How to move onenote sections back to top of notebook?

Anonymous
2017-05-26T06:50:42+00:00

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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Anonymous
2017-05-27T19:38:21+00:00

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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Anonymous
2017-05-27T05:41:55+00:00

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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  1. Anonymous
    2019-01-07T20:05:21+00:00

    Hi there -

    How do you return to the view of the tabs on the top of the page? Can't seem to find it in View options.

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  2. Anonymous
    2019-01-07T20:18:03+00:00

    Hi there -

    How do you return to the view of the tabs on the top of the page? Can't seem to find it in View options.

    Hi JoCook1. If you read a few posts from this thread, you will find that this is not possible. This is what has angered so many of the users of OneNote. The latest version that had (on Apple) that allowed you to keep tabs across the top was version 15.33. Unfortunately, the only "work-around" is to back-date the version you currently have. If this is the route you choose to take, then the easiest way to do this would be via Apple's Time Machine. 

    You could let MicroSoft know why voicing your opinion here, and by voting the option back by clicking this link HERE.

    Hope that was at least informative, if not helpful. Cheers.

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  3. Anonymous
    2019-01-07T20:30:51+00:00

    So I just bought the new OneNote 365. The tabs across the top thing is in there. 

    The trick is that even when I bought office 365 and downloaded the entire suite, specifically including OneNote, for some reason full OneNote did not download. Only some half version, with the no tabs across the top, downloaded. The guy at the windows store basically had to walk me through it. 

    The whole proces seemed dumb and MS really should just get OneNote into whatever full download package and make it easy. Cause OneNote is great.

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