How do I change what section in a Teams Notebook is the default for showing up first when I open the Notebook?

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How do I change what section in a Teams Notebook is the default for showing up first when I open the Notebook?

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Whenever I click on the Notebook tab in one of my Teams, it always opens to the same section and page, even if I was last in a different section and page. The section it opens to it a section that isn't very useful, so I'd like to default it to opening to a more important section. How can I do that?

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Answer 1

If I recall correctly, the behavior in Teams at the end of 2023 was that OneNote channels would remember the last page accessed. The current behavior seems to be to remember the page that was selected when the channel was created. I now can have two OneNote channels which default to different pages.

I haven't found any way to change the default page on a channel (which is what I was looking for when I found this discussion). It appears that you have to create a new OneNote channel and delete the old one if you want to change the default page.

Answer 2

I had a similar issue. I wanted a startup page for the Notes section of a channel I created. It was not the first page I created but it was the first page in order. The Notes tab was opening with the first page I created. None of my teammates had the issue, for them it always opened on the first page in order. I did however manage to make the first page in order my startup page.

The solution for me was to uninstall Teams and reinstall it. not really a proper solution but my guess is it is storing which is the default page in a cache somewhere and uninstalling Teams and reinstalling it seems to clear that default page from the cache.

It would be really handy if there was an option in the right click menu on a page to "Set as Default"

Answer 3

Also have this issue. The notebook by default has pages in chronological order going down the page. The weakness here is that it seems like you'd have to manually reverse that to keep the latest page current.

And....just tested it. Even if you reverse the order, it still only defaults to that one page.

Answer 4

Anonymous

Is there a way to have the Navigation option having Sections and Pages showing on default?

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Answer 5

I have a similar issue but only for one of the Teams (app and web based) it defaults view back to particular section and page instead of the last viewed.
All my other teams on the same account open onenote to last viewed.
Why is this one in particular causing problems

On onenote online shows the last one viewed only within Teams it doesn't, there are roughly 6 members and it happens for all of them with this one Teams Note