Remember "Show tabs" setting in OneNote ribbon?

Here, here! I'm chiming in, and praying Microsoft will consider a modification to this in a future update or service pack.

I frequently switch between full-screen and normal viewing modes. And having to press <CTRL>-<Shift>-F1 every single time is a horrendous UI decision. Or when using my convertible laptop in tablet mode, having to make three difficult edge clicks with the Wacom stylus/digitizer is just as trying.

If an option to permanently show the tabs in full-screen mode can be realized, I will be highly appreciative!

To the OneNote design team: In advance, thank you for your consideration. ;)

MS please realize that this will make it much easier to use - I put the most frequently used functions in the QAT then set the ribbon to only show tabs - very little space used, quick access to the need tools - but when I switch vertical to go to full screen, the ribbon disappears - even if I set it to display tabs.  Very frustrating. Please allow it to remeber  the setting of tabs only when turning vertical

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 for this.  I'm surprised Mircosoft doesn't have native support for this.  Your script does what it is supposed to, though then it makes my touch scrolling unbearably slow.  I'm using a dell venue pro 11 if that matters.  Any ideas on how to fix this?

I have a question regarding permanently showing the ribbon tabs in full screen mode. In Office 2013, going into full screen mode means that everything is hidden, except for a very short horizontal bar across the top of the screen. To access anything on the ribbon, I have to click on this bar to show the ribbon first. If I want to pin the ribbon so that tabs are visible at all times in full screen mode, I have to click on this bar, click a menu button near the minimize button (also hidden in full screen), and then click Show Tabs. However, OneNote does not remember this setting. Thus, every time I exit full screen mode or restart OneNote and then reenter full screen mode, I have to re-pin the ribbon again.

How do I get OneNote to remember this setting permanently? It worked in OneNote 2010.

Thanks!

I’m new to OneNote and this problem is already my number one complaint about it. However, for each notebook one can create a permanent workaround even in the limited Mac version (which I am using). This workaround for the problem creates a permanent Table of Contents in your document that you can use in place of the complete list of tabs we all wish was available in OneNote 2013. You can create a new section where you would like to have access to all your section tabs

• call it “Table of Contents” if you like - and move it so that it’s your first tab. Go to each section in your notebook one by one, then click Notebooks —> Sections —> Copy Link to Section. Go back to your Table of Contents (TOC) section, right click and choose Paste. This will paste a link to your section that is automatically named for your section. If you really want to make it easy to move around your document, paste a link to the TOC at the top of each of your sections so that you can return to it without scrolling through the tabs. Now you can see all your section tabs at once and get anywhere in your document with a few clicks and no scrolling. You can use the time you save to beg Microsoft for a less silly solution to the problem.