Just a few days in the past, we realized that Excel is getting a extremely requested PivotTable characteristic within the type of auto-refresh for this specific part. It looks like the corporate is seeking to grant much more needs because it has revealed {that a} couple extra extremely anticipated capabilities are coming to OneNote too.

The primary of those enhancements is the power to merge cells in a OneNote desk, identical to you are able to do in Excel. This grouping could be each horizontal and vertical, and the content material ought to align accordingly. There’s not a lot else to say about this, it does precisely what it says on the tin. That mentioned, you will need to be aware that Insiders have the power to show merged cells throughout all OneNote platforms, however the capability to really create merged cells is simply out there on Home windows, Mac, and iPad for now. iPhone, Android, and net help are deliberate for a later date.

Subsequent, we’ve got a quality-of-life (QoL) enchancment within the type of the paste textual content solely shortcut, also called Paste With out Formatting. On Home windows, this shortcut is Ctrl + Shift + V, whereas for Mac, it’s Cmd + Shift + V. That is just like different Microsoft 365 functions like Phrase and Groups, and the hope is that it’ll assist preserve content material constant and clear when it comes to fonts, colours, and styling. One other strategy to set off this conduct is the right-click context menu > Paste Textual content Solely, in addition to the House > Paste > Paste Choices > Maintain Textual content Solely toolbar.

It is very important be aware that the pasted textual content will undertake the formatting of your OneNote goal, not the unique supply. Additionally, this characteristic is at the moment out there for Insiders on Home windows, Mac, and the net solely. That mentioned, if both of the 2 capabilities shouldn’t be seen to you proper now regardless of assembly the minimal standards talked about right here, it is likely to be because of the staggered nature of the rollout.