Unfortunately, I too became obsessed with how it was forcing me to change how all my notes were to be taken, and yes right before finals exams. This sucked because for the longest time I didn't realize this was an update issue, as I'm sure many frustrated
students are as well. Last night consisted of showing up at the library, popping on to Microsoft support chat (thinking this was a result of some change I may have accidently made to the "send to onenote" printer driver itself) and was connected to the biggest
joke of a support representative I have ever worked with, who proceeded to take control of my desktop, uninstall and reinstall office. When that didn't work, his next solution was to: uninstall and reinstall office. I know this surprises everyone but that
didn't fix the issue either (at this point its been a solid 3 hrs that should have been spent studying, but foolish me I still had faith in the poor lad who could barely navigate the menus in onenote). I asked towards the end of the second reinstall what other
solutions he would try, at which point he said I had 2 final options (get this everybody):
"
9:55
PM Kyle: is there any properties of the printer driver itself that can be
tested?
9:56
PM Amor : have you seen this settings?
9:56
PM Kyle: paper size? yes, I have seen the settings to adjust paper size.
9:56
PM Amor : ok last resort, two things....
9:57
PM Amor : you may visit the following web site or reinstall office 365 for this
matter
9:57
PM Amor : http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/onenote-help/training-courses-for-onenote-2013-HA104032124.aspx
9:57
PM Amor : that is the website that you should visit first ok?
9:58
PM Amor : reinstallation is just the last resort ok kyle?
"
Um, was that serious!? Three attempts at reinstallation and a link to some beginner courses on onenote. He then proceeds to ask me if there's anything else he could assist me with. Please no.
Sorry had to vent a little bit there.
But anyway, the over 50 pages and making sure that box is checked in advanced options works best as a temporary work around. For power points this is easy. For pdfs though, I found a pretty simple way about doing this same process: combine a couple pdf note
sets into one longer than 50 (for me in my classes its about 2-3 lectures) and then send to onenote and proceed to divide and conquer from there. Found an online combiner that's free and at least at this point hasn't stopped my computer dead in its tracks.
I suggest gathering up all you notes before classes in the morning and putting them all into one pdf then importing to onenote (as long as your over 50 pages your good, so keep that one long pdf lecture as a backup if you only have 10 or so pages of notes,
just throw that on the end and delete after you get it into onenote)
http://www.pdfcombine.com/
Enjoy and hope this helps anyone OCD like me