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I don't understand why we are being steered toward this app and away from the desktop version which had so many more features. You can't slap a more vivid shade of purple on a stripped down app and call it OneNote. There's so many note-taking apps out there and none of them comes close to OneNote 2016. The OneNote app is definitely creating alot of space for those apps to grab a larger share of the market.
Scrolling through several pages of Word printouts is painful on my computer; slow and choppy. Not to mention, I can't just drop a Word file onto the OneNote page and have it printout. I now must convert it to a PDF, insert it, then make it printout from there.
How about the Outlook functions which are now gone?
I'm not going to go on and on about what's wrong with the app since so many before have done that already. I'm just adding my voice to those who know that the OneNote app is an inferior product and it's important for Microsoft to hear it.
The OneNote app should offer everything that the desktop version offered, and I would assume even more. Microsoft, you are slowly taking away the things that keep me from buying a Mac. This isn't an upgradewhen you give us something with less features than its predecessor.
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I do appreciate the link, but MS does not provide support to onenote 2016 any more... the App has evolved a lot, but there are some key features available in onenote 2016 that have not been implemented in the app...
Thanks Centurion for your reply. It is a confusing topic, I'll take a look at the link you've provided and hopefully that will shed the light on it. I'm hoping that will be what I'm looking for. Much appreciated!
You can still install OneNote 2016 for free from Microsoft's site (they are purposely not advertising that so they can steer people into this nightmare on Windows 10). Here is the link:
Once you install it, your OneNote links on Outlook menus will point to the real OneNote. I work with OneNote 2016 every day (and have Office 365 installed) -- and I never have to interact with the Windows 10 version (thank God) ;o)
Lemme know if you have any questions.
I agree with Big Mike 311. I first came into the Office 365 world at Office 2016. So my first exposure to OneNote was the 2016 desktop version. I'm mainly an Access and Excel user but I thought it was about time I found out how OneNote worked. No sooner had I started learning OneNote 2016 desktop that the OneNote app arrived. As a lot of people are saying, this app is soooo featureless, it is a backward step. I stick with it because of my commitment to Excel, Access and Word but this app is very lightweight.
At the moment I have given up on using OneNote at all because the OneNote links on say Outlook menus all default to the ON app, is there any way of changing that to OneNote 2016?
I agree with Big Mike 311. I first came into the Office 365 world at Office 2016. So my first exposure to OneNote was the 2016 desktop version. I'm mainly an Access and Excel user but I thought it was about time I found out how OneNote worked. No sooner had I started learning OneNote 2016 desktop that the OneNote app arrived. As a lot of people are saying, this app is soooo featureless, it is a backward step. I stick with it because of my commitment to Excel, Access and Word but this app is very lightweight.
At the moment I have given up on using OneNote at all because the OneNote links on say Outlook menus all default to the ON app, is there any way of changing that to OneNote 2016?
"toddler-level, feature-sparse"
YOU'RE GOOD!! So was this person (and others on here): "A few months back when I got a new laptop I installed O365 for Windows 10 and my old OneNote 2016 desktop app had vanished and left me with something that looked like it was for middle schoolers."
But you're not stuck -- as others have pointed out, you can still download OneNote 2016 for free on Microsoft's site (they are purposely not advertising that so they can steer people into this nightmare on Windows 10). Here is the link:
Anyway, I am hammering away at this fiasco. I've gotten into a debate with a guy who did a video pushing this thing:
And here's another thread of others who share in the outrage.
What a useless, piece of garbage OneNote is. Notebook merge feature: nonexistent. Notebook delete: pointless because it creates "ghost" deleted notebooks that clutter up your list of living notebooks.
First of all, I imported my notes from Evernote. I had to export from Evernote and then separately import into OneNote's (toddler-level, feature-sparse) Windows 10 app because the app's importer didn't work. Whatever.
But now I'm stuck with a separate Evernote import notebook because Microsoft has apparently decided that I shouldn't be able to merge notebooks. Seriously, ****, can't merge notebooks?
And not only do I have more notebooks than I want,but every time I go online to use OneNote in the browser have to get confused by seeing 2 or 3 other "ghost" notebooks that I created and then deleted during the period when I was first getting set up with and playing around with the features of OneNote. Apparently I have to live with the visual clutter of "deleted" notebooks every time I try to look at a list of the notebooks I actually use. Because... reasons?
I may go back to Evernote, whose search function on Android is totally broken. That's how bad OneNote is: I may go back to using software that I can't even use on my phone.