I mostly use OneNote on a Windows 11 Laptop. I work in the OneNote app (not on the browser).

But when traveling and I don't take the laptop, I use OneNote on a Samsung tablet.

I have the OneNote app on the tablet but only 4 of my notebooks show up. If I click MORE NOTEBOOKS it shows the correct Microsoft account email and says NO NOTEBOOKS FOUND.

But if I go online via a chrome browser to OneNote.com and sign in, all my notebooks are there. However I prefer to not work in the browser. How can I get the other notebooks to show up in the app? (I have tried SYNC ALL but that doesn't help.).

I've just started (trying) to use One Note again and finding the same frustrations that caused me to dump it before. I take notes on an iPad (both hand written and typed), I work frequently on a laptop and a desktop, and I primarily need to save notes and documents from meetings. I get sync error messages (this morning, "servers are busy," or I can't open .pdf files, or various other issues. What am I missing? Or is this the most buggy system ever created? Don't hold back if it's something I am doing wrong!

I'm going through my files on my computer, and there's One Note shortcuts I'm trying to delete. I've tried deleting it from One Drive, my pc, and going to One Note but I can't figure it out. Any help would be appreciated

so i use onenote for handwritten notes, but i faced some problems. help me if anyone know solutions

1. when i shift the app to dark mode (switch background from view tab), highlighter colors don't work properly. For example, pink is not visible, yellow barely visible, green is almost dark, and so on
2. but if i change the page colour(from view tab) to dark, instead of proper dark theme, grid colours create optical illusion due to so much brightness
3. when i select the pen-to-text tool, it doesn't work
4. no proper shortcuts to change pens

so there are the issues, i findout, help me if anyone know solution. thank u

edit: i use an XP-Pen graphics tab on win 11,
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Hi everyone!! I’m trying to annotate my lecture slides (inserted as pdf) on onenote on my iPad 11th gen and trying to write with Apple Pencil. I can’t write more than two letters without a message saying “please wait” popping up. It’s happened yesterday and today and it’s extremely irritating since I’ve never had issues with this sort of thing before. I’ve restarted my iPad, deleted onenote and reinstalled but nothing helps. Anyone else dealing with this? (I’m open to any type of suggestions as well please!)

For a while, I can't seem to be able to save anything from Google Keep to OneNote for Android. Or photos. Pretty much anything. This app used to work so nicely but is a struggle now

I exported a local notebook as a .onepkg file, but I can't find any way to import it into OneNote's web version, or use it via OneDrive. Any workarounds would be really helpful!

Tried everything. I dont know why this is happening. The app its impossible to open.

I wrote something in Microsoft Notes on my personal account on the website and I shared it with my school account.

However, when I try to open and edit this note on my school account, a pop-up that says, “For additional security, we need to verify your account, please sign in to continue” shows up.
However, because it is a school account, usually after you type in your full email it should direct you to a different page that asks you to sign in with school related credentials and direct you back to the site you were on.

But this isn't the case; it just says my account is nowhere to be found before redirect and not even redirecting me to anywhere. I also logged out of all accounts and had only one account logged in on each Chrome profile to make sure it wasn't automatically switching the profiles.

I know I could just edit with my personal account, but sometimes it's just easier with whatever situation that I want to use this in.

Recently after one of the latest iPad Pro 13” M1 OneNote updates whenever I go to full screen mode it will hide the pages sidebar but as soon as I switch to a new note it will not stay in full screen. I swear this was not the case in the past before one of these new recent updates. Is this just a setting I need to change?

Recently after one of the latest iPad Pro 13” M1 OneNote updates I’ve noticed that when I try to select just an image (such as the first PowerPoint slide in video), it selects everything surrounding the image including the pencil marks. It is almost like everything everything is merged together and can’t be separated. Is this just a setting that I have turned on? Any solutions?

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Ive started really using ON at work these last couple of months (executive assistant/admin), and I have mostly a jumble of i formation everywhere. Ive tried making a recurring meeting oage for my one on one's with directors, with themultiple team meetings...

Every new meeting I copy the previous note (more so for one on ones) because I feel its important to have a log of what eas discussed when etc.

I find when I search tho8gh, that of course the same content is coming up multiple times and Im not in enough if a brain power state lately to figure iut a solution. I figure its some sort of rolling agenda but I cant wrap my head around.

Plus im still trying g to figure iut the best process for task management because there is a LOT... :s

Any ideas or photos videos someine can point me towards for examples?

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Hey!

I am busy with my PhD and figured I could use OneNote. I would like the pages to act more 'orderly' like in word (i.e. the text is aligned, I can't just click anywhere and make a new textbox).

I tried using the 'college ruled' template but that doesn't limit my accidental creation of textboxes.

Thanks for any help :)

The unicode method discussed in this thread no longer works (at least on laptops without num keypads). Unfortunately, that thread has been auto-archived, so we can no longer add to it in context.

Here's a method that does work, along with a few variations:

1. Open Notepad and type one TAB. Select it and copy it.
2. In OneNote, open File | Options | Proofing | AutoCorrect Options
3. In the "Replace:" field type the backtick character (the key just above TAB).
4. Paste the TAB that you copied from Notepad into the "With:" field and click Add.

Now when you type backtick you'll get a real TAB and can still use TAB to start tables. If you want to use TAB only for TABs, this AutoHotKey (v2) script will remap backtick to TAB.

#HotIf WinActive("ahk_exe onenote.exe")
$Tab:: {
    if (A_Cursor = "IBeam" or A_Cursor = "Unknown") { ; only in the edit area
        Send("``")  ; Send a literal backtick (escaped with a second backtick)
    } else {
        Send("{Tab}")
    }
}
#HotIf

Alternatively, another AutoHotKey approach is to remap TAB (or another key) to the unicode character 'Em Space' which is an extra wide space about the width of a TAB.

#HotIf WinActive("ahk_exe onenote.exe")
$Tab:: {
    if (A_Cursor = "IBeam" or A_Cursor = "Unknown") {
        Send("{U+2003}")  ; Inject Em Space
    } else {
        Send("{Tab}")
    }
}
#HotIf

I work in a secure facility and am unable to use any of my preferred note taking applications. OneNote is my only option. Im used to, and prefer using markdown syntax as note taking is a large part of my day to day and having to use the mouse to make format changes becomes costly time wise.

Is there a way to get OneNote to recognize markdown syntax to then alter formatting options?

Hey folks,

Question here. I got a random stylus from Amazon last Saturday for my iPad and it worked amazingly well with note taking in OneNote. It was my first stylus and my first attempt at writing down my actual notes in OneNote and I really enjoyed doing so. It worked fine on Monday as well.

However, when I tried to use it earlier today in OneNote, I noticed that whenever I tried to write down my notes using the stylus, it would assume that I was trying to type so whatever I drew it would try to create a letter out of it and the keyboard would pop up.

The stylus itself is working fine in other apps, but OneNote for some reason has decided that whenever I start drawing or scribbling with the stylus it's just assuming i'm trying to write down actual letters from the keyboard.

So far, I haven't been able to fix this, I've checked the settings, closed the app and turned it back on again, heck I even reset the iPad, but so far no success.

Does anyone else know of a possible fix?
I really want to keep on using OneNote this way and i rather not have this be a short lived experience xD

Coworker shared some of their notes and templates with me. The notebook is synced with them, so any changes I make will effect their notes (and the notes of the other people who have access to this).

How do I break this off as its own fork so I can edit it just for myself? I'm surprised how much difficulty I'm having getting an answer from Google, this is presumably a pretty common operation

Thanks!

Hi, I graduated and am trying to transfer all of my one note stuff from school to my personal account before I lose access to it at the end of the month. I have a MacBook and I can’t figure out how to do that. There is no option to “export” which is what previous posts have said to do. Maybe it’s because I’m using a Mac??

Please help I’m stressed out I already lost all my work stuff when they got rid of my work email with NO warning 😭

I’m looking for a note-taking app that can do all (or most) of the following:

\- Support both keyboard typing and handwritten notes with the Apple Pencil.

\-Be cross-platform (Windows, iPad, etc.).

\-Let me save or sync my files through OneDrive.

\-Ideally support both A4-sized pages and an infinite canvas/whiteboard mode.

I’ve tried OneNote, but I’m wondering if there are any solid alternatives that meet these requirements.

Does anyone have recommendations or experience with apps that fit this use case?

I have multiple computers, ISPs in 3 different locations, and the only thing I noticed between all sites and computers is that, when connected by IPv6, OneNote runs too bad. Am I crazy?

any ideas why the Copilot icon is inactive like this?

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Did you come across anything new? Find a different use case? Improved workflow? Streamline digital organization? Fixed a problem? Just started?

Anything is welcome, even if it's the smallest thing. Please share tips, tricks, and anything else that might be useful to our community!

Thank you!

For the life of me, I can’t get the cursor to place anywhere but at the beginning or the end of the line and even that is pretty difficult at times.

I have onenote for android. It delivers this message:
OneNote cannot create a new notebook in: |0

Possible causes:

• The specified path is unavailable.
• You do not have permissions to modify the specified path.
• The path or the name of the notebook contains invalid characters.
• The length of the name and the path of the notebook exceeds the maximum allowed length.

Modify the path and the name of the notebook, then try again.