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You can convert any existing Word document into Notebook Layout view when you open it, but you will lose formatting, including most text styles, paragraph indents, and bulleted lists.ĭespite its few quirks, the Notebook Layout view gives you a streamlined note-taking tool that’s perfect for students, businesspeople, and news reporters. The interface may be clean, but these omissions reduce this view’s usefulness, because you have to spend extra time switching into a different view to use familiar tools. Features such as Word Count and the ability to select heading styles aren’t available in this view, and Word Count even disappears from the pared-down Tools menu. Only two toolbars appear in Notebook Layout view: a standard Notebook Layout toolbar and an Audio Notes toolbar. Click on the speaker icon next to a note to play back the audio that supplements that note. (You need a microphone, but they’re not hard to find - and most Apple laptops have a built-in mike.) If you’re recording and taking minimal notes concurrently, Word will associate sections of the recording with each new bullet point. Using the Audio Notes feature in the Notebook Layout view, you just click on the Record button to start recording. There are even more ways to get notes into Word 2004.