One Note - Hiding completed tasks once completed on Desktop

Anonymous
2020-01-25T07:35:53+00:00

Where in One Note desktop version is the hide completed tasks from To Do lists. On my phone the completed tasks disappear but on the desktop they all remain making this a useless very long To Do list - finding open tasks is awful. Having to fully delete Tasks in To Do lists in Desktop OneNote leaves no record of ever doing the task. Often I want to check when I completed it - particularly with my work account. There should be an option in the ribbon to hide completed To Do's once completed. If it does exist I would love to know how to do it as I can't find it. 

I have started using OneNote at work and on my personal account for organising and recording daily activities and this flaw is making me have to look at alternatives for To Do lists which is a shame, as the mobile version seems to have the functionality. 

Regards

Julian Floyd

Microsoft 365 and Office | OneNote | For home | Windows

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-11-24T14:59:15+00:00

    There's a workaround that I found that might be helpful to others that is having this issue.  

    What you can do on your pc is that you can create a new list with a "new box" on the same page, put in the new list and discard the old list completely.  

    This way, the old list will be deleted forever, so you don't have to keep the long completed list that you already cross out on the phone.  In addition, the phone will always combine your new list in the new box as if it's one list.

    Hope this method helps, as you can always do everything on your desktop without using the phone.

    Nick

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-01-19T18:18:16+00:00

    How do you get the checked tasks to disappear from the iPhone/iPad?  I'm checking the to-do boxes, and they're still visible.

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-02-23T11:43:44+00:00

    I have the same issue and think this should be straightforward - MS please fix this.

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  5. Anonymous
    2021-02-24T19:06:58+00:00

    FOR THE LOVE OF GOD!!!!!!!! Why can't this be as easy as a button. GEEEZ!!!

    Users: We should start a go-fund me or a sign a petition letter thing and spread the word and make MS be ashamed of themselves. And make it go national , global, or at least on the internet. Lol. It's not that hard to program. Just check the value of the box and then hide. And if you create a summary list, PLEASE, make it keep the nested formatting it has on the original list. That way we know what goes where. Don't sort it and mess it up!!!!

    *If a 90yr old man can make AT&T get attention using an ad on a magazine, and got them to fix his problem, imagine if this fix it went viral. It's not that hard to fix this/add this feature. GEEEZ. Lol.

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