Disappearing Ink problem in OneNote 2016 + Surface Pro 3

Anonymous
2015-09-23T06:58:32+00:00

Hi,

I just upgraded to Office 2016 via the Office 365 subscription. Working on a Surface Pro 3 and Windows 10. I am mostly using OneNote 2016 to take handwritten notes using the Surface Pen.

The disappearing ink issue, (that was a problem in the OneNote 2013 edition, until it was fixed), seems to be back: parts of written stuff disappear. I was writing in OneNote 2016, and out of nowhere, parts of what I had written earlier disappeared. Though the issue is not as severe as it was earlier, when the disappearing was very frequent.

This needs to be fixed ASAP, it renders OneNote not very useful for note-taking!

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  1. Anonymous
    2015-10-26T10:13:10+00:00

    Hi guys 

    Whilst you obviously trying to sort this out please do not simply assume that the problem can be resolved by simply turning hand writing recognition off. 

    In my experience it is more fundamental than that. I find graphic objects arbitrarily moving on the page - overlapping objects suddenly become 'hidden' when drawing and other objects simply disappearing when I have taken much time to create them!

    There seems to be no rational explanation for this.  It really is a very poor application and like others have said - from one of the worlds leading software houses it should not be so bug- ridden. In my view it is pathetic.

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-10-26T09:25:36+00:00

    Thank you for working on the bug. It's end of October now and I'm really frustrated the bug is still there. I'm a teacher and using onenote so that students can go home and look at the notes from class. But my handwriting gets lost partially just minutes after I made them. this really makes Onenote useless.

    Please come up with a fix soon!

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-10-24T13:53:32+00:00

    Microsoft team:

    I have the same problem with OneNote 2016 that others are describing.  Turning off handwriting recognition does solve the problem.

    However, it may interest you that I have experienced a similar problem with Word 2016.  I was working on a document that I had saved to my OneDrive folder, and text that I had typed simply disappeared.  I had to rewrite portions of this document several times before I realized that it must be a syncing problem and saved the document to a local folder.

    Thanks,

    Marcia

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  4. Anonymous
    2015-10-21T08:01:56+00:00

    Thank you RakeshV I will try it. BTW I have same configuration as MattBacon:

    Windows 10

    Surface Pro 3

    One Note 2016

    AS MAVIS is writing about Microsoft will to have better user experience, I must laugh because non of this happen in Apple world and this is why Apple users are so happy to use their product. I used Apple product long time before I switched to Surface Pro 3 because of possibility to write on it. So if you are talking about user experience, you must work on testing in more detailed or you will lose customers, as somebody wrote before

    How long it is this bug is described?

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  5. Anonymous
    2015-10-21T04:33:25+00:00

    The option is present in File> Options> Advanced in the Pen section (Uncheck Enable Handwriting Recognition).

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