OneNote making my text invisible!

Anonymous
2017-03-08T20:19:19+00:00

I imagine this is some sort of bug...

OneNote in Office 365 on Windows 10 

I use OneNote for a lot of notes, including one section that is password protected. All of a sudden a few days ago, it has this very annoying glitch where the text I type is invisible.

It basically allows me to type / click check boxes, etc., but it is all invisible. As in, it creates space for the words but there is nothing there. I mostly have been using the password protected section, so I notice it there. If I close OneNote and open it back up, the previously invisible words then show up. Sometimes it lets me type regularly again, or sometimes it just makes any new text I type invisible also. 

If I press backspace, for example, the cursor moves backwards but the deleted words are still visible (until I close the program, for example).

If I switch to a non-password protected section the words are usually invisible while typing also- but if I keep typing gibberish then after a few seconds, this seems to reset and do the same thing as closing / reopening the program.

Any ideas? This is quite annoying!

Thanks!

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Anonymous
2017-03-10T02:24:31+00:00

Hello,

This issue is also occurring for me. I will type text and the cursor will move as if it is typing but the text does not appear. A short-term solution I have found is that switching to another section and then switching back to the "trouble" section then displays the text when typing.

I have tried both Quick and Full Repair.

The version is Office 365 Home Edition OneNote 2016 desktop app on Windows 10.

Help appreciated!

Thanks,

Jeff

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  1. Anonymous
    2017-04-14T18:14:29+00:00

    This is happening to me as well, just start up in the last couple of weeks. My checkboxes disappear as I mouse over them and my text is invisible. I can fix temporarily with ctrl+A and changing formatting on the page, e.g. changing all to bold and back. It's extremely annoying and it's been happening with more and more frequency. I also had the same issue as another commenter where it took a lot of creative googling just to find this thread.

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  2. Anonymous
    2017-04-13T10:44:31+00:00

    Same for me. Can't wait for Microsoft to provide a fix for this...

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  3. Anonymous
    2017-04-10T03:23:29+00:00

    I too have been having the same problem sporadically for a few weeks. I find that scrolling the page I'm on makes changes visible. Happens on 2 different machines, both Win 10 with latest updates, and O365 desktop version of OneNote.

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  4. Anonymous
    2017-04-02T11:14:03+00:00

    I am having the same issue too, started over the last 3/4 weeks.  OneNote desktop on multiple machines, multiple different notebooks.  All my workbooks are stored on OneDrive.

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