How to move onenote sections back to top of notebook?

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I have found that the default onenote view is to have sections run along the top of the notebook instead of on the right (vertical view). I prefer to have my sections run along the top in the default view, but somehow, my view changed where all my sections are in a left aligned vertical view. I cannot figure out how to revert back to where all the section tabs are back along the top of each notebook. Please show me how. I cannot find this info anywhere in Microsoft support. Please note, this screenshot was taken while Office Theme = Colorful and while the "Enable Experimental Features" box was checked.

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Hi Nick. I'm glad to hear you're an actual MicroSoft engineer. I hope it is an engineer specifically for the OneNote product. I want to call B.S. on your "user testing". Switching over without the option of giving your end users a choice of layout was plain stupid and short-sighted on the part of MicroSoft. I've been using OneNote for just over a year despite being an avid Apple products user. I did this on the advice of two colleagues who use Onenote regularly, and who actually work for Microsoft (as employees, not vendors). Both of them state that they use tabs across the top and they believe it is only the Apple version that was changed permanently. They stated they would revert to version 15.33 if the engineering team forced this changed upon the software! Also, why don't you take a moment to read the feedback that you've been receiving about this forced change? Not just within the VOTE page (which has risen to 370), but throughout all the tickets that have been submitted asking how to restore this, as well as posts and comments made within the Microsoft online community. The 370 votes posted are only a small percentage of dissent that's out there. Nick, take your head out of the sand. Really. You can add this as an option for those who prefer tabs on the left... But why force it? Stupid. Plain stupid.

I have reverted back to version 15.33 using Apple's time machine. If anyone reading this wants to know how to fix this issue, the answer is revert back to version 15.33. If you don' have Time Machine, and you need an alternative means to do so, please post a message here and I will help you with this.

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Hey Santiago! I'm an engineer on the OneNote team.

To bring consistency across the OneNote platforms we've moved the section selection to the left side of the screen. Through user testing we've determined that (while the migration can be confusing) users find the updated experience to be more intuitive given our hierarchy structure (Notebook => Section => Page).

You're welcome to leave feedback for this change on UserVoice :)

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2019-09-09T22:54:55+00:00

You are making it impossible for me to do my job and work without becoming more and more steps to accomplish what was once a single click, now takes 12-15 clicks to navigate. Windows 10 with a start menu that can't be seen in 1-3 clicks, I have to scroll 5 -10 screens to the right to find the one icon I need to click on or worse, I need to type in the name of the app in a search and wait 2-3 seconds as I backspace and retype due to errors when before it was 1 click away on the start menu. Everything takes longer in windows 10 then it did in windows 7. No exceptions. You offer not solutions and you don't care either. That's is what I call a monopoly. Monopolys are bad!

I have wasted 3 hours trying to get my damn tabs on the top in one note for nothing. Thanks, Microsoft. Thanks for nothing! Once again you have sucked the very life out of me and for no purpose. It benefited you nothing that I waste my 3 hours. It's 3 hours of my life gone that I will never have again. If you can tell me how I can stay current with your versions and still have the **** tabs on the top of one-note then tell me but I will be dammed if I will continue to use your software or tell my 400 users to touch it when this is how you treat the people you serve. Damn!

Lose-Lose Scenario! That's what Microsoft has turned into. I won't get any notice of someone answering me either will I?

just like world governments. They make decisions that **** everyone up and destroy lives and then ignore you and deny all responsibility.
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2019-09-09T22:47:23+00:00

This is not acceptable.

Question:

How to move OneNote sections back to the top of the notebook?

Answer:

You can't because we changed it. No good reason, nothing that can possibly not cost you more time and effort. Because we can!

Sarcastic Response: Thanks, Microsoft

How can you do things like this and expect people not to get ticked off when you affect their lives negatively!

You have cost me almost 4 hours today that i did not have to waste. I accomplished nothing because of this change in 365 OneNote.

Not happy. Not going to be happy at home or tomorrow or next week because of this continues to change for the worse. Computers used to save time. Now they take more time than they give back. I need to hire 3 people just to do the BS work that MS makes me do extra that I did not have to do at all with windows 7 and Office 2016. You guys really really missed the boat on our innovation and it's why Apple is gaining market share.

Innovative means knowing how many clicks it takes to do task A for user X and if it takes 100 clicks or keypresses and clicks and you can make it easier by making it take 3 clicks, you have added value. Microsoft is not good at this because they are programer centric instead of truely understanding their customers and what they do and how they work.
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2019-08-31T13:09:42+00:00

I found the links to the question on "UserVoices" where we can vote on this issue. The Apple thread has been going since 2016; the Windows thread since April 2019. The Windows thread, of course, has significantly fewer votes, so I voted on both threads and posted my comment to each. This would have been quite a helpful thing for the engineers from the OneNote Team to have posted to this thread.

For Windows users:

VOTE: Windows One Note Navigation

For Apple users:

VOTE: Apple One Note Navigation
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