I like this app, and o really, really, REALLY need to organize my self at work.
O use it a lot, but one thing that makes the work flow to use it bad is the sticky notes feature. It's not that great in Windows and I'm android there isn't a quick way to just press an icon and add a note. You have to press 3 or 4 buttons in the UI to get there.
Is there any alternatives I'm missing?
I don't care for this.
Is this something I can get rid of? Another push towards centralizing everything in Obsidian:(
Hi All,
I'm fininshing up with university and have 6 Onenote notebooks I would like to download off my account.
What's the best way to do this? I've already downloaded them using the Onenote application into a Onenote package file, but If I open them to view, the images do not display.
Is this expected or is there something else I can try?
In summary
What's the best way to download my onenote notebooks?
If I download it as a Onenote package file (which I have), am I not able to see the images that were on the pages
Thank you!
I have a OneNote that I keep on a flash drive and move between two computers (one on Windows 10, one on Windows 11). The last time I edited it, I added a single page with about 10 lines of text. I moved it to the other computer today and the new page was missing. When I tried to sync I got the message "OneNote Can't Sync This Page. To prevent data loss, please copy your notes to a new page, and then delete the current page. (Error code: 0xE0000140 bgvdi)"
When I clicked on "Go to page" it just showed whatever page I was already on. I assumed this was because it was on the new page that wasn't displaying. I moved it to the other computer, copied the text from the new page, made a new page, pasted it, and deleted the page. I got the same error. So I copied the text to a previous page and deleted the page. Now, when I click "go to page" I get an error that says, "Sorry, we can't open this section because we found a problem with its contents." I get the same message if I try to open the OneNote in the web app. But I can open every single page in the notebook, so I have no idea what it can't open. I even removed all of the new contents to a text file, incase there was some weird relic there causing the issue and nothing changed.
I emptied the recycle bin, and repaired the app. I have 100+ pages, so I'm not copying them all individually.
Any ideas?
Hi everyone new here , I was wondering how can I delete my notebooks in my one note app On my phone
Option to back up files locally isn’t available in the settings. I can’t export as PDF too. The most common solution I’m seeing online is to move/copy to another account. Is this really the only way?
I’m scared to add a new account because I’m so worried that I wouldn’t be able to go back into my deactivated school account.
Random observation but it's been bugging me for a while. I use OneNote primarly on my Mac and sometimes on a Windows laptop, and the Mac version is genuinely nicer to use. The app on Mac just looks more organized, cleaner layout, stuff feels like it's actually in the right place, on Windows it's kind of a mess visually, like it's been patched together over the years, whic it probably has.
Sync is a big deal for me though, on Mac it just works, notes show up where they should, no drama, on Windows I've had way more weirdness with stuff not syncing right away or needing a restart to catch up. Overall the Mac app just feels nicer to actually sit down and use, hard to explain exactly why, it's not one specific feature, it's more that everything feels more thought out.
Honestly at this point if I'm on Windows, I'm probably better off just using OneNote in the browser instead of the actual desktop app.
Am I crazy?
Onenote for Windows 10 used to be my second favorite app. Since it is now deprecated (made read only), I need to use Onenote desktop, which has a lot of limitations, at least as to math – latex capabilities. Now one more headache has popped up which makes onenote desktop practically useless. As shown in the attached image, I can see only the first character of the page list, I cannot expand it! I consulted copilot for a couple of hours, nothing worked. Copilot finally said I should uninstall and then re-install onenote. The problem persisted. Copilot suggested I uninstall and then reinstall office 365. The problem persisted. I finally asked Copilot to provide me the phone number to Technical assistance where I could talk to a human being. Copilot provided a phone number with a small script as to what I should tell the technician. I called the number, a robot ask me to describe the problem, I basically read the script, and then I was given links to web pages where different onenote problems were discussed!
Help! I need onenote!
· Can anyone make any suggestions as to how to be able to make onenote normal, i.e. allowing me to be able to read the page listing panel?
· Can anyone give me a phone number to Microsoft support where I can talk to a human being?
Hi guys, recently when I open onenote, it’s not letting me write with my iPad pen. There’s no update in the appstore or anything. Any tips?
IS anyone having issues with the online importer tool not loading. The link is still active on Microsoft's website, but the link won't load.
https://www.onenote.com/notebooks/exportimport?toImport=true&auth=1&fromAR=1
I recently uninstalled and reinstalled Onenote (after removing office from the PC) to have a fresh start on wy Windows 11 PC. However, after logging into my account, I am unable to open my Onenote Notebook. I get the following error:
> OneNote can't open this notebook because it can't connect to the server. Please try again.
I tried uninstalling again, removing all OneNote folders from the appdata folder, rebooting and installing OneNote again from store, same result.
I have OneDrive on the same Windows 11 PC and it's connecting fine and I can see all my files including the OneNote notebook file. I can log into OneNote from the browser and see all the notes in the notebook just fine.
Any guess what could be going wrong and what I can do to fix it?
Tried to share one of the notebooks, with another person and since then the One-note has become Read only. I have a LOT of information stored, don't want to lose the data, and also want to continue to use it, what to do
any solution to fix this??
This has probably been asked and answered before but I’ll take a chance. I’ve saved/put in a spreadsheet but can’t edit it later. Am I doing something wrong or is this a OneNote quirk?
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OneNote has been out for nearly a quarter century and it still has dreadful locale support.
The only English language OCR it does is tagged as US English, which means all the British/Australian spellings are all marked as misspelled. Why it can't just follow the app/user preference and extract it as that English locale is beyond me.
The general lack of consistency of language features across the Office suite is frustrating.
Hi, I'm kinda new to onenote so I'm confused why you can't sync the notebooks you have on desktop (windows 10) to your mobile app unless it's location is saved on Onedrive? I have one notebook that's saved on Onedrive, and it syncs without a problem, but my other notebooks are saved on other disks, and there isn't an option to sync them. Other than moving them to onedrive (I don't wanna do that because in my country internet isn't guaranteed and I can't access the notebook that's on onedrive without internet connection) what can I do?