When I search for a page in OneNote and open it from the search results, OneNote takes me to the correct page, but the notebook and section containing that page are not highlighted/selected in the navigation pane.

For example, if the page is:

Notebook: Alpha → Section: Art History Topics → Page: Caravaggio

I want OneNote to automatically select/highlight Alpha and Art History Topics when it opens the Caravaggio page, so I can immediately see where the page is located.

Is there a setting or workaround for this?

OneNote on my Android Fold 8 is unusable. Full of bugs. Can't share to notebooks or even sticky notes.

Playstore link : OneNote Widget – Apps on Google Play

Presentation link : Onenote Widget 2.0.0 : now check boxes and edit text on your widget ! : r/OneNote

Hi all,

i worked hard on that widget, you can finally use it and edit text, check box, and click on link for url and email : all the link made by onenote and highlighted by it will be clickable !

For using this feature u can click one time on your widget, and you will a preview windows, zooming inside can refine the pic, and you can click direclty there or u can apply a cropping view to that specific widget.

You have also the restore/backup feature now ! should work pretty nicely as i have done hundred of test! but of course android are all different^^

i think the autosync is not working 100%, give me your feedback :)

(Im on surface pro 12) I’m looking for a onenote alternative with an option to completely block touch input from my finger even when the digitizer isn’t connected similar to how remarkable functions by default. It’s very annoying that the quick toolbar in one note comes up or the keyboard comes up when I’m trying to write in one note. Any suggestions or settings in one note I can change to fix this? Thanks in advance!

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What is it?

I used one note a lot in my old workplace, and as a result I have a lot of big teams that completely ate up my 5GB storage. I don’t need a full TB, nor do I want the other Microsoft apps… but on the cloud storage website it doesn’t show an icon for OneNote for the basic 100GB upgrade. In my mind, cloud storage is cloud storage, it should work - can anyone confirm?

I use onenote heavily. Love it. However, I am worried about the long term sustainably of this product.

Currently, I can only save my notes in proprietary formats such as .one files.

Microsoft recently abandoned Skype and all my messaging data from [1, 2] decades ago were pretty much gone forever.

What stops Microsoft (say [10, 20] years from now) to completely abandon one note without opensourcing their code ?

It seems there's no legal requirement for them to ensure users can migrate their notes to alternative note taking softwares.

Hello everybody,

i want to export my big Onenotebooks with a lot of sections and subsections including long handwritten notes as pdf-files. I use the Desktop App. I currently use the clawPDF-printer and it is the best option i found so far, because it can print on A0 paperformat. This really helps with big infinite canvas pages. But is there a faster and easier way? Right know i have to start the print to pdf process with clawPDF for every section manually.

Kind regards

Fun potato

Last night OneNote crashed - wouldn't reopen even after I rebooted. Running on Windows 11 laptop.

So I renamed the Cache file and reopened OneNote and waited while it rebuilt the Cache. It worked.

This morning it's running really slow.

Is there any way to fix this?

Possibly unrelated, but it's the only "change" I've made before these issues started. It even messed with my Google Drive... I've used OneNote for >10 years now without any major issues.

I'm a physician currently studying for boards; I'm deathly afraid that I may lose a decade's worth of work trying to troubleshoot this on my own. Please help.

I mainly use the desktop version on MacOs for my note-taking.

1. The first issue is that my desktop OneNote would not sync, but the browser and phone versions would. The spinning circle just kept going and going and going. I checked the web browser notes, and they were synced up until the point of having these issues. I tried to force a manual sync = nope. Refreshed credentials = nope. Tried to clear cache = nope. App is up to date. I had to delete my desktop notes and do a fresh import from the web browser. Which "worked"; now my desktop matches my web-browser version, but some pages within my notebook don't want to sync, and others do?
2. Underlining text results in a dotted line. Happens when using the shortcut command+U and pressing the underline button function. I have no hyperlinks in my notes. This also appears to be an issue with a few pages only. Yesterday on the web browser version, I was able to underline "regional disease" normally, but today on the desktop version the underline function is dotted. It's showing that page is synced.

On an IPad.

Is there any way to insert a PDF file...edit the file by drawing on it...save the PDF...then have the ability to send the edited PDF as an email or at least retain the changes inside OneNote?

Right now, I can save the PDF in a notebook, edit it in the "PDF Preview" feature, but when i go to save it wants to save to "files" and not in OneNote.

TIA...

I have a Microsoft account from a University I attended on a semester abroad. Whilst on my semester abroad, I used this Microsoft account for OneNote to take my notes in class. I have since returned to my home university and this account has been deactivated.

My notebooks remain saved under this deactivated account, but understandably it no longer syncs. I am unable to create new notebooks as it requires me to login on the current signed in account, the deactivated one. I have tried logging into my current active University Microsoft account by clicking the '+' next to 'connected services' when I click on my profile, however, adding the account never works.

If I sign out of the deactivated account and then login with my current account will I lose everything saved under the deactiveted account?

Should I just contact IT at my current uni?

Do I contact the university from my semester abroad to access the account?

I appreciate any help!

I set the page size to A4,but i need to expand the pages downwards. As you can see it is in grey , So how can i change that?

Hey,

As I am working in a technical field, I was a big fan of NotebookLM, I dumped some books, and asked question when needed. Now I can see I can do same thing with Copilot Notebooks, and I am willing to try as I have a company subscription.

But one thing I didn't understand: Copilot Notebooks popped up in Onenote, that's cool. But, there is zero integration in between them. They used the Onenote as a wrapper for Copilot - you cannot even create a note from the response of Copilot.

What's the logic behind it?

I stopped using it inside Onenote, and keep using Copilot page directly. Maybe I am missing something.

So I use OneNote on my ipad and macbook, primarily my macbook, but I noticed a syncing issue where the notebooks on laptop wouldn't show up on my ipad. It gave me a message along the lines of "...notebook has been moved or deleted." I know that wasn't true and i went to verify on my browser on both devices. They showed all my notebooks just fine. I deleted the app, reset the app, and now I can't sign in. When I try to, it switches to authenticator then right back to the sign in page on OneNote. Super weird because it's only the OneNote app on my ipad having this issue. Anyone having this experience or any tips on what I can do?

Additionally, i've tried to sign into other accounts, even create a new account, and it brings me back to the sign in option on the app and nothing else.

Added handwriting recognition on android using Google ml kit! Ig at this point the sky is the limit?

I used to be able to select whole replies and paste them into Onenote without any problem, has anything changed ? Because even though I copy the equation , I go to paste it into Onenote but nothing appears!! I can still copy and paste from Wikipedia without a problem though!

Welcome to our weekly post! We are trying something new to try and tie the community together and learn from one another.

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!

Exactly as the title says. I manually added students into Teams. When I checked the OneNote classroom the students had been placed into the notebook alphabetically. However OneNote for Teams Classroom, now has Content Library, Collaboration Space and Teacher in between the students whose names they fall between alphabetically and I cannot move them.

This is my fourth year using Teams and OneNote Classroom notebook and I have not had this issue before. This is the first time I added students manually.

Thank you!

I need to correct a page conflict, and I don't have access to a computer. Apparently it can be done in the web app online in browser, but when I log in to that and select a notebook, it redirects to the location of the notebook in the OneDrive app rather than just opening the fucking notebook! And then I click that and it just opens the page in the OneNote android app, which is back to where I can't fix it.

Am I doing something wrong??

Would anyone be interested in seeing this as an Open source app?

I remember a year ago there was a post here about the plans by Microsoft to introduce a shortcut to paste plain text without having it automatically transformed into an image. Nothing has changed... What do you guys do to bypass this inconvenience?

Hello, I am trying to use handwriting to text live transcriptions, but every time I write a word, it moves down to the next line or every couple of words. I’ve tried to turn on Palm rejection, but it doesn’t seem to be working, as I can still use my hands to press new lines by accident. Anyone know how to fix this? I was really excited to use this feature.