPoint logo appears beside the current line, indicating that the note is linked to the PowerPoint file. When you're finished, close OneNote and PowerPoint.

Open the Linked Note at any time. To launch the PowerPoint file linked to the note, click the Link icon in the upper-right corner, select Linked File(s) and then click the PowerPoint logo. To add new notes, click the Start Taking Linked Notes option in the Linked File(s) drop-down menu.

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Collaborate on PowerPoint Presentations in OneNote

by Tom Bunzel — If you’re in IT, sooner or later you need to present to a team or get colleagues’ feedback on a project that inevitably is shown in PowerPoint format. If you don’t have SharePoint (or even if you do), it is frequently necessary to show your slides – and to practice your presentation and discuss what you are going to say – with your associates or your team.

So what’s the best way to get the show in front of other people for their comments?

Sending your presentation to OneNote and beginning a shared session to discuss your slides and the project at hand is probably your fastest, most efficient course of action.

Microsoft OneNote, perhaps the most under-appreciated program in the Office suite, lets you organize and put comments into its Pages with relative ease. (If you think that OneNote is just for table computer users, you are missing the boat). OneNote installs a printer driver that you can access from PowerPoint to send your presentation directly to OneNote.

This is the easiest and fastest way to get your slides into OneNote.

In OneNote the slides go into a section for Unfiled Notes (you can move this Page to another Section to reorganize the content). If the slides are too large, zoom out or resize them.

The key here is that you can now open Live Sharing Section > Start Sharing Current Session under “Share”, and when you go through the short Wizard in the Task Pane, you can send the password and IP address to the shared session to others, who just need to open OneNote’s Join Sharing Session Task Pane, and enter the information to join the session. At this point all session members can annotate and comment on the presentation as it appears in OneNote on every session participant’s screen.

To discuss the various slides you would obviously use a telephone conference call, and this is a great scenario for getting instant feedback without having to email the presentation to other people, post it on a server, or go through a review process.

OneNote also interfaces really well with Outlook, so that you can easily assign Tasks from the shared OneNote session and have other team members be accountable for fulfilling them. And if you’ve loaded a series of presentations into OneNote, it’s easy to locate a specific slide using Search. OneNote 2007 also has a set of “Tags” that you can use or customize for quick reference to portions of your notes, including the slides from PowerPoint.

Just remember to use the Print capability within PowerPoint to send your slides directly to OneNote’s Unfiled Notes Section, and then start a new shared session, to easily collaborate on a PowerPoint presentation with colleagues or associates.

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Microsoft OneNote is the best software for taking notes digitally. Use this OneNote tutorial to learn everything you need to know for creating the most organized notes.

The main information in this tutorial applies to using OneNote for Windows.

How to Create a Notebook, Sections, and Pages

Notebooks are going to be on the left side of the screen, followed by columns for sections and pages. To create a new notebook in OneNote, simply right-click on the list of notebooks and select New Notebook. The same goes for the sections and pages. 

How to Rename a Page

You can rename a section by right-clicking on the name, but to rename a page, open it and type the title at the top. 

How to Use Quick Notes

To choose a notebook for Quick Notes, go to the settings button on the top right-hand corner of the window and click Options. In there, you can check all the current settings for quick notes and choose a notebook for them.

How to Change the View in OneNote

You can take notes on full-screen or half-screen with the notebooks, sections, and pages displayed. To switch between views, go to the View tab and select Navigation Panes. You can also access Navigation Pane settings by right-clicking anywhere in the window.

How to Work with Multiple Accounts

Add both your personal and work accounts. Click your name, which is at the top of the left column of the window, to pull up Account where you can add an account.

How to Use Tell Me in OneNote

Tell Me is a quick way to search for any tool in Microsoft. When using OneNote, the Tell Me feature is in the top right corner next to the Share button. Search by keyword or phrases and keep it general for the most suggestions.

How to Add a Default Font

Get your OneNote account up and running, then set a default font for it to use every time you open MS OneNote. Find your Options again through the settings button in the top right corner and scroll down to Default Font. Change it to the font you use the most.

How to Add Checkboxes to a To-Do List

While you are typing a note, you can add a checkbox to the current line of text by clicking the Tag as To Do tool. Hit enter to keep adding boxes with items in the list.

Password Protection on a Mac

On Macs, to password protect a note, you can right-click on a section and select the Password Protection option. It is also under the View tab.

How to Insert a Video

Copy and paste a video link as normal. OneNote pulls up the video clip automatically and displays it on the current note page. You can paste the video link anywhere on the page.

How to Customize Your Pages

Customization will make your note pages easier to view. Change the color or lines on a page by using the View tab. Rule Lines will make the note appear as a regular lined notepad.

How to Insert a Table

Go to Insert > Table. You can move the mouse to select the boxes according to the size of the table you want. That way, you use the table and navigate around it relatively the same as in Word.

How to Insert PowerPoint PDF in OneNote

You can insert a saved PDF PowerPoint from your computer by selecting Insert > File. When you insert the PDF as an attachment, it puts a shortcut link in the note, but if you insert a PDF printout, it will display the presentation slides large on the page.

A PDF printout of a slide show in OneNote looks like this:

How to Insert Images and Links

Images are inserted from the Insert tab as well. Click Picture and select whether you want to insert from a file on your computer or from online. If inserting an image from the computer, find the image file in the window that pops up and click Open.

To insert a link, press the Link button instead and type in the text you want displayed along with the URL address. If the URL is good, the link will be active and have its own box that you can move around the page. It should look like this:

You can also insert Online Pictures. Search general topics, and it will pull up images that are free to use. Click and drag online images that you find right into your notes.

How to Record and Insert Audio

The Record button on the Insert tab will start recording immediately after clicking. You can view the time at the top and stop recording by pressing the Stop button. The recording inserts straight into the current note page.

How to Connect Outlook with Microsoft OneNote

Another item on the Insert tab is Meeting Details. Click this feature to access the meeting details from Outlook. You can sign into your Microsoft Account straight from the Meeting Details feature.

Research and Citations

Find research and add the source as a citation in a note by pressing the Researcher button on the Insert tab. The right pane lets you search for a topic, and then when you open an item, you can click “Add this source as a citation,” and it will insert into the note page.

How to Add Math Equations on OneNote

Click the Math button in the Insert tab. Type an equation and then find the solution using the Math panel that pops up when the equation is selected.

How to Search for a Note

Use the search tool to find any notes within a notebook.

How to Use Drawing Tools on OneNote

The Draw tab on OneNote is something you can use to draw directly on a note. Use the pens at the top or add pens using the plus button next to them. There is also an eraser, highlighter, and shapes that you can use.

Ink to Shape

Select Ink to Shape to have drawn shapes automatically transform into a perfect shape. It will clean up the notes and make them easier to see.

Ink to Text

You can also change ink to text. Make sure to select the drawing first, then click Ink to Text.

How to Get OneNote Web Clipper

OneNote Web Clipper is a Chrome extension, so you will have to go to the Chrome Web Store and add it to your browser. This extension acts as a tool that uses OneNote functions to save clips from websites to your notes.

To use the extension once you have it, click the small OneNote icon on the top right corner of your browser. It should pull up a clip from the current website. Type a small description above the clip. Use the Location drop-down menu to choose where the clip will go in your notes, and then select Clip.

How to Save Emails to OneNote

You can add a note to your OneNote account by sending a message from your email. Add email accounts to your OneNote by using onenote.com/emailtoonenote . Once you have everything set up, you can then send an email from your email straight to OneNote by putting the recipient as [email protected] .

How to Publish Pages and Share Notebooks

Publish a note page from OneNote by clicking the Share button in the corner of the window.

Copy the link it provides, then make sure to stop sharing when you do not want that person to access the page anymore.

How to Print

To print a page, use the Options button with three dots to select Print. A print preview will show up from there where you can choose the correct printer and change print settings such as orientation and color mode.

Go Mobile on OneNote

You can use OneNote on most mobile devices or online. If you know your Microsoft login information, you will be able to see all of the notes you have saved.

How to Permanently Delete

To permanently delete notes that are still in your OneNote account, you can do so by going to OneDrive, which you can find through the Microsoft website when you log in.

Find the note by looking at Recent or Files and right-click it and select Remove.

Using OneNote for Mac

OneNote on Macs switches better between laptop, iPad, and an iPhone with little differences in how it looks – compared to Windows. You will need this version if you typically use a mac laptop, desktop, or tablet.

Add a Notebook

On a Mac computer, you can add a notebook by pressing the down arrow by the name of your current open notebook and clicking the plus sign in the top right corner of the drop-down menu. It will look like this:

Change Paper Color

On the View tab, change the color of paper for a note by clicking the Paper Color button on the left side of the ribbon. Choose a color, and it will apply to the current note.

Change Paper Style

You will find the Paper Style button right next to where you changed the paper color, under the View tab. This changes the lines on the paper. Notes usually do not have any lines, but you can add regular notebook lines or gridlines to make the notes easier to read.

Tags are one of the benefits of using OneNote on a Mac computer. When you click one of the tags, it adds to the current text to show if it is important. You can find these tags under the View tab:

Insert a Table

Inserting a table in OneNote on a Mac is very similar to Windows. It is in the same location – Table on the Insert tab. The only difference is that there are more quick options in the top ribbon for inserting rows and deleting columns.

To share a notebook with someone from OneNote on your Mac, click the little share button in the top right corner of the window and enter the names or email addresses of the people you want to add.

Using OneNote App on iPad

Microsoft Office offers its software in apps, as well. When you operate OneNote on an iPad, use these tips.

Creating Notebooks, Sections, and Pages

To add a notebook on OneNote on your iPad, tap the plus by Notebook on the bottom. Type a name and tap Create. You can add sections and pages the same way.

To delete, open the section and tap the trashcan symbol at the bottom.

Quick Notes Location

Tap the gear symbol at the top of your OneNote window and go to Quick Notes. This will show you where your notes are automatically going.

Basic Note-Taking

Tap anywhere on a note page to type a note. Use the font and color options at the top of the screen in the Home tab to change anything you need for notes. Use the star tag and other tags to mark important notes for better visualization.

Inserting Files, Images and Pdfs

Use the Insert tab to add images, tables, and other items, the same way as you would with using OneNote on the computer. For inserting tables, you can click Insert or Delete at the top to add rows or columns.

When you insert pictures using the camera, you can select Whiteboard, Photo, or Document to adjust the color and brightness settings automatically.

Files are easiest to insert on iPad when you use Google Drive or OneDrive. Make sure your cloud accounts are on. To insert a file, select the Insert tab then File.

Click Link to insert a hyperlink.

Use the Draw tab to quickly take notes by drawing with your finger or a stylus pen. If you want to use a stylus, tap the stylus icon on the right and turn off the Draw with Touch option. Make sure to click Other Stylus to tell OneNote how you hold your pen.

Make the note full screen by clicking the two arrows in the top right corner of the screen, to make drawing easier.

View Options

On the View tab, you can change the zoom and page width, as well as the style of the paper. You can add password protection to a note section from here, as well.

Adding the OneNote Widget

Pull down the top screen on your iPad and edit the widgets. OneNote should be under the list of Other Widgets, click the plus to add it so that it will be easy to access in the future.

Searching in OneNote

You can quickly search all your notebooks in OneNote by tapping the search tool icon in the top left corner of the screen.

Using Split-Screen and Taking a Snapshot

With the iPad turned sideways, pull from the right side to open another app or book and take notes at the same time while it is in split-screen.

You can also take a screenshot by holding down the home and sleep buttons. Insert the screenshot straight into your notes.

Taking Notes with PDF Printouts

Insert a PDF printout from a slide show, which you can insert from a cloud drive. You can draw directly over the printout in your notes.

Deleting a OneNote Notebook

To delete a OneNote notebook, you have to go to the OneDrive app. Find the document for the note you want to delete and hold down your finger until the trashcan icon pops up, and then you can click it to delete the note.

Other Versions of OneNote

The OneNote setup is similar on most computers, but there are some variances in the tools when using OneNote 2016 or OneNote on a Mac.

OneNote 2016

OneNote 2016 looks different from OneNote, but it also has some extra tools. You can use the Find Tags tool to find tagged notes quickly. You can also connect to Excel spreadsheets easier and link notes.

OneNote Online

OneNote Online has all the same features as the downloaded version of OneNote, and you can use it for free without Office 365. However, you do need a Microsoft account.

Tips for Using OneNote

Use these tips to help you make the most out of your OneNote software.

1. Ink Math Equations

In your Drawing tab, you can write an equation using one of the drawing tools. If you select the equation you drew and press the Math button, you can see the answer as well as steps for solving.

2. Playback Notes

You can replay notes by clicking the Replay button on the View tab. Click the Replay tool button, then click and drag to select the area of notes to see an animation of how it came together.

3. Ink to Text

After writing a note in the Draw tab, click the Ink to Text button in the ribbon to change the drawing to regular font text automatically.

4. User Researcher

Through the Insert tab, you can use the Researcher tool to find sources for different topics quickly. When you find something you would like to add to the current note page, click the plus button.

5. Immersive Reader

In the View tab, you can find Immersive Reader. When you use this tool, it pulls up selected text and reads it to you. You can change the text size to help you focus on what is read, as well.

6. OneNote Web Clipper

We talked about this early on in this article, but it is such a vital tool for making the most out of OneNote. OneNote Web Clipper allows you to clip screenshots and information from web pages and insert them right into your notes without even leaving your browser window.

7. Save Emails to OneNote

Send emails to OneNote to save as a note. Make sure your information is set up with OneNote, and you have the correct email address on your account. Then, you can use the email: [email protected] to send directly to a note.

8. Embedded Links

You can copy links from presentations on Sway, articles online, and even audio from Spotify. Just copy a link and go to your note, right-click and select paste. OneNote pulls up a clip or snippet from the link you added.

9. Send PowerPoints to OneNote

When you finish creating a presentation in PowerPoint, you can send it over to MS OneNote by going to Print and selecting “Send to OneNote” instead of one of your printers. You can do the same action in Microsoft Word by sending documents to OneNote, as well.

10. Linking Notebooks

Right-click on a notebook or section and click the option, Copy Link to Section. This action adds a link to the current note page.

Use this Microsoft OneNote tutorial as a tool for learning to use Microsoft software. Practice these skills and consider taking all your notes in OneNote.

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OneNote as a presentation tool

• May 31, 2016
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It may not be an obvious usage scenario, but I use OneNote as a presentation tool all the time. It simplifies explanation of complex ideas. Therefore, I thought of sharing the method on the blog. Those of you have attended my session will have noticed this already.

Benefits of using OneNote during a demo

Here are the reasons. Of course, I could have used a blank presentation as well. But you will soon realize why OneNote is a better option.

Freeform typing

OneNote gives a clean,  blank surface. Click anywhere and type. That is very easy. With PowerPoint, you need to keep adding textboxes and these don’t behave exactly the way you want. AutoFit setting is very irritating for ad-hoc typing.

Participant Introduction

I present to different customers every day. Often, I conduct 2 to 5 sessions per day for different customers. Usually, there is no time for preparation. Even if I know the target audience beforehand, the people who actually land in the room may be (and usually are) different from what was originally planned. If the audience is limited (less than, say, 15), I prefer to ask everyone to introduce themselves – Name, Role and Expectations from the sessions or topics they want me to cover.

This is best done by quickly typing two textboxes in OneNote – side-by-side.

As each participant enlists their wish-list – in no particular order – I can quickly reorder the list using Shift Alt Up or Down arrows and also use indentation to create a topic based hierarchy.

Once reordered, the list of topics can be quickly converted to a checklist. This is useful to ensure that I cover all the issues and topics during the session. Ctrl 1 is the default shortcut.

Creating awareness about OneNote

Most people are not even aware that OneNote as a product exists! At this stage, someone from the audience is bound to ask how did I create the checklist. That is the perfect time to tell the audience about OneNote – whether it is a part of the agenda or not does not matter.

Agenda or content list

Every meeting, demo, or training program has a list of topics to be covered or agenda. Use that agenda and convert it into a To Do list. This way you can keep track of what is covered.

Free-form explanation

While explaining concepts, I find OneNote more flexible and natural. For example, given below are the three most common ways in which formulas are copied. I want to prove that all these methods are wrong. Using simple annotation, the impact is much better than a pre-created slide.

OneNote as a whiteboard

Illustrating things by drawing is more natural and intuitive compared to sharp and professional looking graphics. I never use whiteboard. Why not? Because of many reasons: Firstly, I am usually sitting on a table, with collar microphone attached and both hands busy in delivering live demos. In this situation, getting up  and going to a whiteboard is impractical.

Second and more important reason is whiteboard is only useful for a compact audience. For large audiences, which is what I usually cover, whiteboard is absolutely useless.

OneNote, on the other hand, is extremely usable. Even without stylus it is quite easy to handle. With stylus, it is a pleasure to use OneNote. Changing colors and stroke width gives you lots of flexibility.

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How to create an educational presentation

Using presentations can be an effective way to teach lessons and ensure that your audience can retain new facts. With visual aids, video and animated clips, and even interactive quizzes, you can use presentation software like Microsoft PowerPoint to dazzle your students.

The advantages of PowerPoint presentations in education

Students have different learning styles : some are visual learners, who retain images and videos more effectively than speech. Some take to audio and sound more easily. Others prefer to interact with their lessons—which usually refers to holding physical objects but can also be directly related to guessing answers and responding to questions.

Fortunately, PowerPoint’s versatility means that it can appeal to all of these diverse learning styles. You can embed multimedia elements such as videos, audio clips, and interactive graphics, creating a multi-sensory experience. PowerPoint can also be helpful when considering any visual impairments that your audience members may have so that you can present with different forms of media to cater to all learning styles.

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Powerpoint empowers you to develop well-designed content across all your devices

Before diving into PowerPoint, consider the following factors to help your audience retain as much information as possible:

• Define lesson objectives: Set a goal for what kind of lesson you want to impart to your audience. What do you want students to learn? You can answer this question by outlining your lesson objectives and clearly defining your goals, which will also guide the structure and content of your presentation.
• Organize your content: Divide your lesson into key points and organize them into a logical sequence that builds in complexity. Start with basic points or even a review of previous concepts before diving into more intricate or complicated aspects of your lesson. Each point should be presented on a separate slide to maintain clarity and focus.
• Use visuals effectively: Enhance your presentation with relevant visuals such as images, videos, audio clips, or interactive simulations to cater to different learning preferences and keep the presentation engaging. These can convey complex information more efficiently than text alone. At the same time, it can be easy to be carried away by inundating your audience with too many visual elements, so ensuring smooth flow and transitions is key.
• Encourage interaction: Foster active participation by including interactive elements like quizzes, polls, or discussion prompts to prompt student engagement. After you introduce a new concept in your lesson, these interactive elements can reinforce them and make them stick.
• Practice delivery: Public speaking isn’t always easy. One of the most effective ways to sound confident is to practice delivering your presentation before the day of your lesson. Familiarize yourself with the content and also the way that it’s presented: pacing, transitions, and interactive elements. This preparation will boost your confidence, ensure a smooth flow, and help you address any potential challenges during the actual presentation.

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Copy and paste from OneNote to PowerPoint. OneNote not like OneNote2016

I draw some ink stuff in OneNote or OneNote2016 that I want to transfert to PowerPoint:

• If I copy from OneNote2016, it is pasted as an Ink item in PowerPoint and then have access to Format Ink menu. It is the same Ink feature as if it where created in PowerPoint.
• If I copy from OneNote, it is pasted as a dumb Image in PowerPoint and I loose the Ink menu and all transparencies related features. Really not funny to work with when you try to superpose many Ink features.

Both OneNote are taking the Ink from the same source in my OneDrive cloud.

I tried all the paste options without result.

I heard OneNote2016 will be phased out.

Seems like a glitch?

I am on Win10

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Thank you for sharing your observation regarding both OneNote platforms and PowerPoint application. I was able to reproduce the problem on my end. We confirmed that there's a limitation in PowerPoint to handle ink items from OneNote for Windows 10 app.

Hence, we value your feedback and experiences with our Office products. We would be more appreciative if you can post this concern through our  PowerPoint UserVoice  platform. That's the quickest route to our developers' ears. Also, by doing this, they will be made aware of the said limitation and make a necessary action to improve this program in the future update.

In line with your OneNote 2016 concern, this application is no longer included in Office 2019 suite. On your end, you can still be able to use this application and you may still even download it from the Microsoft Store.  

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Ok thanks I did as you suggested.

In fact PowerPoint handle well Ink item from OneNote2016 but cannot paste Ink item from OneNote.

Using OneNote2016 you loose the ability to group Items and all recent features.

Using OneNote you loose the ability to cut and paste Ink Item as Ink in PowerPoint.

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Create a presentation in powerpoint for the web.

With PowerPoint for the web running in your web browser, you can:

Create presentations that include images, videos, transitions, and animations.

Get to your presentations from your computer, tablet, or phone.

Share and work with others, wherever they are.

If you're using the desktop version of PowerPoint on a Windows PC, see the PowerPoint Quick Start .

If you're using the desktop version of PowerPoint on a Mac, see Office for Mac Quick Start Guides and PowerPoint for Mac Help .

Create, open, and name a presentation

Go to powerpoint.office.com .

Select New blank presentation , open a Recent file, select one of the themes , or start with a presentation template .

To name the presentation, select the title at the top and type a name.

If you need to rename the presentation, select the title and retype the name.

Add a slide

Select the slide you want your new slide to follow.

Select Home > New Slide .

Select Layout and the you type want from the drop-down.

When working in PowerPoint for the web, your work is saved every few seconds. You can select File > Save a Copy to create a duplicate copy in another location.

Or choose File > Download As to save a copy to your device.

When you're online, AutoSave is always on and saves your changes as you work. If at any time you lose your Internet connection or turn it off, any pending changes will sync as soon as you’re back online.

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