Import Powerpoint into Onenote and all slides end up under same note.

Anonymous
2014-02-27T21:20:51+00:00

I am using Onenote and Powerpoint 2013.

I have selected under Advanced Options to split long print outs into individual notes in OneNote.  This was working fine when i dragged PowerPoint presentations into onenote.  The slides would get put into individual notes as i would expect as i had this option selected.

All of a sudden today, i dragged a powerpoint into onenote, and the slides all get lumped into one note.  119 slides all under the same note.  I want them to go into individual notes as it did before.  I went to options, advanced, turned the Printouts insert long printouts on multiple pages, off then tried again, then on and tried again, i tried rebooting, everything.  It always comes back the same.  No matter what i select, when i drag powerpoint into Onenote, it ends up all on the same page.  I tried going to Powerpoint and selecting print to Onenote.  I tried every option.  Still same result, all slides end up in same page in onenote.  What happened?

Any help would be appreciated.

Dave

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  1. Anonymous
    2014-03-15T19:29:40+00:00

    Thanks for the feedback some of this was a change, in SP1, from how things worked earlier to address feedback we had.  A lot of customers who used OneNote were used to printouts being on a single page and a new feature in OneNote 2013 would split it across multiple pages if the document were like 5 pages I think.  If less than 5 then it went to a single page, if more it prompted.

    A lot of people complained about this and we listened to people's feedback and we told them about how they could not see this dialog.  We tried to fix this up, but it looks like something might have broke.  We are looking into it.  Thanks for alerting us to this!

    Having all the pages of the document in one single page inside OneNote is something that belong to older version of OneNote, with OneNote 2013 this wasn't the default option. Anyway I think that let the user choose whatever method prefers is the best way ( and this could be easily done inside advanced option ) because probably if you use OneNote without a pen imput device it's better to have all pages toghether but for who, like me, uses OneNote with the Surface Pro and the pen to write notes on top of PDF, having multiple pages is fundamental. Also it's even more important considering how bad the "Reader" metro app works with the pen ( actually I have an open thread regarding this but now one from Microsoft have responded...)

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-03-12T07:36:20+00:00

    Thanks for the feedback some of this was a change, in SP1, from how things worked earlier to address feedback we had.  A lot of customers who used OneNote were used to printouts being on a single page and a new feature in OneNote 2013 would split it across multiple pages if the document were like 5 pages I think.  If less than 5 then it went to a single page, if more it prompted.

    A lot of people complained about this and we listened to people's feedback and we told them about how they could not see this dialog.  We tried to fix this up, but it looks like something might have broke.  We are looking into it.  Thanks for alerting us to this!

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-03-05T21:00:14+00:00

    I re-installed SP1 (version number now showing 15.0.4569.1506) and the issue has returned.

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  4. Anonymous
    2014-03-04T22:08:15+00:00

    15.0.4420.1017 is the version number after uninstalling SP1

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  5. Anonymous
    2014-03-04T17:12:47+00:00

    Hello,

    Let us check if Office 365/2013 Service pack is installed on the computer.

    You may refer to the section ‘How to tell if you have SP1 installed' in the following article and see if it helps:

    http://blogs.technet.com/b/office_sustained_engineering/archive/2014/02/25/announcing-the-release-of-service-pack-1-for-office-2013-and-sharepoint-2013.aspx

    Do get back to us with the results so that we may assist you further.

    Thank you

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