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Doug Thomas: So it's summer and hopefully, hopefully, that means very soon there's a
vacation in your near future. We're going to talk about traveling today and using a
program that can really help, because one of the things with technology, traveling's
great. There's all these websites, there's different coupon specials you can get. There's
multiple people you're traveling with you and the thing is, that's a lot of stuff. OneNote
can help corral all that and make it an area where you can build your vacation, keep track
of your important things, share that document and all that. And you can do it with OneNote,
or even if you don't have OneNote, you can use the free browser based version of the
Office web app, so there's a great amount to share. We also have a guest with us. Kristin
Luna is a travel blogger. Her site is Camels and Chocolate. Two things that go great together.
She's going to be online and answer your questions about travel and she has some tips for the
summer travel season that she'll share with us, some technology, some just regular travel
questions and we want to get to that. So I'm going to go quickly over the OneNote stuff,
just so I can get to our guest. Let me change the page here and click over to OneNote.
Doug Thomas: So OneNote is a program that many of you might have. It's been in all the
Office suites since Office 2010, and it's been around since 2002, I want to say. It's
a great program-- 2003. It's a great program for scrapbooking or keeping everything together.
A lot of people think of it as a school notebook. You can keep different topics. You can search
for everything. There's a ton of stuff you can do with OneNote and one of the things
is sharing that. So you can share it and you can build travel vacations and travel itineraries
together. Let me click over to a page we set up about a vacation. This is a page that we
have that I've put in some flight reservations, some of the information about what we want
to do. There's a checklist here. I've been able to share this. That's where you see the
little initials on the side there. Other folks have put their ideas of they want to go to
the United Nations. Mm, there's a spelling error. Whatever. But you can put in maps.
Also this syncs automatically with the web app or multiple devices. We'll talk about
this in a second. So here's a page for Central Park that we put in. You can link right to
the Central Park site if you wanted to. And let me look over here. We want to make sure
what the weather's like, so I'm going to click over here to Bing and look for the weather.
Let me click over to the Bing home page here, which is an octopus today. Let me change that.
Now if you've ever typed in a search here at Bing, it works great for big things like,
"What's the weather in New York?" Actually, you can see there that I can see what the
weather is without even clicking anything. It tells me automatically. But let me click
on that and I get this page here. I get there's thunder shows are in the area, but it's going
to be a little cooler on Friday. I want to keep that information, so what I'm going to
do is, there's a Send to OneNote tool. That's new for OneNote 2013. You can always send
or print pages to OneNote, if I want to keep this whole page. I just wanted to keep this
screen clipping, so I'm going to hit S. It's going to gray out the page, and then what
I'm going to do is grab what I want, which is this five days of weather here, and click
on that. I get this Select Location. Now I can copy this to my clipboard, like you usually
cut and paste but with OneNote, you can go a little further. You can send it to a selected
location. I'm going to select this Central Park Zoo page I was just on and send it there.
So let me click over back into OneNote. As you can see, that's now there. I didn't bake
that in advance, though I should have put it on the blank page. So I have that information
I just clipped there. As you notice at the bottom, not only do I have the information,
I have the URL I was on. So I could click on that URL anytime, and I also have a date
stamp of when I clicked on it, so I can use that as a reference. So again, if you've put
something in there three months before your vacation, you'd be able to get back to that
very easily. But again, OneNote's great. You can use Pen, if you use touch computers, for
that. If you have a touch monitor, you can add stuff. You can share it very easily, and
you can also go over and use the Office web app. Let me show you that. If you don't know
about the web apps, they are at SkyDrive.com. If you do nothing else with today's information,
go to SkyDrive.com and sign in. You get 7 gigabytes of free storage. I'm trying to click
on our vacation page and there's that same vacation page. Here's the Central Park Zoo
page. As you can see, I'm on a web browser now. Any updated browser will work, so it
doesn't matter what computer you're on, as long as you have an updated browser version,
Firefox, Chrome, IE, Safari, it doesn't matter. I get a little bit of the ribbon. It doesn't
have all the functionality of the full OneNote, but enough that I can get around stuff here.
Here's that New York weather I just put in. That's on the page. So I can share this page
with other folks and they can put in their information. This is how I set up a family
vacation. I set up a notebook. I send the links out to my family and they can add things
that they want to see in OneNote. OneNote can do a lot more. We'll talk about multiple
devices in a minute, but what I want to do is, I want to get to our guest right away
and get her website up here. This is me saying Kristin, time to meet your mic. So let's see
if Kristin Luna is there from Camels and Chocolate. Kristin?
Kristin Luna: Hello, Doug. I am here. Doug Thomas: Great, welcome. Welcome to the
Office 15 Minute Webinar. Kristin Luna: Thank you.
Doug Thomas: So you are Camels and Chocolate. When we were talking earlier and looking through
your blog, you started off as someone who traveled a lot for work and now you're kind
of working to travel basically, with this website and other things that you do.
Kristin Luna: Exactly, yes. I have worked in the magazine industry for the past decade,
so I was always traveling on assignment for one publication or the other. Eventually,
I decided to start my own side publication, which is how the blog was born. I still do
a lot of print writing, but I have a lot more fun on my blog than I do on any work assignment.
Doug Thomas: I know that, very much so. Working with OneNote, what do you like? What do you
use with OneNote? Kristin Luna: Well, I travel for anywhere
from six to nine months out of the year and I'd say probably only half the time, my husband
gets to come with me. So we do a lot of sharing of itineraries. He wants to know where I am
at any one moment, because he's a very protective husband. So he likes to be able to access
my itinerary, where I'm going, dinner plans I have with friends, any sort of flight information,
all that stuff. So when I'm traveling, I'm able to access all that on my iPhone while
he is using it from his home PC, which is kind of fun.
Doug Thomas: I'm going to click over to a page here. And we'll have all these links
for you in our web page. If you go to OneNote.com, you can find information here about how to
get it for all your devices. So you mentioned iPhone, PC. There's a Windows 8 app if you
have Windows 8. There is Android, iPad. It's really on all different types of computers
and you can get that, and you can find that information at OneNote.com and get the free
download for your device to use it. So again, you're typing somewhere and it just syncs
up there and so it comes in multiple devices. So you've done a blog post for us about travel
and tips. What's a tip that you think a lot of people need to think about, as they're
thinking about their vacation plans? Kristin Luna: I feel like if you're traveling
by plane, you should always go and check what's new with the TSA rule, because there were
some big developments this year in that children under 12 don't have to take off their shoes
when they go through security. And the same goes for senior adults. So if you're traveling
with really small children, that saves a whole lot of time when you're going through that
airport security line, and I'm sure the people behind you in line are grateful for that as
well. So always check and see what's new. They're changing the rules all the time, so
you should go to the TSA site and just double check and make sure you have all your ducks
in a row when it comes to your electronics. The other day, I was coming through security
at London Heathrow and I had a bag of sealed peanut butter in my bag. Apparently, sealed
peanut butter looks like a bomb, so now I know to never take peanut butter abroad as
gifts to people, because I might be detained at airport security.
Doug Thomas: See, there's the kind of tips you don't get anywhere else but the Office
15 Minute Webinar. Don't, sealed peanut butter. Unsealed maybe. Okay, now this is an interesting
webinar we're doing, because I didn't plan this, but I am literally on a plane in less
than 24 hours with four teenagers, so they have to take their shoes off. At home, the
suitcase is on the bed. I've got a few clothes here, a few things. What's a good last minute
thing for people, at the last minute packing, or what to pack?
Kristin Luna: I would say to pare down your packing and see what you don't need. I feel
like especially with teenagers, they probably have a whole bag dedicated to shoes and I
believe you have all girls, right? Doug Thomas: I'm traveling with one boyfriend.
Well, not my boyfriend, but one of theirs. But everything else, yes, my side's all girls.
Kristin Luna: Yeah, I think that packing is really tough when you're traveling with girls,
because we tend to want to over pack. So I would go through and pare down everything
they have and see if everything is necessary, because you really don't want to be lugging
around more weight than necessary when you're going through the airport, when you're going
through hotels, especially if you're changing locations. I always try to tell fellow female
travelers and even men, to pack in one color scheme, try to bring neutral tones for shoes
and for accessories and for bags. That way you only have to pack one of each. There's
no need to be packing with a lot of bright colors. You're going on vacation. You're not
going to a fashion show. I always say pack light, pack in one carry-on if you can, if
you're going just for a week or two, and it will make your life a whole lot easier, I
promise. Doug Thomas: How do you know I'm not going
to a fashion show? I may be, because I'm a fashionable guy.
Kristin Luna: Maybe. Doug Thomas: Yeah, okay. Neutral tones.
Kristin Luna: You're going to Maine, right? Doug Thomas: I am going to Maine. Maine and
DC. Yeah, we won't be doing the fashion thing, that's for sure. Okay, for the live call,
Kristin will hang around and answer questions about travel and we can talk a little more
about technology too. By the way, there's a picture here of you on the website. Are
you being chased by a wild yak here? Kristin Luna: Those are Highland Kuhs, if
you've ever been to Scotland. They're a particular breed called Highland cattle, or Highland
Kuh, if you're a local. I think I was doing the chasing actually.
Doug Thomas: Okay. So Camels and Chocolate is Kristin's website. There's some terrific
articles. She's been far more places than I think you and I probably combined have been.
It looks like she's just back from Germany and next up is Florida. There's also some
fun little articles about how she was an extra on "Nashville" and how you could be too, and
all of that. You can find that at Camels and Chocolate. We'll have her links for her summer
tips, also on the Office blog. One thing I did want to get to quick, before we go away,
is there is a special OneNote notebook that you can download for free and we have the
link for this. If you don't have OneNote, you can download it and use it on the Office
web app. We'll get it here in just a second. We made it in conjunction with the Travel
+ Leisure magazine. You see this notebook on the left hand side and then these tabs
on the top of the page. There's a tab for research. There's a tab for your schedule
and this is just a template. You can use this or not use this. You can delete things. But
what's really neat about these special things is, one, you'll find little OneNote tips.
So if you're new to OneNote, we'll give you some ideas of how to help and use OneNote,
those little purple, they're clipart. I was going to say they're paper. There's also tips
from Travel + Leisure magazine, so they have some tips and then those tips are linked.
Let me show you that they are linked, to some of their more popular areas for traveling
at Travel + Leisure magazine. So you get tips about OneNote, you get tips about travel and
leisure, and you can use this OneNote notebook. It's a free download. In fact, we have several
of these notebooks at our site. Let me click over and get you that information of how to
get to that. Doug Thomas: And wrap up today's webinar.
So the links for how to get OneNote on your multiple devices, how to get started with
OneNote, Kristin's site, Camels and Chocolate, her top ten tips for the summer travel and
this video in a couple of days. You can get all those links right now at aka.ms/camels.
That will link you to the Office OneNote blog. For more information about the Office 15 Minute
Webinar, aka.ms/offweb. You'll get our complete schedule. We've scheduled out to the middle
of August, and also the links to our previous webinars. Next week, we're actually not here.
We're going to take the holiday off, but we'll be back July 9th for talking about Microsoft
Project. So for today's Office 15 Minute Webinar team, thank you for joining this Office 15
Minute Webinar.