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It strikes me that @JayPii81's request is very close to an "outlining" function much like MS Word's for Evernote. It's not there, yet. Here's another approach with the current version of Evernote: Convert your "section" names to Evernote Note Titles. Place (or leave) your information below the "section" names in the body of the Notes. Then, you can look at a "Note List" to see what you call "sections" and then click on the name of one and see the subordinate information in the "Note Panel". If you need another level in the hierarchy of your information, then put the Notes in 2 or more Evernote "Notebooks". @s2sailor - The same approach might work for you. Or how about this? Change the structure of your Evernote Notes so one "Note" is one and only one of your "topics". Put the name of the "topic" in the title of the "Note" and details about the "topic" in the body of the "Note". Then, give an Evernote "Tag" to each "topic" Note that indicates what meeting (or meetings) it applies to. Give each Note another Tag that indicates how "important" it is. Then, when the meeting starts, have Evernote search for the appropriate meeting "Tag" and those "Notes" which meet your "importance: criteria. A side-benefit of this structure is that you could easily develop a list with Evernote that shows all the high "importance" topics, regardless of the meetings they apply to.

PeeJayTee's original post on this topic was on September 22, 2015. Notwithstanding the good ideas users have posted in this forum for fixes and enhancements to the Note Editor, I'm wondering what the Evernote development team thinks is the status of the original project. Since 9/15, there have been a variety of fixes and enhancements to the Note Editor in most (all?) versions of Evernote. Does that mean all the objectives of the original project have been met / implemented? I understand that there may be fixes or enhancements to the Note Editor in the future. My question is about the original project. - - - Is it completed?

@conejo23 - There aren't many different criteria that an Evernote user can base his structure scheme on. Examples are "Who", "What", "When", "Where", "Type". Given the issue you have raised, I would add "Purpose" to the list. When it comes to your 2016 Taxes, it seems to me that you chosen to define a Notebook around the "purpose" of the documents in your Evernote database and to use Tags to define the "Type" of documents (W2, K1). That's all well and good. I suspect it will work just fine for you. I believe what DTLow was pointing out to you was essentially the reverse. That is, define your Notebooks around the "Type" of documents (receipts, and insurance policies, which you have already done) and define your Tags around the "Purpose" of the document (and documents commonly have multiple purposes). As I look at the names of my Notebooks, most of them conform to this structural scheme. One reason I like this structure is that the "Type" of a document isn't likely to ever change, while when I either create or obtain a new document (or, in general, information), I can't always anticipate the future "purposes" I might have for it. - - - In addition, as a user's Evernote database grows, I think this kind of structural scheme will be more effective. And, of course, there is on other basic scheme. That is: 1 Notebook, no Tags, and add/use keywords with the title or body of the Notes. But again, go with what you believe is going to work well for you with your 2016 Taxes. - - - My suggesting would be that you (and any Evernote user) sit down and spend 10-15 minutes and seriously think about what scheme you will use for Notebooks and Tags. Then, adhere to it as best as you can for at least a few weeks. Over time (months to years), I sense that a fair amount of Evernote users change their scheme as they become more aware of the kinds of material they have been putting into Evernote. - - - And it's not a big deal to change a scheme. One of the great features of Evernote is that it will allow you to change the Notebook or Tag of a large batch of Notes all at one time.

Here is a link to a post I previously made to this forum, offering an idea on how to sort Notes manually. https://discussion.evernote.com/topic/89871-how-do-i-manually-order-notes-for-presentation-mode/ @Ein Doofus - I believe that approach will handle the classroom examples that you mentioned, but I suspect it won't meet your expectations.

JimInSanDiego - Here is an different perspective. Ask yourself why do you want to paste information from a spreadsheet into an Evernote Note? You could "attach" the spreadsheet to a Note. Would that work for you in this instance?

Bongolu - Would it solve your problem if you just put the Notes you don't want other people to see in one specific Notebook that you don't open in their presence? Another option is to encrypt the text that you don't want others to see. I can envision that this may not be practical. Here is another idea. Place Notes that you don't want others to see in the Trash. Notes in Trash on the Windows version of EN do not show up on lists. The obvious downside of doing this is that you need to remember to move them out of the Trash before you delete the rest of the Notes in the Trash.

Norm3 - This is a work-around and somewhat cludgy, but try it to see if you think it is better than any other option. Create a Note that includes some text in the various styles that you think you might use several times. One row per style. You may end up with 2-5 lines, each with different styles. Put one or more blanks lines between them. Keep this special Note open most of the time. Then, when you create or are working with some other Note and you want to apply a particular style, copy it from the special Note with multiple styles and paste it where you want it. You might find this is faster than establishing a style within a new Note by selecting the font, size, color, and other attributes.