Remember "Show tabs" setting in OneNote ribbon?

Hey guys, I'm not sure when it happened, but I can confirm that after some Office update, OneNote 2013 now does EXACTLY this by itself (on my Surface Pro 2) :D If I'm set to full screen with just tabs shown in portrait mode, it remains full screen with just tabs shown the next time I rotate to portrait mode. Same goes for when the entire ribbon is displayed, and when the side-bar is displayed.

Thanks for finally fixing this Microsoft, only took you over 2 years :/

EDIT: That's only a fix for devices which support multiple orientations, ie Tablet only PCs or 3-in-1 PCs like the Surface Pro. Laptop/Desktop only PCs (which obviously have only 1 orientation), you'll still manually need to reshow the tabs when you manually switch to full-screen mode by clicking the full-screen button. Come to think of it, it somewhat makes sense considering the name of the button.

For Tablet only PCs and 3-in-1 PCs like the Surface Pro, prior to the update, when in portrait mode (in which I take natural hand written notes on my Surface Pro 2), OneNote 2013 automatically switched to full screen mode (no side bar, no ribbon, no ribbon tabs) and never remembered your side bar nor ribbon status, despite it not being you that manually invoked full-screen. After the update now, when I change my Surface Pro's orientation, it remembers both my side bar and ribbon status when I was in that orientation! So, I could enable full-screen and the ribbon for landscape mode, and full screen and just the ribbon tabs for portrait mode, and it'll now remember the status automatically.

Added my vote on the uservoice page (thanks Alex!) and adding my name to the list here too.

Guys, I have managed to create a macro using the Microsoft Mouse and Keyboard Center. I have mapped the middle mouse button to do the following: 1) go to full screen; 2) unhide the ribbon; 3)collapse the ribbon. If you put in enough milliseconds between the commands it works great.

Please look at the print screen below.

Hope this will be of help for anyone.

A modification of the workaround from the previous post:

As I'm using OneNote on a tablet, often without a keyboard, I wanted to eliminate the need to press F12, having instead the ribbon tabs shown just after touching the usual FullScreen button in the program. This is done by the following AHK script (see the comments within):

; OneNote: show ribbon tabs when clicking fullscreen button.

; Needs the command "Hide the ribbon" to be set as

; the first item in the Quick Access Toolbar.

; The specific numerical button boundaries are valid for the standard screen of ATIV-500.

; They should be changed to the appropriate values on other screens.

#IfWinActive, ahk_class Framework::CFrame

LButton::

MouseGetPos, x, y

if (x > 1080 and x < 1125 and y > 156 and y < 200)

{

send {F11}

send !1

}

else

Send, {LButton}

return

#IfWinActive

To find the button boundaries on another screen one may use the following script to get the coordinates of the button corners:

#IfWinActive, ahk_class Framework::CFrame

LButton::

MouseGetPos, x, y

Msgbox, %x% %y%

return

#IfWinActive

Thanks Dmitry_975, I added some code to your work for Microsoft Surface pro 3.

So now it also check if the Surface is in landscape or portraite mode (using one note 2013 in touch mode):

; OneNote: show ribbon tabs when clicking fullscreen button.

; Needs the command "Hide the ribbon" to be set as

; the first item in the Quick Access Toolbar.

; The specific numerical button boundaries are valid for the standard screen of ATIV-500.

; They should be changed to the appropriate values on other screens.

#IfWinActive, ahk_class Framework::CFrame

LButton::

MouseGetPos, x, y

if (A_ScreenWidth = 2160)

{

if (x > 1763 and x < 1840 and y > 289 and y < 361)

{

send {F11}

send !1

}

else

Send, {LButton}

return

}

if (A_ScreenWidth = 1440)

{

if (x > 1043 and x < 1120 and y > 290 and y < 365)

{

send {F11}

send !1

}

else

Send, {LButton}

return

}

#IfWinActive