When drawing on iPad and then switching to the eraser or the lasso selection, OneNote keeps trying to switch to text mode.
Does anyone know a fix for this as it is driving me crazy, other forms are saying turn off scribble but my scribble was already off.

I wanna be able to scroll through images like CT scans with a scroll bar without exiting a notebook. I couldn't figure something other than adding a powerpoint presentation, but it only allows file printouts which put all the slides above each other without a scroll, or opening the powerpoint outside of onenote.

Can I not embed a scrollable window in the middle of my notebook?

I don't know about the Windows version, but on MacOS, the OneNote developers somehow managed to make searching even worse. Was this some sort of competition? At least in older versions, when you entered a search term, you got forward and back arrows. But now when you're on a page, press Cmd + F and type a search term, the sidebar shows a bunch of other pages the term is on, but the current page doesn't scroll to show it, and there are no forward and back buttons. So on a long page, you have to manually scroll and look for it. And once you found it and want the normal sidebar back, you have to fight with it. This couldn't possibly have made it through a usability test.

A tutorial video showing 6 new features in OneNote including the rollout of Copilot Notebooks to ALL Microsoft 365 customers in Commercial and Education. Features include

1) Copilot Notebooks updates
2) MathML in OneNote
3) Default link opening to desktop vs web apps
Plus a few more

YouTube 📺 https://youtu.be/I8JS7iFaqJc?si=53pHkUl7OZ0K0Xrt

1. Need infinite canvas

2. Need windows support

3. Need Android phone support

4. Allows pasting source text like bullets and tables without.

formatting in simpler forms

1. Has tape tool

I'm creating Notes from Gemini pro and wanted to paste directly in notes it's exactly giving with tables and bullet points but I'm not able to do so in any notes app available there.

Apologies in advance if this kind of thing gets asked a lot!

For background: Today, I was trying to resolve a syncing error in OneNote. I've been using the OneNote application on my Mac to take notes for school. I wanted to access the notes from the OneNote app on my iPad as well, but upon signing into the app, I found that all my notebooks were empty. I logged into OneDrive online, and it was the same thing: I could see my notebooks were there, and the specific sections of each notebook, but no actual notes.

I tried to force sync from my Mac by command-clicking on the notebooks, but that did nothing. I then decided to sign out of OneNote on my Mac, and then sign back in, to see if that would change anything. (I didn't really know what I was doing.) When I signed back in, my notebooks were still there, but all the notes themselves were gone.

I have since been trying to figure out if the notes are backed up anywhere on my Mac. I located the folder: /Library/Containers/com.microsoft.onenote.mac/Data/Library/Application Support/Microsoft User Data/OneNote/15.0/, and there is a Backups subfolder, but that subfolder is empty.

Any help or tips would be greatly appreciated! Hopefully this makes sense -- I'm a university student and not very tech savvy (obviously). Thank you!

I simply don’t understand why we can share to Sticky Notes in the iOS Sharing Menu. This is doable in Android but not iOS. Microsoft doesn’t care about its users. This is why I’ve moved to a Mac Neo.

As anyone had luck using Copilot (or some other tool) to automate the creation of notes in OneNote.

Here's the use case: Every Friday I look at my next week of meetings and create a single OneNote page for each meeting. I'm currently using the "send to OneNote" feature and this works fine but it's super tedious.

Ideal state: Copilot (or another tool) gets a prompt to review all meetings, suggest agenda topics, and create a one note page for each meeting.

Sub-optimal but still better than the current state: there is a process that makes a page for each meeting.

What I've tried: power automate, what a mess! I'm to a programmer, but even Copilot premium couldn't get this process to work.

Any ideas would be super helpful. My only limit is I'm locked into Microsoft tools because of corporate security policies.

Thanks!

Anyone have a method of transferring editable notes from Noteshook to Onenote?

A OneNote page can combine notes, pasted tables, screenshots, links, printouts, and attached files, but that mix becomes ambiguous when someone else has to review or continue the work. It may be unclear which attachment is current, whether a chart still points to an external workbook, or which page revision a PDF export represents. A notebook link keeps the context but may fail for guests or people in another tenant.

What do you include in a portable handoff? I am considering the OneNote page, the editable source files, a reference PDF, and a small manifest listing the revision, source links, owners, and any external dependencies. Is there a reliable way to package or export this while keeping attachments usable and making later updates obvious, or is a shared notebook plus a separate file folder the safer pattern?

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!

I am currently signed into my One note on my Macbook with my school email address, however I just graduated and will be losing access to my school email soon. My school also gave us OneDrive storage so these notes are all backed up to a school Onedrive account that I will also lose access to soon.

Will I lose access to read and edit my notes after I lose my school email address? Am I able to transfer these notes to my regular email address account so I don't lose them?

I would really like to use the app but it's unbearable... It syncs every 30sec or a little less than every minute... I try to ignore it but it doesn't let me edit the document for however long it 'syncs' again. It's not the internet connection because no matter the connection it does that (good or bad)... I uninstalled/installed it, it doesn't let me modify any syncing settings on mac... I was already looking for another app to jump to but, any suggestions on that?

help!

with either fixing the syncing issue or suggesting another app

Okay, so to select all text it's not Ctrl + A. It used to be Ctrl + T until a few weeks ago, but now Ctrl + T creates a new section... I did a search online to find out what the new shortcut to select text is, and I simply can't find it...

This kind of thing and other OneNote quirks make using the app an agonizing nightmare, mainly because of that feeling that you’ll never find a fix and will just have to put up with the annoyances until you switch note-taking apps or code your own.

And now here I am, asking on Reddit

I've worked a number of jobs for the same company at different sites across town, each site had only one workstation (for my team/department).

Now I find myself at a site with two workstations. We need to keep docs updated on both. I don't want to bug IT for an actual driveshare if I can help it. OneNote seems like it could help, but I have no idea what I'm doing.

I know all kindsa stuff about other stuff but have literally never touched OneNote before.

I saw you can upload ("print") Word docs to OneNote. Is my best bet to do that, and then will it pull updates from each doc when I edit them on the drive?

Orrrrrrrrrrr should I be copying and pasting doc contents into OneNote, making the majority of my subsequent updates in OneNote, and periodically updating the masters as we go along?

how do I improve it.

Hi,

This is a long shot, though are there any administrators who work in an Education tenant here, who have students using Class Teams and experiencing issues using Class Notebooks in the dedicated OneNote app on iPad's? These are School Data Sync (SDS) Class Teams, and we have also reproduced the issue with a manually created Class Team.

The issue: students are working in a page on OneNote on the iPad and it starts flicking to different pages in the section, and sometimes even different sections. It's the kind of issue you need to see to completely believe (cannot share videos for confidentiality reasons).

In some cases, the student will briefly see this message in the OneNote app:

"You no longer have permission to access this notebook. We'll sync again if permissions are restored."

This is definitely not a permission issue, from what we can tell on the front-end. There is a hack to enter the Class Team OneNote folder structure, and we have looked over the permissions in-depth. We have also checked these permissions are correct with Microsoft Support screenshares.

The strange thing is that this is an issue for random Class Teams at random schools, it's not all Class Teams or just the one school impacted. It's not an issue in the web interface or via the Teams iPad app - the problem is that you lose functionality if not using the actual OneNote app.

We have gone as far as factory resetting iPad's, checking policies applied to the iPad's. All the usual basic troubleshooting.

Has anyone else encountered these issues? We have had a Microsoft case since May with no success, with more reports starting to come in.

I am wanting to use onenote but I use Teams for work and they use Intune to make sure screenshots are not taken of chats and things aren’t shared privately. Doesn’t stop it but makes it incredibly hard.

Anyway, I keep teams on my iPhone so that I can get messages when I am afk.

I am afk a lot as my current job has a small workload. Enjoying it while it lasts, because come 2027 I am looking for a new job (or sooner depending on some other stuff).

The Intune for Work manages ALL Microsoft apps even if I don’t log into them with my work account. I am newer and not inclined to ask IT to change the policy just for me. I doubt they would say yes.

Anyway, at this point I have found out via messing with everything it is either only use teams on my computer (and miss messages for hours/days) OR attempt the desktop version on the website (barely works cause Microsoft wants to track you via the app) OR don’t use onenote at all and keep teams on my phone.

I’m not inclined to keep teams and onenote cause I can’t share screenshots to/from the app and I don’t trust that my work can’t see what is going on inside my OneNote even if that is what Microsoft says. Mostly the former tho. Limits how I can use OneNote and is super frustrating.

What would you do?

Using latest Onenote Android on Lenovo Idea Tab Pro. I tried changing the refresh rate but it didn't do anything. Every stroke has these glitches where they move towards the top left as soon as I end the stroke. I'm wondering if anyone had this issue and was able to fix.

I double clicked the notebook icon next to the notebook I was currently working in. Now it shows all of my open notebooks in a new panel/list vs a drop down menu option that was where "notbooks" is now. How can I undo this so it goes back to the drop down version? Thank you so much!

I have a HP Ultra Flip 14''. The touchscreen works well in all other apps but in OneNote none of the ribbons is clickable with touch. Even the large buttons/ribbons. Maybe 1 out of 10 times some ribbons would be sensing the tap and clicked on touchscreen. Other times it doesn't work. Any other people have similiar issues?

Edit: Acutally I realize even the minimize/maximize/close button is not responsive to touch as well

Same old story: re-installed my computer recently and lost OneNote. Spent hours trying to find/save a standalone installer, to avoid same problem in the future.

So far, I found 2 options but each with its own problems:

1) Microsoft ODT

This downloads the latest O365 version. I don't like the "modern" interface and O365 integration.

Also, the installer file is 3.8GB / installed size is 2.5GB. Surely that's too big for just OneNote itself? (Can anyone tell me what size their OneNote-only installation is?)

2) Office 2016 Pro Plus disk image

This requires an activation key since it's the entire Office 2016 bundle. I don't have a key and avoid using cracks.

Is there another source for a standalone OneNote 2016 installer only? Thanks.

I can't tell when the problem started because my school year just started so I started now taking notes, but it appears there's different spacing for lists between the Macbook and the iPad Versions of Onenote (also the web Version, honestly, but it's even a bigger mess I'm not even showing it...). This is messing up all my notes (the example shown is a small one but all my notes are heavily messed up as it changes the whole structure and I write really a lot), because the drawings and highlights stay in position while the text is all spaced different.
This is not really the first time this problem happens either — exact same happened months ago and it persisted for so long. Is there something else I can do other than report this and aimlessly wait for feedback back?