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
    2017-03-28T05:59:33+00:00

    Hi Brian,

    I did a new installation of OneNote, but the problem is still present. It is not very easy to catch the problem as it comes and goes. I worked two days without any problem and then all of a sudden it happend again. Right now it seem to occur more often on pages where more than one user writes to (The OneNote books are on an internal network path, no OneDrive or similar) . There are some users, who also use this books with an older version of OneNote (from Office 2013).

    Regards.

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  2. Anonymous
    2017-03-28T21:17:51+00:00

    You mentioned that the OneNote books are on an internal network path, can you try having OneNote book's location stored locally on the computer for isolation purposes? Let see if the issue still persists.

    Update us on the result.

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  3. Anonymous
    2017-04-02T04:00:28+00:00

    I have the suspicion that this is a definite bug and one that's probably impacting a lot more people than this thread would indicate (because it took me a bunch of creative Googling just to find this thread).  I'm also having this exact same issue and I've tried everything short of scrapping my existing OneNote notebooks and completely reinstalling Windows 10.

    Microsoft needs more eyes on this issue.  A recent update most definitely created this problem.

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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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