OneNote making my text invisible!

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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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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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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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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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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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2017-04-17T02:29:44+00:00

I experience the same issue and do not use password-protected OneNotes. When I try to highlight text with my mouse, the hightlight also does not appear.

Windows 10 x64

Office 365 Pro Plus 2016 x64 (reinstalled from x86 and the problem still persists)

OneNote on the desktop (not in web)

Lenovo Carbon X1, Intel Core i7

The same workaround, to click a different tab then click back, works for me.

Microsoft, please fix this. It sounds like we all have the same issue and are in your core user group.. we run Windows, use the latest version of Office, and many of us have 365 accounts.

Thanks!
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