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Prevent Windows 10 from installing OneNote printer

OneNote printer is a nightmare for me. I removed it from Printers countless of times. It always comes back. Sometimes as a default printer, sometimes as a regular one. How can I get rid of it once and ...
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Is there a keyboard shortcut to select the entire current line in Notepad++?

Microsoft OneNote has a handy shortcut (Ctrl+A) that I use all the time to select an entire line.  And if you click it a second time it selects the entire document. I really would like to use Ctrl+A ...
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How to disable or change the Windows+S hotkey in OneNote

I've been using some software for a while that uses Win+S and I've gotten used to it. I've just recently started using OneNote 2010 and I find that it's hijacked the Win+S hotkey for doing screen ...
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Downloading a local copy of One Note from Office 365 Online

I have a One Note notebook saved through Office 365 Online. I would like to download a local copy but am having trouble. I've tried going to One Drive and downloading it through there, but it ...
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Suppress OneNote adding itself to startup items

I use the MS Office OneNote app from time to time, but not daily. However, every time I use it, it sticks itself back into the Windows startup items, and helps itself to a chunk of RAM and boot time. ...
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How can I export all OneNote pages to individual markdown files?

I am moving to Linux and the last hurdle is to get out of OneNote. I'd like to export all of my notebooks so that every page goes to an individual markdown file. I've tried many things—this thread ...
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Move OneNote file to another OneDrive account

Is it possible to move a OneNote notebook from one OneDrive account to another? I have one very large notebook (several thousand pages) and it is going to be tedious manually copying. I no longer ...
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How can I change the language of a OneNote section (or page/notebook)

I have a OneNote section in a notebook named "Personal" and some pages in this section. I can't change the section (or page or notebook) language. I tried changing the Office default language from the ...
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Can I create OneNote links that open in the desktop app instead of the web app?

I'm trying to create hyperlinks to my most frequently used OneNote notebooks and notes. It's easy to create the links (right-click a notebook/note and click "Copy Link to Notebook/Note"). But when I ...
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Can't sign in to Office and OneNote can't connect to SkyDrive in Windows 8.1

The OneNote issue Since I installed Windows 8.1 I can't open my OneNote notebooks stored on SkyDrive with OneNote 2013. When I try to open a notebook in OneNote, I get the following error: We can'...
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Shortcut to collapse a paragraph/outline in OneNote?

This describes a way to collapse outlines with the mouse. Is this possible to do with keyboard only?
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Keyboard shortcut to change font colour on onenote 2013?

Is there a way to change the colour of the font in onenote using a keyboard shortcut? (I want it to turn both highlighted font into a different colour and such that if i start to type it will change ...
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Good Digital Pen that Integrates with Microsoft OneNote

Does anyone know of a good digital pen product (like the Logitech IO2) that: Can cleanly integrate with Microsoft OneNote Works with regular paper (not expensive DPS paper) Works with Windows 7 - ...
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Any ways to add new (edit) shortucts in OneNote 2010?

I can't find a way to add a customized keyboard shortcut in OneNote 2010. In particular, I want to change the default "ALT + =" shortcut, which adds a new equation. (the key combination doesn't work ...
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Type calligraphic letters in Microsoft Office Equation Editor

Is there a command in Microsoft Word or OneNote Equation Editor, analogous to LaTeX \mathcal, which makes a letter calligraphic? I could copy-paste the Unicode script characters from https://en....
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How to search for literal asterisk in OneNote

I have a specific string which I need to search for in in onenote 2013. The problem is that the string contains several asterisk *** characters. By default, OneNote treats * as a wildcard in searches, ...
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MS OneNote on Mac OSX: Is it possible to export entire notebook to PDF?

The MS instructions I found for exporting an entire notebook to a PDF don't seem to apply on the Mac OSX version. Is there a way to do this on Mac OSX?
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pen cursor in OneNote can be hard to see when using tablet peripheral

When the pen tool is selected, it happens very often that an interval after doing some inking, I cannot see where the cursor was/is, since it's just so tiny. This is difficult even if I shake the ...
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Edit restriction in Microsoft Onenote

I have multiple notebooks shared within my team. However, I want one of the notebook/page, to be restricted. Other team members should not have the access the edit a specified notebook/page. They ...
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How to paste from Putty to OneNote with colors?

Putty has an option to copy to clipboard in RTF format. This means console colors preserved in pasted text. This works ok in MS Word, but does not work in Microsoft OneNote. Why? Is it possible to ...
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How do you open a second window in OneNote 2019 / Windows 10?

I've been using OneNote 2016 on my desktop, and OneNote 2019 on my laptop. There are many differences between versions one of which is in OneNote 2016, if I open a new instance of the program I'll ...
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How to set OneNote link-to-page Shortcut to open in a new window (not an existing one)?

I've OneNote link-to-page Shortcut files like these: What I'm looking for is when I open any of these shortcuts, the page will be opened in a new window (not an existing one). OS: Windows 10 | Office:...
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Limit to Number of attached files in OneNote

I know there is a default cache size for attachments, but is there a limit to the NUMBER of file attachments you can put in a OneNote notebook? I'm looking for case examples from heavy OneNote ...
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MS OneNote screen capture stopped working

With MS OneNote installed, I could use the Windows + s key-combo to launch the screen capture utility. But it all of a sudden stopped working. According to this post, that "sometimes happens" and can ...
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Sharing OneNote 2010? Desktop and Laptop and the Web(Skydrive)?

I love Onenote and have 2010. I've been able to sync Onenote on my laptop and skydrive, but would like to add a desktop with the onenote client to to sync with as well (not use web). Onenote will ...
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How to scroll the list of notes in OneNote with mouse wheel on Windows 7?

Typically, when you move the cursor inside a list with a scrollbar, the mouse wheel would scroll that list. In OneNote, however, I can only scroll the note page itself, when the cursor is definitely ...
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Windows 10 Sticky Notes App sync issues

We have an active directory environment. This is synced to Azure. We also have office 365 licenses assigned to several users. However, when signing in to the sticky notes app we receive an error. ...
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