Questions tagged [microsoft-onenote]
OneNote is a free-form information gathering tool.
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Is it true that Microsoft OneDrive and OneNote cannot pass through VPN?
I had spent many days ping pong with the MS technical support for synchronization problems.
While they have solved the basic synching, there is still one thing I am unhappy with.
These Microsoft ...
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Automated export from Microsoft OneNote to multiple file formats
I have more than 1 GB of OneNote files. I would like to automatically export each of my over 150 notebooks to a Microsoft Word document, a single Web Page file and a PDF file.
Microsoft OneNote will ...
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Use Microsoft OneNote sharing link without a Microsoft account
I would like to share a OneNote 2013 notebook with a user who does not have (and does not want!) a Microsoft account. I can create a "Sharing Link" in the notebook's "Share Notebook" options, and ...
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How can I sync my OneNote 2013 Notebooks using my own server?
I'm a big fan of OneNote 2013 including the sync function, however I have privacy concerns using Microsoft's Skydrive cloud. Is there a way I can use the same sync comfort with my own server?
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Microsoft OneNote: setting a global page template
I am currently using Microsoft Office 2010. In OneNote, I know how to set a default page template for the current section. However, I was wondering if I could set a default page template for the ...
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OneNote without a Signing In?
I have a Microsoft Surface Pro. Pushing the top button on the pen opens up OneNote. Currently I have a LOCAL account on my Surface Pro. I am using a local account rather than a Microsoft account ...
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Un-Sharing OneNote
I had Onenote 2010 syncing to skydrive, but then I chose to "share" my onenote on a drive on my local computer, so that my wife could see it. As a consequence of sharing it, the notebook was no ...
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How to fix continuous cleanups in OneNote
When I open a new note (Win+N or via the launcher) I get the message
We're sorry. OneNote is cleaning up from the last time it was open. Please wait.
After a while a new note is opened. This ...
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Microsoft work and personal accounts same email address
Before signing up for a office 365 business account through my work, we were using personal Microsoft accounts for things like OneNote. Unfortunately now that we have made the switch to a work account ...
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Microsoft Onenote navigation pane for headings
Anyone know if onenote 2013 has the same navigation pane as you find in microsoft word?
The one that is based on the different heading styles?
Failing that, I have a page with lots of lines of text, ...
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Is there a way to modify the default size of a new side note in OneNote 2010?
I am a fan of OneNote, but there is one aspect of it that makes it less useful than it could be. When I make a new side note (i.e. by clicking the OneNote icon in the system tray or pressing ...
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Why can't I sign in to OneNote 2016 (64-bit)?
I am trying to get my computer to sign on to 64-bit OneNote 2016 on Win 7.
While the popup window shows up fine, when I input my credentials and although I get no error messages, I get another ...
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Copy & paste of text from OneNote (for Mac) to OneNote is EXTREMELY SLOW, while copying from outside remains fast
Copy & paste of even small snippets of text from WITHIN OneNote to the same or another page WITHIN OneNote is EXTREMELY SLOW.
Oddly, when copying text from OUTSIDE of OneNote, e.g. from Chrome or ...
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Incomplete selection in OneNote
When I select text in OneNote, it happens quite often that it looks like a part of the text hasn't been selected, like in this screen shot:
As you notice, the text If you select t has no grey ...
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OneNote for Windows 10: moving a notebook from one account (personal) to another (business)
I have two OneNote for Windows 10 accounts. One appears to be business, the other personal. In the beginning I stored business-related files in my personal account (out of ignorance). Now I want ...
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Office 365 .exe equivalent?
In Office 365, is there an equivalent of the .exe files used by office?
Here's why:
My company just migrated me to Office 365. Unfortunately this breaks some automation that I used prior to the ...
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Is there a way to get the OneNote for Windows 10 search results in the Windows 10 start menu?
Microsoft has deprecated the OneNote desktop app in favor of OneNote for Windows 10.
I'd love to tap the Win key and search through my files and OneNote notes.
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OneNote "Waiting for update"
One of my OneNote notebooks keeps saying Waiting for update, while all the others work fine. This problematic one is indeed the notebook with the largest content. Can I ask how to remove this error ...
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Is there a grep equivalent in OneNote?
grep prints lines on the terminal matching a given pattern. In OneNote, Ctrl+E
is how you do global search in OneNote. However, when you enter text in the search box, it shows you the list of notes ...
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Batch import a folder structure of PDFs into Onenote
I have a folder structure containing PDFs that I'd like to import into OneNote. I'm aware of hacks that let me import a bunch of PDFs at a time, but they all go into the same notebook/section. Are ...
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Cannot convert OneNote 2007 notebooks to new format
I'm moving from OneNote 2010 to Office 365 and OneNote 2016.
Some of my older notebooks are in OneNote's 2007 format, and are read-only, as shown in OneNote 2016's Window title:
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How to disable or change OneNote 2016 shortcut
I would like to disable ALT+N shortcut in OneNote 2016.
[RIGHT ALT] + [n] is special character in polish and I am using it often.
I didn't notice this issue in OneNote 2010.
Does anyone know ...
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Changing Microsoft OneNote 2013 Proofing Language
I have a collection of MS OneNote sections that spell check in English US. All I want to do is change this - globally - to English UK.
If I select a section, and check the Proofing Language - it ...
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Search local OneNote and Web at the same time?
Is there a method to do a search in one place (browser or desktop) that can show me combined results for my local OneNote 2010 as well as do web results? For example, I can see my local OneNote hits ...
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How to assign keyboard shortcuts for very specific commands in OneNote 2013?
How could I assign a keyboard shortcut for very specific commands in OneNote 2013?
For example:
I need to assign a keyboard shortcut for a specific text style [(Bold)+(Underline)+(FontSize:13)+(Color:...
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OneNote 2013 is not showing math equations. The variables show up as boxes
So I have installed OneNote 2013 and the Mathematics add-on for OneNote and Word. Yet when I try to install an equation in OneNote (alt + +) and type in any variables all that I get is a box, implying ...
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How to translate old OneNote Links so they work with OneNote 2013
I have many OneNote links in OneNote pages as well as from external documents such as mindmap files to pages in OneNote 2007. I recently converted my notebooks to the latest oneNote format so I can ...
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How do I align paragraph text so that it becomes shorter but WIDER?
If I copy text from a PDF file or a website that has a narrow width margin, those margin settings are preserved when pasted into Word or Onenote. This is annoying because many websites and PDF's have ...
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How to interactively embed web page into PowerPoint or OneNote documents?
Is it possible to embed a webpage interactively into Microsoft Office Powerpoint presentation and into OneNote page?
By interactively I mean:
I enter URL which has to be loaded.
I can navigate in ...
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Take picture into OneNote from Microsoft LifeCam
I have MS LifeCam but can't take snapshot from it into MS OneNote program. Cameras and scanners button does not allow to acquire from this camera.
Is it possible to use this camera to capture still ...
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When does OneNote delete its page history?
When I show the page history for a page in my OneNote notebook, I see the following information bar above old versions:
This worries me; specifically the bit that says "It will be deleted over time". ...
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OneNote Layout formatting
Is there any way to format a OneNote Page or do I have to manually move each item? I have several items on a page overlapping each other in Several notebooks.
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Extract Saved Word Document inside OneNote Notebook on OneDrive
In Microsoft Office 2013, saving documents on SkyOneDrive is fully integrated into Word. On a computer using Word 2013, I wrote a document and saved it into a folder in my OneDrive.
When I went to a ...
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OneNote Drawing problems
I'm using OneNote and used the pen tool then but when I change sections, my drawing carried over, like the drawing exists in a layer above the notebook and I can't use the eraser tool:
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Signing OneNote for Windows into second account breaks the first one
In OneNote for Windows (Office365) I signed into 2 work accounts on different domains (let's call them A and B).
Now OneNote is complaining about "Account Error" on account A but when I ...
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Why can't I share (personal 365) OneDrive files with people signed into a work account?
I am trying to share files (and OneNote's) from my personal (Office 365) OneDrive account. If the recipient isn't signed in at all, it works fine. If the recipient is signed into a personal Microsoft ...
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How to make OneNote for Windows 10 / Android auto sync more frequently
I'm using One Note in 2 devices:
OneNote for Windows 10 Version 16001.14326 on Windows 11 PC
Microsoft OneNote for Android on a Samsung Galaxy S9 Version 16.0.15726 (updated Nov 8, 2022)
In the ...
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Why is "use pen as pointer" not working in OneNote?
I have Microsoft 365 and I use a Wacom tablet with a stylus to take notes on my computer. The cursor when using the pen on OneNote is very small and I cannot locate it so I use the "pen as ...
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How to prevent dark mode from changing OneNote pen color on PDFs?
In OneNote for Office 365, system-wide dark mode generally causes pen colors to change to their 'dark' counterparts, most notably black to white.
However, for annotations on embedded PDFs, this is ...
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How to take notes that expedite reverse search?
I write a diary entry every day and list what I have learned that day there but I often remember I once writing something related to a certain topic but cannot find that entry by keyword searching in ...
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Microsoft Onenote collapse all sections
When I open a Onenote App on windows 10, 13 sections are opened and remaining sessions are collapsed. I would like all of them to be closed /collapsed except the one I am working on. So only one open ...
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How to change the mouse cursur of OneNote 2010?
I saw in Onenote 2010 that the pointer is not a dot but a pencil/pen. I tried to check how to change the shape of it but i couldn't.
How can I change the cursor?
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How to remove onenote 2016 all pages tags?
I have hundreds tags and I'd like to remove them bulkly , how can I do in onenote 2016?
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disable all auto-corrections, mistyping correction, and spellchecking in all microsoft applications
Microsoft applications have by default a lot of auto-corrections, spellchecking, etc enabled. Those are sometimes difficult to find (as it changes with each versions, and it is sometimes hidden behind ...
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Multiple clipboard hotkeys within OneNote
In OneNote, I can copy my pen's drawings and repaste it in. When repasted in, the stroke properties are maintained, so I can erase and edit whatever I need.
This is very helpful when writing math ...
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How to make onenote translate the zotero app url as a hyperlink rather than plaintext
I use onenote for note taking and zotero for reference management, so I usually make a hyper link in onenote pages with zotero APP URI for rapid redirection to the target item in zotero. Zotero APP ...
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MS OneNote on Mac: how to print landscape?
I would love to print a page of a notebook in landscape, as when I write in it with iPad pen it always breaks the page when I export it as PDF or print it. Do you guys know how to do so?
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Get "Add New Page to Onenote" icon in Start Menu of Windows 10
3 weeks ago I had a "Add New Page" icon in my "live tile" area of my start menu on Windows 10 Home. When I clicked it, it would open OneNote (the Windows App, not the Office "full" version) and create ...
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Microsoft products Link to open in notepad not default
Is it possible to create a link in any Microsoft product (specifically OneNote, but I would assume that it would be the same for all Microsoft products) so that the item I want to open will open in a ...
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Windows 10 with Pen Ctrl or Ctrl + Win Tooltip stuck
I'm using OneNote during the meeting and am a bit frustrated with this strange behavior of my tablet: When I place my palm on the screen to start writing, there is a 30-40 % chance that the pen ...
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