Export a Wiki to a OneNote notebook instructions don't work

Anonymous
2023-02-13T12:22:24+00:00

Export a Wiki to a OneNote notebook says,

Export a Wiki to OneNote - In Teams, go to the standard channel whose Wiki you want to export. - On the wiki banner, select Get details. Select Export to Notes, and then select Finish.

What is the wiki banner?

Where do you find Get details?

Where do you Select Export to Notes?

I have access to Teams that have had Wiki pages for ages and I have added new Wiki pages to my test team, created today. "Get details", and, "Select Export to Notes", don't appear anywhere

Any ideas?

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Anonymous
2023-02-20T20:03:16+00:00

Hello Guy,

The explanation why some are not seeing any of that which Microsoft is suggesting is simply because it is not available for everyone just YET. They recently started rolling this out, and it won't be available for everyone everywhere at the same time!

To be fair, the instructions page does mention "Coming soon".

This is what the "banner" will look like:

So, it will be a banner below the menu bar with a tannish background color and a button on the righthand side reading "Get details".

And here's a screenshot of what the export tool will look like, with the "Export to Notes" button:

As depicted in these two steps in Microsoft's instructions:

  1. In Teams, go to the standard channel whose Wiki you want to export.
  2. On thewikibanner, selectGet details*. SelectExport to Notes, and then selectFinish.*

Also, the message in the Message Center (of the Microsoft 365 Admin Center) contains this subtle hint at the end:

"We urge users to export their channel wikis to OneNote once it is available."

Hope this helps.

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  1. Anonymous
    2023-02-14T17:39:07+00:00

    Hi Guy,

    Hope you are doing well and I'm sorry to hear that my previous response did not resolve the issue.

    In that case, it's possible that the "Export to Notes" option is not available in your organization or has been disabled. As an alternative, you can try copying and pasting the content from your Teams Wiki into a new OneNote notebook.

    To do this, open your Teams Wiki and navigate to the page you want to copy. Select the content on the page and press Ctrl+C (Windows) or Command+C (Mac) to copy it. Then, open a new OneNote notebook, create a new page, and press Ctrl+V (Windows) or Command+V (Mac) to paste the content. Repeat this process for each page of your Wiki.

    Please note that this method may not preserve the formatting and links of the original Wiki content. If you have a large amount of content, this method may also be time-consuming. In that case, you may want to consider using a third-party tool or service to export your Wiki to OneNote.

    Hope I could help you.

    Best regards,

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-02-14T20:32:31+00:00

    Hi Guy

    I have a backup plan in case the Microsoft-supplied wizard doesn't work for us.

    You can download from a Standard channel Wiki page from SharePoint: (backup if we can't get hyperlinks to export to OneNote. Recommend only do when nothing else will be added or edited in Wiki in Teams)

    • Open the Teams site (Demo Team for Rj)
    • Take note of the Wiki pages that have  hyperlinks in it
    • Click on General channel for now
    • Click on the ellipsis top-right > Open in SharePoint
    • Click on Site contents in the left panel > Teams Wiki Data in the first column > General folder
    • Click next to one of the Wiki pages that you noted had hyperlinks in it which places a tick in a circle next to it
    • Click on the down arrow next to  Word Open on the top ribbon. Select Open in app
    • Content will be copied to a Word file and the Word file will open on screen
    • You will notice when you hover over hyperlinks that the "h" is missing from "https" even though this is included in the hyperlink on the Wiki page
    • Recommendation is to:
      1. highlight the text containing the hyperlink
      2. Right-click, edit hyperlink
      3. Ctrl A, Ctrl C
      4. Click on Remove Link button
      5. Click in the Address box and Ctrl V to paste. Then add the "h" at the beginning (it doesn't work if you add the "h" at step 2)
      6. OK
      7. Save as
      8. Change the file type from Single File Web page to Word Document

    Download content from a Teams Private Channel's Wiki:

    • Open the Teams site (Teams Demo for training purposes for Rj)
    • Take note of the Wiki pages that have hyperlinks in it
    • Click on the private channel (private channels have their own SharePoint site)
    • Click on the ellipsis top-right > Open in SharePoint
    • Click on Site contents in the left panel >
    • Click on Site contents in the left panel > Teams Wiki Data in the first column
    • Click on the name of the private channel to open the folder

    The rest of the instructions are the same as above for Standard channels.

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-02-15T12:58:45+00:00

    Thank you for your help

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-02-20T20:12:50+00:00

    Hello Rune C Foyn

    Do you need to bring the related OneNote Notebook into Teams as a tab before you do the export? Or, does the export Wizard do that for you? Thank you.

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