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As mentioned earlier my name is Becky Wiegand and I'm the webinar program manager here at TechSoup and I'm really glad to be your host for today's event. Not only am I looking forward to this because I think it's an event that will be useful to a lot of our users but I'm actually really personally excited to learn more about OneNote 2 because I feel like this is a great tool that I haven't been able to make full access of yet either. So I'm really looking forward to hearing from our two experts on the line today. And the first is Rosette. She's our, actually this should say Strategic Communications Director. I apologize there's a typo on there. And she's our Strategic Communications Director here at TechSoup. She manages all things related to communications from messaging, branding, thought leadership, and much more. She's also managed large and complex projects for 18 years and is a big fan of products like OneNote to help organize her information. And she's actually taught on this topic in-house here at TechSoup to help us learn more about it. So I'm really glad to have her helping teach you this topic today. Our second presenter is Wes White. He's a program manager here at TechSoup who uses OneNote to manage meetings, share notes across teams, brainstorm, and more. So we're really happy to have him on board. Both of them will share their expertise and show us in real time how to use it and how they collaborate together on notes. You'll also see on the back end Susan Hope Bard, our Training and Education Manager she'll be on hand to help answer your questions and help you with any technical issues. She'll be flagging your questions for Q&A throughout the webinar. Looking at our objectives for today, we hope that you will gain some OneNote and note-taking best practices, learn a couple of do's and don'ts. And we want you to be able to walk away having created a OneNote notebook section and page from scratch. So if you have OneNote already installed on your computer, I would recommend pop that baby open. Let's do it together in real time when Wes starts taking us through the live demo portion because the best way to actually learn it is to do it. So we want you to take the opportunity today to do this with us and spend a little bit of time learning how this tool can be leveraged to help you stay more organized and lose the post-its and not go searching for random missing emails with notes. We hope that it will help you bring your notes more together and tighter and keep those brainstorming sessions and creative sessions more at your fingertips when you need them. We hope that this webinar will help expand your comfort with navigating the different parts and uses of OneNote so that you can come away knowing, okay, this can do this and maybe it can't do this thing that I thought it could. So you have a little bit of a better idea of how to navigate around and what it can do for you. Before we jump into that full topic in just a couple of minutes, just a little bit about TechSoup if you're not already familiar with us, we are everywhere on this map that's blue, which is pretty much all around the world. It's a few handful of exceptions, running events like this, running meetups in person where you can find us in cities around the world through our net-squared meetups and helping to be that bridge between civil society and social change agents with the corporate sector and technology. So we want to make sure that you have the technology that you need to really accomplish your mission and to help you learn how to use it. So while I am talking about TechSoup, I would love for you to show us in the chat window where you're joining us from today. So go ahead and chat in from where you're joining. Today's topic can help anybody I think using OneNote no matter where you're from, but some of the donation program information I'll talk about later may be most applicable to those of you joining from the United States. If you're joining us from outside the United States, I would recommend visiting TechSoup.Global and clicking on your country to find your local program where you may be able to access donated products and trainings and other resources to help your organization meet its mission. We've been doing this work since 1987 and have helped facilitate technology products and grants to the tune of $5.4 billion with a B. And before joining TechSoup, I used our programs at TechSoup at three small nonprofits. So I'm actually a beneficiary and recipient of many of our programs. So I really appreciate the value of the work we do here. And I hope you do too. So now let's dive into OneNote. How much do you currently use OneNote? And this is just to give us an idea of what level of expertise you come in to this program with. We have about 330 people on the line right now, and that number is sure to continue climbing over the course of the hour. Is this your first time looking at it today? Maybe you've never opened it up, seen it there lingering in your office suite on your desktop but you've never tried it. Maybe you've opened it up and saw that big blank white screen and then closed it right back up feeling not knowing what it does, not wanting to actually dive in. I understand that fear. Maybe you've used it a handful of times but want to use it better. For those of you who use it daily, feel free to chat in to let us know what you find it really works well for because we can share those tips of yours back out with our audience as well and share some of your expertise. So I'm going to give just a couple more seconds so everyone can participate in this poll and then I'll go ahead and share the results. It looks like the great majority of our audience is brand new, so you're in the right place since this is OneNote for Beginners. Those of you who use it daily, we are happy to have you on and would invite you to share your expertise. We probably won't be covering many advanced topics today as this is really geared toward beginners. But as always, you're welcome to join us and stay with us for the full webinar. With that, I'd like to go ahead and bring on our first presenter, our Senior Communications Director, Rosette. She's going to talk to us a bit before we share the live demo. Wes is going to take us through the live demo but she's going to talk to us a bit about what it's for, like let's clear up what we use this for, what we maybe don't want to use it for, and give some comparisons between a couple of popular products out there so you have an idea of how it might compare with something else you may already be using. It's certainly going to be a step up from a post-it. It's certainly going to be a step up from jotting notes on paper that never get translated into anything digital and shareable. But what else is it good for? So Rosette, thanks for joining us on the program. We're really glad to have you. Thanks Becky.  So you'll hear some repeated information which we always welcome because in training it's always good to repeat, to reinforce the information. So at the very, very basic level who should use one note? If you pick a lot of notes that really helps whether it's for personal use or for professional use. And I saw in the chat that some folks use it for personal but yet to use it for their professional use. So this is good to see that you can toggle and you'll learn more about toggling between the two and how easy that is. If you want to write, store, and search notes easily it is very good for that. If you are ready on a Microsoft platform with Windows and Office it's going to be beautiful integration for you. And if you want to share with notes with others whether they are within your organization, with a peer organization, or even personally with your family members. And if you want to take notes on multiple devices it's also very helpful. I find that through my many years of crazy email volume and managing meetings, if I mean like six back-to-back meetings daily or if I have a lot of documents I find OneNote really a blessing because it helps streamline my life all throughout my life and all the meetings throughout the day. So I personally think OneNote can be used for many, many different things. So one question we have received in the past on OneNote webinars is what is the difference between OneNote and Evernote? Now I know that there are a lot of other note-taking applications out there that these are the two main largest competitors. Because I want to spend a lot more time on the demo with Wes. I created this slide. There are a lot of bullets. This is for you to use as a reference. I'm just going to give you a concluding message to you which is it's not really an either or situation here. Evernote, its strength is really managing web clips. OneNote has the same feature. Wes is going to demo it but Evernote does that really well. And it's more of a digital file cabinet. OneNote is more for – the user interface makes it look very much like a digital notebook. Basically a notebook that you use in junior high school with tabs and color coding. It's very easy to use. And if you have to use only one and you already are using Microsoft in the office then I do recommend OneNote. Once again, I'm not going to go through the detailed bullets here and I will let you look at it as reference after this presentation. Okay, so let's see here. The next slide here we have basic structure. So at a very high level looking at this there are three hierarchical levels here. We've got the notebook at the very left-hand side. We've got the section which is the next level down in terms of organization. And then the final level here is what's called page. These are where the notes are taken on. And so there are pages within a section and sections within a notebook. And what you're looking at here is the client version. And what that means is that it's the software that you download on your device. And I'm going to show you the web app version in a bit. And if I failed to mention earlier OneNote is available for downloading and for use on all devices for free. And Wes is going to talk about this a little bit more in detail. But you can also use it in conjunction with OneDrive. OneDrive is a cloud storage offering of Microsoft. And it is free as well. And they give you 15 gigabytes for free. So if you're just taking notes, like mainly typing up regular notes, 15 gigabytes is going to be a lot. You'll have plenty of space. It only gets a little bit more credit if you're using a lot of images and high resolution files. But back to the slide here. Like I said, I'm going to show you the client version and the web app version. So this is the client version. This is my actual view here. On the left-hand side has my notebooks. These are real notebooks that I use. My notebook that says my notebook at the very top left, that one I use for things that I'm not going to share. So whether it's HR work-related stuff that's sensitive to just me, or whether it's some personal things I want to put down and jot down before I forget. And I have a lot more notebooks than what's shown here. So it can really handle a lot of volume here with one note. This next slide that you see here is more or less the same thing that I just mentioned. But I had put it in here. It is a Microsoft diagram, Microsoft created diagram. And I put it in here once again for your reference if you look back at this deck after the webinar. I'm not going to go into much detail here, but it does talk a little bit about everything I just said in more detail. We looked at the client version. This here in front of you is the web app version. So some folks like to work on the web app version, and some folks like to work on their own software on their own desktop. But this does give you a view of what it looks like. Once again, I show you the three parts of the hierarchy. The notebook at the very top, umbrella organization. Next level down is the section. And next level down is page. When we get to West's part, he will talk about what is a sub-page, which is one level down from the page. But more or less, it's very similar. And has the same idea. But you can indent a sub-page to help organize all the notes. So these next two slides are on first getting started. So we are going to show you how to open up one note to create a notebook, a section, and page to write notes in the page to be able to move the notes around. The benefit of having one note within a page, West will also show you how to share a notebook, a section, and a page with your colleagues. And then also how to sync your notebook with other colleagues or even your family members. Also on OneDrive too. We talked about OneDrive offering free 16GB cloud storage. And then on other devices, they are like smartphones. And we have a little poll on that. Going in and looking at the more advanced tips, because I do see that some of you are daily users already. You might not know some of these advanced tips. West is going to show you how to send to OneNote emails, attachments, from Outlook. We are going to show you how you can add meeting detail from the Outlook invites. And that way it tracks down and gives you all the details of who has invited the meeting, who is attending the meeting, when it was. That is very helpful when you are going back and searching. And by the way, the search feature is absolutely robust with OneNote. You can embed Office files, Microsoft Office files within OneNote. And it's very easy to open back up again. You can start a new text box anywhere. Once again, West is going to show you that. You can tag items within the page. And what that means is that basically you can put down, okay, is it an action item? Is it an idea? Is it a question? And it's very, very helpful for just organizing all the clutter that's on your notes. You can also insert voice recording, recording meeting, a video recording, photos, spreadsheets, other images. You can create view and hide set pages. Once again to help you organize all the clutter on the notes. And then adding a time dimension, I find super valuable. One of the critiques of OneNote is that, oh, well it doesn't have a time dimension is what people say, even if there is a date and time stamp. Because what we do at home in TechSoup is we have a certain dating convention where the year and the month and the day is displayed. And that really helps me find notes if I know when the meeting was. But I will remember actually what the meeting was about or detailed about, so I can search on that. You can also see different page versions. And West is going to show you how to password protect a section or notebook. So with that we're going to go to a really quick poll. We'd love to see which device or devices do you or would you mainly use to access OneNote? So go ahead and put your responses in. Great. And while people are responding, we do have some folks talking in the back end asking what version we're using to show OneNote. And we have Office 2013 installed on our computers that we're using here at TechSoup. And we're also using the OneNote app which is the web app version that we're using. And so some of the screenshots are reflective of that. A lot of what's going to be covered today though will be generically applicable depending on where you're accessing it. It may look a little bit different or something on the header may be in a different location. But a lot of this is going to be applicable whether you're accessing it from Office 365 or the web app or installed. But there are some differences. And also depending on the year you're accessing it or whether you're accessing it on a Mac. We have people in the chat commenting that 2016 is very similar to 2013. But it will look a little bit different if you're viewing it on an iPhone versus a desktop computer with it installed or the app. So just keep that in mind when you're going through, when you're looking at these that you may need to search a little bit depending on the version you're using it in since it may not be the same as what we're using. So with that why don't we go ahead and close this poll and show the results. It looks like most people have participated. And it looks like the great majority are planning to use it on their PC or laptop computer. And we've got a handful of Mac users which I will chat out a couple of links for those of you on Macs. Somebody said they couldn't find it on their Mac. So you may need to actually install it separately. It is free so you can do that. And a sizable chunk on tablets and Android phones in particular. So that's great to know. So Rosette take us through kind of what it means from these different devices. Sure. So here I have very high level features that differentiate among the devices that we talked about. So it looks like a really large majority use the PC. And it does work beautifully with Windows on the PC. If you have touchscreen devices you can write notes with your stylus or your finger on the Macs. And Chromebooks it's definitely going to have fewer tabs, fewer features. But at least you do have one note on the Mac. It wasn't available on the past. It's now available and it's getting more and more robust. But I do feel for those 30 Mac users on our call today because it is not as robust for the Apple products. And we have quite a few Mac users within TechSoup and they admittedly have issues here and there. I'm on a PC myself. I have no issues and I love it. And for tablets if you do have a Microsoft Surface Pro 3 once again it integrates super well with Microsoft products. You can write notes with your stylus or finger and you can hand write an equation and they have really cool things like this ink to math tool which converts that to text and then you can get the solution much quicker. For ILS phones and Android phones they are both allowing for easily scribbling on the go. You can toggle between personal and enterprise accounts which I love because I can still use the same application and I know exactly which one is my personal staff and which one is my TechSoup Enterprise account. With Android there are more and more super awesome widgets that allow for really cool things that you can do with a screen, a touchscreen device like an Android phone. Windows phone, obviously once again it's a Windows product, works really well. What's not mentioned here as much is they do have one note on Apple Watches and Android Smartware. So I have not used it myself. It's a little bit clunky from what I've understood with my research but I imagine that will be getting better and better with time. So with that I am going to pass it on to Wes who will be doing the demo for you guys. The deck that you see here slides 21 and beyond are screenshots for you for reference for later on but it's going to be so great to actually hear Wes do the live demo. So with that Wes you are on. Thanks for that Rosette. I'm actually interrupting before Wes joins just to reiterate that we will not be showing the slides that we have in the slide deck right now but those are for reference and we are going to go ahead and have Wes share his desktop directly. And Wes what version are you going to be sharing in it? Is it going to be one note web app? Is that the correct version or are you using one note 2013 installed? No, I'll be on the one note 2013 installed version. Cool, thanks Becky. So I hope everybody can see my desktop now. So thanks everybody for coming today. Again my name is Wes White. I'm a program manager here at TechSoup. I'm really excited to show you guys this tool because it's something that I use every day and it's one of my favorite things to use. It really helps keep you organized. It obviously saves paper and things like that as well. But I've tried a bunch of other note-taking apps and this one is really my favorite because of the layout and the design and because of the really cool thing that you can do with it. So I'm really excited to show you. The first step really here would be for all of you to download one note if you haven't already. The best way to do that is just to go to www.onenote.com and here you'll see this free download button on the left-hand side of the screen. You'll click that and it'll download automatically to your desktop. There is a web app version which is pretty robust and works really well. Like Wes said, it's laid out a little bit differently but still very easy to use. And for the desktop version though it can download onto pretty much any device. So I am using a PC right now but I have a Mac at home and I use it on that as well. And it syncs up perfectly between the devices. I also have it on my phone. I have an Apple iPhone and I use it to take notes on the go since I use OneNote for both personal use and taking notes at TechSoup as well. It's really helpful to have it on all of my devices at the same time because then I can sync it up and be up to date no matter where I go. So I really like that feature of it. So once you have OneNote downloaded I will show you a little bit of what OneNote looks like. So you've seen, Wes showed you around a little bit before but on the left-hand side just to get everybody on the same page there are notebooks. And then on the top of the screen you'll see sections or tabs. You may hear me referring to them as either or because they look a lot like tabs and sometimes I just call them that. On the right-hand side you will see pages and really easy way to add a page or to add a section, I'm sorry, is to go up here and just click Create New Section on that little plus symbol at the very top. To add a new page you go over to the right-hand side and hit that plus symbol and it just creates a new page. So very simple, easy to understand. And what I love about this format is that OneNote is laid out exactly like kind of one of those old school binders. So you would open it up, have your notebook, and then you would flip to this specific tab for whatever note you're trying to take and then add in pages. So for those of you who are really used to taking notes on pen and pad like I used to be as well, this is a really easy transition and it's really easy to understand. So I really like that about OneNote's layout specifically. Also if you're on a tablet there actually is a really cool tool where you can actually take notes directly on the screen writing with your pen or stylus and it'll actually convert into text as well. So that's a really cool feature that makes it even more like writing with a pen and pad. So to begin let's create a new notebook since that's where we're going to be taking the first of our notes. Right now I'm in a notebook that I created using my personal OneDrive account. If you look over here on the left hand side of the screen there are all these other notebooks here that I could access as well. Now this one says cross-team projects. If you can't read it, weekly meetings, events, other research that I'm doing. Each of these are shared notebooks that we use here at TechSoup to collaborate on work or research that we're doing or take meeting notes together, that type of thing. I'll get into that soon. But for right now I'm using my personal account and I'll show you kind of what that looks like. So when you go over here to create a new notebook you'll go to File on the left hand side again. You'll see this screen right here. Go down to New, right under Info, and this screen will pop up. So as you see here like I mentioned before it's my OneDrive personal account. If this pops up on your screen you can see it's my Gmail address. So you can see that you can create these kinds of notebooks and use OneNote on any device even if you're not using an Outlook as your email provider. So that's really handy. And again it allows me to sync across all of my devices even if I'm not using Windows products in other cases which I really enjoy. So you can just create your notebook name. This will pop up and say Create Notebook. I'm not going to do that right now because we already have one to work with. So going back to the tab that we're on right now I have a few sections laid out, webinar agenda, meeting notes, fundraising, budgeting, event planning, etc. I thought about a few situations or scenarios that you might see in day-to-day work in a nonprofit. We have certainly used a few of these ourselves here at TechSoup. And they're pretty basic functions that OneNote is really, really good for. So to begin meeting notes is definitely one of the best things to use OneNote for. What I did here is I typed the name of the meeting notes at the very top. So whatever you type at the very top of your note is going to come up as a title that you see over here on the right-hand side on your page. So here you can see the title of TechSoup team notes is the title of this page. But I don't have any notes in the actual body of the note. I did that for a specific reason. The reason being that OneNote allows this really cool capability of creating sub-dages which not all note-taking devices allow. So over here I have this specific dating convention which Rosette mentioned before. We use here at TechSoup. It helps keep everything super organized, especially when you have meetings day in and day out. You really need to keep those organized in a good way. So what we do here is we use the year first, the full year, and then the month and then the day specifically. And that allows you to keep everything under a certain topic. So for example, I have TechSoup team notes here but I could create a new page and say I want to take a webinar notes. Now you'll see that this has become a new topic on my pages and that's because these pages right here are just sub-pages that I have specific notes on. So here you can see that I have a few example notes laid out for each of these days. But we're going to take some notes under meeting notes. So here I've created this note and I don't really want to put anything down here because I'm going to add something in for this specific day. So I'm going to go to add page again. And you'll see that it automatically brings it up in the same line as the title pages that we have. So these webinar notes, the TechSoup team notes. In order to make this a sub-page, we're going to go over here to the right-hand side, put your cursor over the untitled page, right-click, and you'll bring up this menu of options. Now you can do all kinds of things here, right? You can rename, delete, cut copy, paste, etc., etc. But what we want to do is go down to make sub-page. So that'll just push that over a little bit and keep it in line under this topic. So now we know that these notes are related to the webinar notes. So then we're going to go up here and use our dating convention which I just mentioned before. It is the 9th. And I'm going to write down a topic as well, notes for an example. Okay, now what I really like about OneNote is that it integrates with all of the other Office products. So if you haven't used OneNote before, this can be a really handy feature especially if you're using, say, Outlook for example. So we are in a meeting right now on my Outlook calendar. So I'm going to add in some meeting details for this so that I can take notes specific to that meeting. This is a really good way to look very professional and efficient with your other colleagues in your office since it'll put in all of the meeting notes in a very official-looking way. So I'll go up here to the ribbon. And this ribbon can be very important to us because it has a lot of cool features that I'll go over throughout the webinar.  On the left-hand side you can see that there are all of the features that you know and love if you use, say, Microsoft Word. So bold, italic, cross-through, bullets, etc. But what I'm looking for is going to be over here to the right. So on the far right-hand side of that ribbon you'll see meeting details. And when you put your cursor over it, it says Insert Meeting Details. Now, if you're integrated with Outlook and using Outlook for your organization then this is a really cool tool you can use. If you click on it, you'll see it's loading for just a second. But when it's done with that it will create a drop-down menu of all of the meetings that I have on my Outlook calendar today. So here you can see that I have the webinar right here. Microsoft OneNote for Beginners. I'm going to select that webinar meeting and voila, it pulls down into the page that I just made. So here you can see, and I'll just drag that up, what's really nice about OneNote is that whatever note that you create on the page comes up in a little text box like this that you can adjust however you want. So I can pull this out like that. I can move it around. It makes it a really flexible tool, especially if you have a lot of notes. It can be really nice to pull out pieces of those notes and say put a box over here. You can put the cursor anywhere on the screen which is kind of cool. And say I want to put the cursor over here and create a little box. I like to do this for all of my notes for action items. So if I do that and then I go home, create bullets, then I can actually say in a West to give webinar. Is that to help on the first part? And as you can see, this kind of moves down the other notes and that's because those slightly overlap. So if you just move that to the side you won't have that issue. I'm just going to pull this back up here where it belongs. Cool. So when you include the meeting details, a really nice thing about that is that you see all the participants that have signed up for that meeting or have accepted the meeting. And you can go down here looking at whoever is in the room with you. You can say I'm in attendance and so is Becky. And so that puts two checks beside and it really allows you to easily show who actually attended the meeting and who may not have. It also gives you a little section down here for notes. So we're just going to put some notes down here. And that brought the notes into the same format as that note section right there. But you can put notes like I said anywhere on the screen and they won't come up in that same format. Now the really nice thing about OneNote is that for each of these notebooks you can make them collaborative. So here at TechSoup and I'm sure at a lot of your organizations as well, we work on a lot of cross-team projects, a lot of projects that involve people from all over the organization. So if you're working on a project like that, you may want to collaborate on notes with people from other teams or people that are in the meeting but may be working remotely or something like that. So in that case OneNote offers a really robust collaboration tool. So what you'll need to do to make your notebook shareable, the notebook doesn't automatically become collaborative until you invite other people to work on it with you. So I'm going to go over here to the left-hand side. This is my OneNote webinar notebook. I'm going to right-click on that and it will bring up this menu of options again. So as you can see you can move it around. It's not stuck in place. You can put it in any kind of order that you want. But you can also go down here and share this notebook. I'm going to click on that to show you an example. And that brings up this window right here. Now you can invite people to collaborate with you on this notebook either via email, which would mean that you would type their email address in here and you can include a personal message if you want. Or you can get a sharing link and actually take this link and just send it to somebody or place it on say like a Wiki page or something like that where people can go in and just edit it no matter what team they're on. For our intents and purposes I invited Rosette as you can see down here. This is her other email to collaborate on this notebook with me. And you can set privacy settings on the right-hand side on this little drop-down window right here where it says Can Edit or Can View. If you want to keep it just private and keep somebody from actually writing things in the notes or changing them anyway you can select the View option. For this I did Edit because I want Rosette to show us some really cool ways that OneNote can be used. So Rosette if you can please type some notes on my OneNote page. I hope everybody can see this. What's really cool about this is that Rosette is not in TechSoup right now. She's miles and miles away and working remotely. And as you can see right here her notes come up in highlighted blue section. It's nice because here you can see in a lengthy meeting with lots of notes or when you're collaborating on a project and you need to be brainstorming ideas and things like that you can see exactly who has been adding notes to the document and who hasn't been contributing. And that's really helpful because then you can identify the person that you might need to reach out to for a specific item or ask a question to for help or clarification on a certain thing. And over here you can see exactly who it is not just because Rosette named herself directly in the notes but if you hover your mouse over the little icon that comes up beside it, this says Microsoft Account. That's because Rosette is actually not signed into her account as her but if you have an enterprise level account or if I were to take notes on Rosette's screen then you would be able to see my full name come up. Which is really handy and again allows you to kind of identify who's been contributing and in what way and that helps a lot especially when you have a big project to collaborate on. So that's available on any notebook that you share and any page that you share as well. So then another good feature of OneNote on the actual page it's really helpful for when notes get really, really long and so you have a big project that you're working on and you're using the same page for all of your notes. Well something that you might want to flag within those notes are key items or ideas or questions or things like that. What's great about that is that OneNote offers a really robust tagging tool. So you may have seen this in other note-taking apps that you've used and if not it's a little bit more robust than others that I've seen. You go up to the home on the ribbon, you can go over to the middle part and click this bottom arrow to bring up more and it shows you all the different options that you can use. So you can label things as to do. You can label them as important or highlight them as to remember. If you're doing work for something else or you just see something on the go sometimes I have it on my phone and I have an idea. Somebody mentioned the movie that I should watch or something like that. You can write that down and again it's synced so you'll have that whenever you need it. You can tag that in the movie to see or book to read that kind of thing and that syncs up with OneNote's searching capabilities. So you can actually search for these tags when you go back through your notes later on. For right now I'm going to tag these action items. So I'm going to go back into this little text box here. I'm just going to highlight those. And then you see it gives me some options right here, right? And I'm actually going to go up to the home tab where it's more robust and go over to the to-do tag which is obviously one of the more used tags. So I'm just going to click on that, it gives you these little boxes and I click gun. I'm working on that right now. So a really cool way to make your notes a little bit more organized. The next thing that you can do once you're done with all of your meeting notes you want to share them out to the rest of your team so that you can make sure that everybody has access to them. So I'm going to go up here to the home tab and you can go over here right next to the meeting details section. You have a little button for email page.  But again, if you are synced up with Outlook you can email all of those notes out to whoever you want and it'll start off just creating an email with all of the attendees already populated in the email field. So I like to do that before like right when I am leaving a meeting and so people have access to the notes as soon as the meeting is over. You can also share notes by going over here to the page that you want to share. Right clicking on it and coming down here and saying copy link to page. If I copy that link I can come over and I'm just going to paste and you'll see that the link to the meeting notes, that exact page came up right there. So another really easy way to do that. Before we move on from the meeting notes section I'm just going to go over a few other cool things you can do within meeting notes specifically. So come up to the ribbon again and this time we're going to go over to insert. On the insert tab you can see that there's all kinds of things that you can put into these notes to help people out. So you can insert a file attachment which is really helpful if you have some kind of document that people were supposed to read before a meeting. You can just pop that right down into the notes so that people can have access to them while they're in the meeting. You can insert Excel spreadsheets or Vizio diagrams and I'll go over that later if we have time. You can insert pictures on the iPhone app or Android app. You can actually take a picture with your phone and insert it directly into the notes from there. Really helpful if you're on the go and see something cool that you want to put down. You can also record audio and record videos. So really helpful if you are at an event or at a lecture or something like that. You can actually set up an audio recording within the notes so that you have access to the exact words that somebody said later on. So all these tools really helpful for meeting notes specifically but also any other kind of notes that you might need to take. Now the second scenario that I'm going to go over is fundraising, something that we all have to do at one time or another. Fundraising often requires a little bit of online research. For this scenario I'm just going to pretend that I know nothing about fundraising and then I'm really wondering where do I even get started? So before we go into the research capabilities that OneNote has, I want to tell you about a really interesting add-on that OneNote has. So if you go back to your browser, I'm going to go over to OneNote.com slash apps. You can see that up here in this field. Now when you go to this section there are all kinds of really cool apps to integrate with OneNote that can be really helpful. I've used a few of them myself. A few that I want to point out specifically is one is this one, email to OneNote. This allows you to actually send an email directly to OneNote and it will file it away for your use later on. Evernote to OneNote importer, very useful if that's the tool you've been using up until this point. And then down here at the very bottom there's the OneNote web clipper. So you'll see it's about midway through the page towards the very bottom. OneNote web clipper is a really helpful app that you can download. It plugs into your browser. I'm actually using Chrome right now. And on the top right hand side of my screen you can see this little icon. That's what it looks like. And it says clip to OneNote. So once you install that you'll be able to do some really interesting things especially if you're working on something that involves online research. So for that purpose right now I'm going to show you a little bit about how to use that tool. So I need to do some fundraising. I haven't fundraised a lot in the past. I don't really know where to start. I think I'm just going to go to TechSoup and see if they have any cool resources for me. So let me just go over to the TechSoup site and then, oh, look at this. Really cool article on how to use A-B testing for fundraising. I don't know much about A-B testing. I don't really have time to read this whole article right now but it looks really interesting. So I'll probably need to just save that for later.  So I'll go over here to that web clipper that I showed you before. I'm just going to click on that and give it a few seconds to load. It'll bring up a window that looks like this. Now you have a few options here. You can take a full page screenshot which will just kind of save that article as an image in your OneNote page. You can take a region screenshot. So I can take just a picture of say anything on the page right here. Maybe I just want this section or just that picture. It'll clip that out for you. If you don't want to do that, you can also click article. I really like this function because it actually will take that entire article, that entire web page, and just pop it right down into OneNote in an editable way. So here you can check your location. OneNote webinar, fundraising, okay, yeah, that's the right section. But you can open that up and select anyone that you want. So say I want it in my event planning section. I could do that too. And if there were, yeah, and so that's how you would do that. So with the article pulled up, I'm going to clip it. See here that it's clipping page and clip was successful. So if you click on view in OneNote, it'll actually bring up the web app. I'm not going to do that right now. I'm just going to go back to the desktop client. And you'll see here under fundraising section in my OneNote webinar notebook, I have the online research topic. And then right under that in a new page, I have introductions using A-B testing for fundraising. That whole article has just popped right down into my OneNote to save for Rosette or anybody else who's sharing this notebook with me to look at whenever they need to. And what's nice about the article function is that now I can actually do other things with this text in OneNote so I can add my name. I can come down here and just take out this whole section. I'm just going to delete that part. Or I can highlight things as well. So I'm going to start with this place down here. And what's nice about OneNote is that it also has this draw function which I was mentioning earlier. So for that I'm just going to click on that. It'll drop down a few things. And you have a highlighter up here. You can also draw on the text. You can circle things like this. Or you can go back up to the draw tab and click the highlighting section. And highlight parts of the document. So not the prettiest highlighter I've ever done but I'm sure you understand.  And that will get your cursor back so you can do what you were planning to do before. I'm going to make this a sub-page. And voila! Now we have some online research saved for later. Real quick there are a few other things that are really helpful with OneNote to just go over. If you're, say, doing budgeting and you need to insert an Excel spreadsheet you can go up here to the insert tab on the ribbon. And go to spreadsheet. You can click an existing Excel spreadsheet that may be available on your desktop or create a new Excel spreadsheet. And right here again all of these are collaborative. If you've shared this document out I'm just going to hit edit. And as you can see on my screen it brings up a full Excel spreadsheet that you can work through collaboratively with other people and save into this OneNote for later. Let me get out of that right now. Say I'm doing some event planning. And I'm not exactly sure where I want my venue to be or what I want the whole process for the event to be. I can go up here to this event process page that I've already created. And I want to really map out that process for everybody. So I'm going to hit click insert again.  So make that process really visual for everybody so that everybody understands exactly what you need to do. Like new video drawing pops that down in there in the same way. So that's just a small slice of the capabilities that OneNote has. It can do a lot of other things. It's a robust tool. And again, it's one of my favorite note-taking apps. I use it every day across all of my devices. I find it very, very helpful. And I hope you guys do too. I'm going to hand it over to Becky now for Q&A. Hope you guys had a good time. Thanks. Great. Thank you so much for that West. That was a lot of really good information about the functionality to cover in a pretty short amount of time. So I know we rushed through some of that, but don't worry you're getting the recording later. And the slides that have a lot of these things circled, or for example, we have slides in here that show you which thing to click on under which tab circled throughout. So before I get into Q&A to answer some more of the questions, we are answering questions on the back end. And we'll continue to do that while I do this. But for those of you who are looking for OneNote and you are looking to upgrade potentially your latest version of Office Suite, and maybe you have the installed version on your desktop and you're using 2007 or something like that, and you'd like to upgrade to 2013 or 2016, these are the options available to you through the TechSoup donation program. Now as Wes mentioned, you can go directly to the OneNote site and download it yourself as well. So they do offer it completely free. But if you want to have your full Office Suite updated so that you get those latest features, some of what Wes was showing, and you have the integration with your Outlook and your OneNote and your Word and Excel all together with the latest features, this is where you would do that. You can get Office Professional Plus which includes OneNote along with eight other Office products, Office Standard which is the suite of six. So it's OneNote plus your Word, PowerPoint, Excel, a couple of others, and then Office for Mac also includes OneNote. So if you have an earlier version of Office for Mac that doesn't include OneNote, this version does. So it was kind of a later add-on that Microsoft offered. And you can find all of these through TechSoup.org slash Microsoft, or you can go to this dedicated page, Microsoft-software-non-profits for a little bit more detail about the program. Additionally, if you are looking to learn more about this and other Office Suite programs, we have a program with our partner Skillsoft where they have a whole package of Office 2013 or Office 2010 fundamentals with self-paced online learning courses where you can go in and watch videos and take courses on how to learn more about OneNote, Excel, Office, Word, PowerPoint. All of the programs are in here. $20 admin fee gets you six months of unlimited access to these different videos and trainings. So check those out if you're really looking to increase your skill area. And one last thing I'll mention is Microsoft Philanthropies overall, they are our biggest donor partner, but they have a whole suite of products to help the modern nonprofit get more modern with their technology. And you can learn more about their donation programs through Microsoft.com at their Philanthropies product donations page. Everything from Free Office 365, Dynamics PRM Online, Azure, and more. With that, I'm going to go ahead and get into the questions of which there are many. So we have a couple of questions, and I'm not sure Wes or Rosette, which of you could respond about email. So there are a lot of people asking about the integration that you mentioned with Outlook. You had your Outlook closed, so we didn't see it, but people are asking, can you use a different email tool other than Outlook to have your integration, or does it really only work with Outlook? Anybody know that one? Yeah, I can answer this. So I have my headset on. Let me take it off so you can hear me more easily. I'm going to answer background questions the last 15 minutes while Wes has been talking. So we've gotten a lot of questions about email addresses, and if you can share your notes with someone who does not have one note, so you can use any email address you want to to share your notes with somebody outside. You don't need Outlook. Wes, for example, shared it with me through the Gmail account. I can have him share it with me to my Yahoo account. That's not a problem at all. You do not have to have one note installed to be able to use one note web app. So when Wes first shared with me this webinar one note notebook, he shared it with me. I opened up that I was able to do all that on the web app. So those are two questions I answered. I hope that was very clear. Great. But do you know if people can use other email hosts like if they can use their Gmail to have that email integration or their Yahoo, is that clear? Or maybe Wes is going to chime in here. Hey Becky. So the thing that I showed with send notes to email or get the meeting details into your notes, that is specific, I believe, only to Outlook. I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure that that is a specific feature that is on one note because of its integration with Outlook. So if you're using Google Calendar or something like that, it may not be available to you. Okay, that's helpful to know. We have some folks asking questions about password protection and sort of how that can be applied. So is that something that you feel comfortable responding to around what parts, can you lock a whole notebook to password protected? Can you lock a section? Can you lock just one page of a notebook so people can't view it? Not only not edit it but not view it. Do you know that answer? Wes is looking like he might be able to chime in here. So yeah, you can password protect an entire notebook and you can also password protect a section. If you go to either one of those and put your cursor over them and then right click, you'll see that menu of options that I was going over before. One of those options is password protect this section. So that you can do for individual sections and I believe for notebooks as well but Rose can correct me if I'm wrong on that one. Okay, so we have a question about documents when you share them. Do they have to be hosted on OneDrive or SharePoint to be edited by others? Or is there, if somebody just installs the OneDrive app version, can you share and they can edit it from that without having it go into a OneDrive file sharing database online? I'm not sure how I'm phrasing that well but is that something that they can just share and use the OneDrive app without having to upload that document someplace first? We have some thoughtful looks here in the room, unsure of the answer on that. Rose, that do you happen to know? So these questions are stumpers today. Sure, so go ahead and repeat that question. Sorry, I was answering some questions. So just a question asking whether you need to upload a document to OneDrive or SharePoint in order for it to be shared and edited. Or can somebody share and edit it if they're only using the OneDrive, I'm sorry, the OneNote app. So if they have the web app, can you share it with somebody else and they can open it and edit it just in the app without uploading it someplace first? Yes, I believe so. This is going to document attachments on a note page on the OneNote web app, correct? Yeah, I believe so. Yes, I did it earlier with Wes when we were preparing for this. So I was going to open up a PowerPoint presentation. Okay, well that's helpful. So I know we've got more questions in the queue. We don't have more time though unfortunately in our hour. We did answer a lot of them on the back end and we'll keep doing that while I wrap up this webinar today. But I'd like to thank you all for joining us and point you to some additional resources. Like I mentioned, the training through Skillsoft, that can get you more in depth on how to use these. There's a 2013 and a 2010 version. We also have run a couple of other events on this in the past. So we have a webinar here, Microsoft OneNote for Nonprofits and Libraries. I pointed to this article, What's New in PowerPoint and OneNote 2013. This highlights some of the features that were launched in 2013, especially if you're on 2007 or 2010, this might be something to look at because they've only expanded and gotten deeper since then in the 2016 version as well. 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afternoon everyone. its our first item of business. this afternoon is portfolio questions and in order to get as many people in as possible. and be grateful for for short answer saint questions and answers. I thank the member for explaining question, as the Scottish Government believes wholeheartedly that the EU membership is in the best interests of Scotland a'r rhaglen nhw i gyntaf eu hunain i gafodd iawn cyfnod i gyd ond y byddio i'r cwybrwn yn y modelg wedi'i hoffahlun yngh souvent, ac yn awr, ar gyfer Alun ddatancol Un i'w maslwilion uwch yn y gwneud ar gyfer altru 11336,000 ynghylch ar gyfer ddweud i ddechrau eu hunain yw hwnnw i ddweud i ddweud i unrhyw yn ei hunain yng nghydfyniadau 1.9 billion euro a projects right the way up and down Scotland, but it's not just about the economy. We'll also be making the positive case on the social protections, the cultural associations that we have with the European Union and the mutual support in taking on some of the global challenges that the continent faces. Thank you, George Adam. Does the minister agree with me that it would be extremely unjust for Scotland to be dragged out of the EU if a majority of Scots vote to stay in the EU? Is this not just another further example of how out of touch Westminster currently is? I agree with the member. Again, wholeheartedly, I think that it would be democratically indefensible if Scotland was dragged out of the European Union against it. We were told during the run-up to the Scottish independence referendum that a no vote would mean that our place would not be at risk at all in the European Union. I think that that has been proven to be untrue, but it would be democratically indefensible. The First Minister has been very clear that if that is how it did play out, it could precipitate a demand for a second independence referendum. Despite that, the First Minister has made it extremely clear that she will be campaigning vociferously, robustly in Scotland for Scotland to remain within the European Union and hopes that the rest of the UK will follow suit. Thank you. It is no secret that the Scottish Government is having trouble delivering the cap subsidies to farmers in Scotland. What budget would those subsidies come from if we were no longer part of the EU? That is a fair point to make. I have suggested this to those who believe in European Union exit and Brexit. In terms of the cap farmers, he will be pleased to announce that it has been made while the Scottish Government is stepping up to the mark to put £200 million in place in terms of advanced payments. In regard to cap, for those who believe in Brexit and the UK exit from the EU, I would struggle to believe that the UK would match the subsidy, match the support that the European Union gives to farmers. I think that he makes the point very well, for farmers it is important. That is why we have farmers saying up and down the country that they believe in the majority of them that European Union membership is best for the United Kingdom. To ask the Scottish Government when it last met representatives of the film and television industry to discuss the building of a film studio. The film studio delivery group comprising of Scottish Government Creative Scotland and Scottish Enterprise meet regularly to drive action on delivering a film studio for Scotland. That includes meetings with Ward Park Studios Ltd, which today announced plans to expand their existing facilities in Cumbernauld to provide an additional 30,000 sqft across two new 50-foot-high sound studios. Scottish Enterprise and Creative Scotland on behalf of the FSDG also meet regularly with representatives from the screen industry to discuss potential proposals to develop screen facilities. It is worth noting that Creative Scotland is a lead agency for screen, has established the Screen Sector Leadership Group, which met in December 2015 and January 2016, chaired by John McCormack. The Screen Sector Leadership Group is made up of industry representatives and will meet again in March 2016. The cabinet secretary for her response, and those plans for a film studio in Cumbernauld are of course welcome, but today's announcement is only the intention to seek planning permission to extend an existing facility. There is still no major film studio in Scotland which can compete with Wales and Northern Ireland, with the filmmaker saying that this has a catastrophic effect on the industry in Scotland. The Scottish Government has already delayed a decision on the proposals for a private facility in Midlothian until after the election, despite support from local councillors in the TV and film industry. Given that the Scottish Government has stated many times the critical importance of this industry, the Scottish economy, including the white paper, will she assure us that the Scottish Government can this time turn aspiration into reality and not simply delay these important decisions any further? All those developments, and indeed the developments in other parts of the UK, are private sector-developed led. It is not in the capabilities of ministers to pre-announce announcements or drive actions by the private sector. They are in control of their own provisions in that regard, for both the cases that they refer to. I would emphasise that the Peltland studio's proposal is currently with Scottish ministers, and his understanding of planning will mean that I cannot make any comment about that particular development. Indeed, the reason that it is with ministers is that my request by Peltland studios for a recall appeal by the Scottish ministers is what is currently under way. What I can say to you is that we continue, despite the very welcome announcement, a major milestone in development of film studio in Scotland. We still are looking at different proposals and different means to expand the studio opportunities for Scotland. I can tell you now that, as of now, there are four productions currently filming in studios in Scotland. We need to make sure that we have permanent facilities, not just temporary. It is a day that we can welcome the development, a major milestone, in film studio development in Scotland. Thank you. Short questions and answers to the order of the day, please. Supplementary from David Stewart. Thank you, Presiding Officer. The cabinet secretary will be aware that The Hounds and Islands has had a proud track record of being a prime location for films such as Harry Potter, Rob Roy and Monica of the Glen. The cabinet secretary will be well aware that Sky has a first-class facility, a first-class built film studio in Salmore. What more can be done to advertise this first-class facility? Surely Scotland is large enough to provide two film studios? In my evidence to the committee this morning, I made it quite clear that Scotland has the opportunity to realise the potential of film production to have certainly a number of studios. Indeed, I have visited Salmore-Ostig and, obviously, it has been used on a regular basis for Bannon, but also for Katie Morag and other productions. However, I think that it is very important that people are aware of the provision, the existing film studio provision at Salmore-Ostig. I will undertake to make sure that we can do everything with our agencies that we can to help to publicise it to make the most of that facility on the isle of scale. To ask the Scottish Government how traditional instrument tuition fits in with its strategy for the Scottish traditional arts. The Scottish Government primarily supports traditional music and the traditional arts through Creative Scotland, who integrate traditional arts into the broader art strategy. The music initiative by £10 million of Scottish Government investment managed by Creative Scotland provides a wide range of music making opportunities, including traditional instrument tuition, and reached over 225,000 young people in 1415. Last week at the platform in Glasgow, I announced the final tranche of 1516 YMA funding, being awarded to 32 organisations, including £100,000 to the National Piping Centre, over £39,000 to Hands Up for Trad to run a traditional music summer school in South Lanarkshire, and £10,000 to Shape Shifter to deliver a musical and cultural exchange between young people in the Shetland Islands, North East England and East London. Excellent, Rob Gibson. I thank the minister for that detailed answer. While the youth music initiative offers traditional instrument tuition in some places, the delivery is patchy, as is the music tuition delivered by schools. Will the cabinet secretary review the spread of traditional musical instrument tuition, with a view to offering students in Scottish schools a chance to play and understand their own indigenous musical riches? Much of the YMA is delivered in schools, and we are looking to refresh YMA. I will make sure that the refresh acknowledges the point that is made by the member that we need to integrate with existing school provision and enhance existing school provision, but not replace school provision in the traditional arts. Question 4, Jamie McGregor. To ask the Scottish Government how it supports the historic houses and built heritage sector. The Scottish Government supports our historic environment in many ways, including historic houses and the wider built heritage. Historic Environment Scotland is charged with investigating, caring for and promoting Scotland's historic environment. We have launched our first-ever heritage strategy, our place in time. The vast majority of built heritage is in private hands, and the Scottish Government expects Historic Environment Scotland to work with its partners and communities to develop a common vision and priorities set out in the strategy. We recognise that that heritage continues to make a strong and growing contribution to the wellbeing of the nation and its people. To that end, I am very pleased that Lord Hopton, chair of the Historic Houses Association Scotland, sits on one of the strategy's key working groups looking at heritage tourism. I also look forward to attending the association's reception, hosted by the member here this evening. Thank you, Jamie McGregor. I am very glad that the minister mentioned that, and all members and staff are very welcome to come to that event in committee room 1. What extra support can the Scottish Government provide to historic houses in need of urgent repairs? Will she urge ministerial colleagues and others to redouble their efforts to promote heritage tourism in particular? Heritage tourism is vitally important, and I recognise that absolutely. In terms of investment, one of the things that we are looking at is how do we make sure that we take a long-term view in terms of major investment that is required, not just in the private sector, which is the biggest sector, but also with NTS and, indeed, Historic Environment Scotland properties. Despite real pressures on our budget, I have managed to ensure that we maintain the grant schemes that are available, building repair grants and other grants that are available. It is a challenge, but we need to see things in the round, and that includes looking at things from a tourism point of view, but we need to make sure that the products are there so that people can come and visit whether that is historic houses in the private sector, or those that are managed on behalf of ministers. To ask the Scottish Government what it considers the benefits to Scotland are of the UK's membership of the EU. I think that there are many benefits of Scotland and the UK being in the European Union. I will not rehearse some of the economic arguments that are well made. I think that sometimes we can lose fact of the case. It is also a lot of protections and social protections in particular that benefit us here in Scotland from the right to maternity pay, not the right not to be forced to work more than 40 hours a week as well as not to be discriminated against in terms of your gender, your race or any other factor either, so those benefits are also very important. And so, too, the benefits where independent countries can come together to take on some of the most difficult global challenges that we face as a continent, that can be from climate change right the way through to the global refugee crisis as well. So many many benefits, economic, social and as I say, coming collectively together to tackle some of the world's most difficult challenges. Thanks Richard Lyle. Can I thank the minister for his answer? Last Sunday I watched Boris Johnson, MP Mayor of London on the television debating why the UK should leave the EU. His comments during that show reinforced my belief in voting to stay in the EU. In light of the comments that Brexit is making, what would the Scottish Government's position be and what action would it possibly take in regard to the EU vote if England votes to leave the European Union? I do not focus much on what Boris Johnson has to say, but what I have heard thus far from the leave campaign has been very negative. We have seen some of that also from some elements of the remain campaign and the Scottish Government will be looking to make a very positive case about why not just Scotland but the rest of the United Kingdom should also vote to stay within the European Union. There are a number of constitutional hypotheticals that have been asked of us and we have commented on what would happen if Scotland stayed within the European Union. As polls tend to indicate that we will not be complacent about that, we will work hard to ensure that that is the case. However, if the rest of the UK voted to leave, I have said that it would be democratically indefensible on the First Minister's right to say that that might well precipitate demand for a second and Scottish independence referendum. To ask the Scottish Government what value it places on the culture and traditions of the north-east of Scotland. The Scottish Government places great importance on the traditional culture, language and heritage of the north-east of Scotland. It supports Creative Scotland, Events Scotland and Historic Environment Scotland to promote its rich local culture and traditions in different ways. In 1415, Creative Scotland invested over £2.4 million in organisations and individuals based in the north-east of Scotland. Under Time to Shine, £400,000 has supported the youth arts collective of the north-east hub in Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire, giving opportunities for a thousand opportunities for young people to progress excel in the arts. Last year, Creative Scotland published its first Scottish language policy, underlining the organisation's commitment in supporting the language through its own work and the work that it funds across arts, screen and creative industries. Fuhr ministers gang te ge hon te doric. It is very important that we provide support for our languages. Most of that is done through the language minister, Alasdair Allan. I would direct the member's attention to himself. In terms of culture, I would also refer the member to the Creative Scotland website. Just yesterday, they put a piece on about netting by Mourna Young, a play currently touring. It is funded by Creative Scotland. She talks in the interview about writing in Doric about netting and loss at sea. That is an important part of our promotion using Creative Scotland's resource. She is also a Scottish language ambassador. That is one thing, as of now, that we are doing to give a hon up to Doric. To ask the Scottish cabinet secretary whether the Cabinet Secretary for Culture, Europe and External Affairs will be attending any events in the iRite festival in Glasgow. The iRite festival in Glasgow, which is Scotland's second largest book festival, is taking place for the 11th year running. I am sure that successes over these years will be continued. Although I have no plans at present to visit the festival, it is welcoming leaders from all parties in the Parliament at separate events in the series entitled The Books That Made Me, including the First Minister, who is due to close the event on Sunday 20 March. Thank you very much for that response. Glasgow City Council is very proud to hold the iRite book festival, as the Cabinet Secretary says for the past 11 years. It has been observed that the festival has a low participation of people from ethnic minority communities as both participants and contributors. Even though I know personally of several glass visions of diverse backgrounds who have published books in the last years, and I'll just mention some of the writers in Glasgow who I'm proud to know. Ahmed Raza, Aman, Bashirman, Charangill, Farah Malik, Amtazali Gore, Arshad Ahmad, Philomina Malik, my own mother, Rahad Zahid and Nar. There are just 10 writers that I know of of Glasgow who have written books, yet they have not had an opportunity to participate. What is the Scottish Government going to do to increase participation in literary and cultural events in Scotland for those talented people? I think that the member makes a valid point. I'm not sure about plugging his mother's book, how appropriate that is in the Parliament. However, what I would say is that Creative Scotland has supported—I'm sure that it's a wonderful book. The Creative Scotland has funded iRite for £105,000, but one of the things that they are doing—and I've asked them to do—is to look at their equalities issues to make sure that the people they fund, the organisations they fund, take on equalities issues. Since iRite is one of those receiving Creative Scotland funds, that's one way of doing that. I don't often agree with the leader of the Labour Party in Scotland, Kezia Dugdale, but her choice of 1,000 splendid sons as one of her favourite books in the interview, as recalled by Phil Miller, is one of mine as well. That's something perhaps we can share across the benches. To ask the Scottish Government when it last met Creative Scotland and what matters were discussed. Last but not least, with officials from Creative Scotland at the Exchange 2016 event on 4 March at the platform in Easterhouse, which was presented by Music for Youth. I announced £10 million to boost youth music. The event featured performances by young musicians. It's a great opportunity to network and hear about the music industry. The YMI itself, of course, provides high-quality music-making opportunities. Why am I, as the Minister for Creative Scotland, has been a great success? Can she tell us what further evaluation the Scottish Government is undertaking to ensure that Creative Scotland meets its objectives and priorities as set out in their film strategy? What progress has been made to incentivise film and TV production so that we can not only nurture home-grown talent but encourage people from across the world to come and live and work in Scotland? I set some of that out in the committee this morning. On top of the record level of investment of £24 million in the screen industry in Scotland in 2014-15, in addition to that, we have provided additional funding of £4.7 million. Some of that £1 million is for skills development in production. Some of that is for production development and two films in particular in discussions with Creative Scotland just now. On skills, production and development, progress is being made. I was allowed to go into some detail on that in the committee this morning. To ask the Scottish Government what it is doing to support culture in the Highlands and Islands. The Highlands use arts hub received £400,000 to support over 2,700 young people. In 2015-16, Creative Scotland is funding and supporting 69 projects across the Highlands and Islands, a number of examples, but I am sure that we are brief for time. The cabinet secretary will be aware that following financial problems, in-court Theatron de Mines has cancelled its SvQ qualification in drama. It has star graduate been Karen Gillan, the star of Dr Who and Guardians of the Galaxy. Can the cabinet secretary provide any help, advice or guidance to reinstate this well-respected course? Clearly, in terms of Scottish Government or Agency funding, Creative Scotland provides regular funding in the level of £2.1 million over that period. I am very well aware of the very good work that Theatron court carries out, including in skills and training, the wider development. They are very successful in raising funds from a variety of different sources, both private and indeed in revenue terms. In terms of skills and training, we can perhaps look at different areas across Government in terms of whether it is in terms of skills development in Scotland or other areas to make sure that provision for drama or indeed other areas can support the very good work that Theatron court does. Many thanks. We now move to portfolio questions on infrastructure, investment and cities. Question 1, Kevin Stewart. To ask the Scottish Government what progress is being made on the construction of the Aberdeen western peripheral route. Construction of the AWPR is well underway and we are on programme to open the road in winter 2017. We are also working closely with the contractor to ensure the successful delivery of the project. I will continue with the regular engagement with local communities and with elected representatives. I thank the cabinet secretary for his answer. The progress is welcomed by the people of the north-east who have been waiting for the bypass since 1948 when it was first planned. Can the cabinet secretary assure me that work to further improve Aberdeen's road structure by dealing with the notorious Hadigan roundabout will commence directly after the completion of the western peripheral route? I thank Kevin Stewart for his question and his comments. It is quite right to say that there has been a very long wait for this and I am very proud that it is the Scottish Government that is delivering on this long-awaited project, albeit that initially it was a local roads project and we have taken on the responsibility working with our partners in Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire councils. In relation to his question about the Hadigan roundabout, the Scottish Government has given a clear commitment to commencing improvements at the Hadigan roundabout following completion of the AWPR. I am sure that the member knows that the Hadigan and Bridge of D improvements could cut journey times by up to 20 per cent and, indeed, the AWPR itself could cut journey times by up to 50 per cent. Those are hugely welcome developments for the infrastructure of the north east. The cabinet secretary will be aware that the Deputy First Minister announced an additional £306 million of borrowing following the reclassification of the Aberdeen western peripheral route from Eurostat. Will that cover all the outstanding costs of construction or will there be a need for further borrowing in the future? There is no further borrowing required from that which the Deputy First Minister has already announced in relation to the project. Of course, the borrowing generally of the Scottish Government, whether it is to increase borrowing that we now have the ability to undertake, or other aspects of borrowing, has been factored into this. It is very unfortunate that that has been reclassified, because that crowds out potentially further projects. However, the borrowing for the project has been set, and there is no question either that the costs of that will either increase or that it will take longer to complete the project, because of that reclassification regrettable though it is. To ask the Scottish Government what steps it is taking to develop transport infrastructure in Glasgow. The Scottish Government is delivering over £2 billion investment in transport infrastructure in and around Glasgow, including the completion of the motorway network, improving journey times by rail between Glasgow and Edinburgh, as well as investment in Glasgow subway, Fastlink and the Glasgow wider area city deal. What economic benefits does the Scottish Government anticipate for Glasgow as a result of that substantial investment in the city's infrastructure? The infrastructure investment is all about supporting sustainable economic growth through better connectivity, improving the journey times and enhanced public transport, which has to be good for business, employment opportunities, education and healthcare, so delivering economic recovery and improving the infrastructure of our region and our nation. To ask the Scottish Government how its procurement processes encourage the use of local small and medium-sized enterprises. The Scottish Government will introduce legislation in June of this year, requiring public bodies when buying goods or services over £50,000 or when involved in construction type contracts over £2 million, to conduct the procurement exercise with a view to involving SMEs as well as the third sector and supported businesses in the process. That legislation will also require public bodies to advertise such contract opportunities on the Public Contract Scotland PCS website, thereby increasing visibility of such opportunities. PCS also allows main contractors on public sector contracts to advertise subcontract opportunities, giving smaller firms a chance to bid for contracts further down the supply chain. When a main contractor is appointed to manage a project, they are able to use the service to identify local suppliers as a part of the Scottish Government's drive to create a more sustainable supply chain for public sector contracts. Can I say that I have been impressed recently at a meeting with Scotland XL, who in fact just last night won a business award at the Procurement and Innovation awards. However, I am under two if there is a lack of understanding within public bodies as to how local enterprise can be well used to the advantage of both the company, the local authority and indeed the area in general. I wonder if the Scottish Government could take us on board as part of the progress and perhaps issue some very clear guidance as to how we can promote local companies within local communities. I think that the first part of my answer tried to explain to Linda Fabiani how, from the other side, the accession of opportunities by SMEs is being helped, which is right to point out how we can emphasise the benefits of using local SMEs. Local authorities, of course, are responsible for their own individual procurement decisions. The Government, for its part, is committed to ensuring that Scottish SMEs get a fair opportunity. However, we have also developed a suite of tools to improve and standardise the public procurement process and to support SME access. We are currently working with the supplier development programme to improve opportunities for SMEs. Statutory guidance on the sustainable procurement duty, particularly relevant to the point that Linda Fabiani has raised in her supplementary question, will be published shortly. That will build on the range of tools and support available to encourage all public bodies to make contracts accessible and will also help to emphasise the extent to which employing local companies benefits a local economy. To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has to make infrastructure improvements north of Aberdeen. The completion of the AWPR Balmery to Tipperty scheme will provide a dual carriageway link to Ellen and provide significant travel benefits to communities and businesses north of Aberdeen within the next few years. The transport needs of the corridor north of Aberdeen will be considered further as part of the work associated with the Aberdeen city deal, which I announced in January. The AWPR Balmery to Tipperty scheme is expected to be open in winter 2017, with the Balmery to Tipperty section scheduled to open in spring 2017. The cabinet secretary will be aware that Transport Scotland has supported Nestrans in taking forward the Aberdeen to Fraserborough and Peterhead multimodal study. That is a very important piece of work, looking to establish the best option to improve connectivity between the key ports in the north and to the city of Aberdeen and beyond. What assurances can he give us that he will work with the city and Shire and Nestrans to deliver the outcome of that multimodal study? On 28 January, I announced the city deal, plus additional investment from the Scottish Government combined total of around £554 million, which will improve infrastructure housing and support jobs in the north-east. As the member suggests, part of that commitment included a transport appraisal project, which will take a long-term strategic view across all modes and transport needs of the area north of Aberdeen. That will be considered in that context. The transport needs will be considered as part of the city deal transport appraisal, and the emerging outcomes of the Nestrans initial appraisal work will be reviewed in that context. I could also have mentioned other aspects, for example the £170 million investment in the railways from Aberdeen to Manes, and of course the £3 billion plus project for the dualling of the A86. A huge amount of work is going on in the north-east just now. Thanks, Alex Johnstone. The minister may be aware of the why stop at Elin campaign, which is trying to make the case for dualling the road north of Elin towards Peterhead and Fraserborough. Is there any prospect that the minister may consider that outwith the multimodal study that has previously been described? I think that any consideration of something like that project, and I'm aware of the campaign surrounding that, would have to be considered in relation to the transport project appraisal that's been undertaken currently. To ask the Scottish Government what improvements have been made at Stirling railway station to improve the experience for passengers. Minister Derek Mackay Stirling station has received significant investment in passenger facilities over the past few years, and this has delivered the full refurbishment of the ticket office, new ticket counters, automatic doors to the waiting areas, automatic ticket gates, two ticket machines, platform resurfacing and new customer information screens. With its attractive layout and excellent backdrop, Stirling was chosen as the venue to mark the beginning of the new ScotRail franchise in April 2015. I thank the minister for his answer. I feel totally spoiled with that answer, I've got to say. Can the minister please confirm that he is aware that individuals with mobility disability can face difficulties accessing some platforms at Stirling station? Could he please tell me if Stirling council have ever made a bid to the Scottish stations fund to improve disability access at Stirling station? Would he also agree with me the huge importance of tourism to the Stirling economy that it's important that left luggage facilities are introduced at the station? Would he encourage Network Rail to introduce such facilities at the earliest possible date and spoil me even more? More than one question to minister. I'll be brief then, on the left luggage issue, that's a commercial decision for Abellio and the Alliance. I would encourage that, I think that it makes commercial sense with the tourist destination that is Stirling. I am aware of the accessibility issues and some of that has UK involvement in terms of accessibility funds but no, we have not received a bid to the station's fund and I would welcome a bid from that to be able to look at Stirling station because there is an issue about accessibility, disabled access and I have been working on it as has Keith Brown and we will continue to do so. To ask the Scottish Government what recent discussions it has had with Network Rail regarding the upgrading of the railway station at Preswick airport. The Scottish Government has not had any recent discussions with Network Rail regarding the upgrading of the railway station at Preswick airport but transport Scotland officials met with the owner on 9 February. Any potential upgrades to the station are the responsibility of the owner, Glasgow Preswick airport, who operate on a wholly commercial basis and at arms length from the Scottish Government. For his answer about Preswick airport, three years ago a full development plan, £4.2 million was produced by Network Rail in concert with the owner. The report regarding bringing the existing railhead up to a standard anticipated and expected by tourists. It may be in a locked cabinet somewhere. Can the cabinet secretary ask Network Rail to now resurrect it? I refer the member to that part of my first answer, which explains where the responsibility lay. The 2013 Network Rail report to which he refers indicated that it would cost between £4 and £5 million to bring the station up to the required standard in line with an international gateway. I repeat the point that any future investment will be considered by the business. I know that the member is regularly involved in discussions with Preswick airport, but that will be considered alongside other investment demands across the Preswick airport estate. To ask the Scottish Government how the fourth road bridge closure has affected the condition of roads on diversionary routes. Where possible, Transport Scotland kept diverted traffic, including HGVs, on the trunk road network to avoid disruption on local roads. For example, we utilised the pre-arranged standard incident diversion route for the fourth road bridge using the M9, M876, A876 and A985. To keep the diversion route running freely, Transport Scotland completed additional pavement inspections during the bridge closure, and any perceived accelerated deterioration will be taken into account when planned remedial works and reconstruction schemes for those routes are decided in the coming months and years. The maintenance and management of local roads is the responsibility of relevant local authorities, and the Scottish Government greatly appreciates their efforts during the closure period. Mark Griffin. I thank the minister for that answer. Can the minister tell me if the assessment of the trunk road network has flagged up any issues with the higher than normal volume of traffic, particularly that extended period where HGVs were using the routes? Also, if any local authorities have made any claims to any additional damage to their road network that they are responsible for, and if the minister is an indication of the cost to central and local government to the diversions that were in place? Assuming that the question is really around the actual condition of the carriageways, I do not have that level of detail and accelerated deterioration, but general wear and tear would have increased as the roads were potentially more heavily used by HGVs. I am not aware of any detailed claim from a local authority, but there has been on-going engagement with the business sector, local authority and communities, and other following the issues around the fourth road bridge. Of course, in terms of investment decisions to the future, as I said earlier in my answer, roads are inspected, remedial works and reconstruction are programmed on the basis of need, and it is on that basis that we will proceed. 8. Gordon MacDonald To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to increase active travel. We are increasing our investment in active travel with the annual budget for walking and cycling in 2015-16 at record levels and 70 per cent higher than in 2013-14. This funding has helped to deliver 330 miles of new pass and a further 95 miles upgraded or resurfaced between April 2011 and April 2015. In addition, 40.1 per cent of schools now offer bikeability Scotland on-road cycle training up from 31.5 per cent in 2010. Scottish canals are currently upgrading towpaths across Scotland, including the path on the union canal and my constituency between Rathaw and Hermiston that will benefit walkers and cyclists. Does the minister agree that investment of this type is desirable not only in reducing cabin emissions but also in improving health, fitness and wellbeing? Yes, I entirely agree with Mr MacDonald. I started off the ministerial week as it happens that I visit to a canal looking at regeneration opportunity and regeneration investment until it is good for our healthy lifestyles, the environment and, of course, the economic opportunity. I concur with what Mr MacDonald has said. I think that Scottish canals are doing a very good job with the settlement and the resources that they have. To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on RNT union commissioned report on the economic benefits of public sector ferry provision on lifeline services in the Clyde and Hebrides. The Scottish Government fully recognises that Scotland's ferry services provide economic benefits to our island communities and are fully committed to the continued delivery of safe, reliable public loan ferry services, as evidenced by the record £1 billion investment in those services, vessels and ports since 2007. I thank the minister for his response. I point the minister to the conclusion in the report that suggested how damaging the privatisation of the ferry services in the Clyde and Hebrides would be should the tender process go to Serco. I ask him if he is also aware that, prior to the Scottish Government overturning North Lanarkshire Council's decision to reject the planning development proposed by Peter D Stirling in my constituency, Transport Scotland officials had approached a freight transport company in my constituency to encourage them to speak to that developer before they had been given planning permission in order to take advantage of the potential privatisation of the Hebrides ferry services and pushing them towards Serco. How can Transport Scotland officials talk to a private company and advise them to speak to another private company to take advantage of a decision that has not yet been made? First of all, I have no direct knowledge of the secondary issue that has been raised, but I have very deep concerns about the accusation that has been made about Transport Scotland officials—very deep concerns indeed. In terms of the ferries issue, the Government has invested substantially in ferries, including the procurement of two new ferries that will be built in Scotland at Ferguson's. However, when it comes to the tender process, Mr MacMahon, of all people, is well aware that the previous executive undertook a tender process. In fact, I am fairly sure that Mr MacMahon said to not undertake this process. It would have been dangerous and risky in itself, and we put the services at risk. We are not putting the services at risk. The vessels will stay publicly owned. We will continue to set the fares at and at timetables. We will continue to invest in the ferry services of Scotland. We will comply with the law, but I think that the people of the islands know that, when it comes to the islands, this Government has delivered on ferries, on RET, on enhancements, on aviation as well, and a whole range of areas. We will continue to deliver for the public services of our island communities. That concludes support for your questions. We will now move to the next item of business, which is a debate on motion number 158.