Margins on top and left side of the page disappear in certain pages of notebooks in OneNote desktop version

Aren't options 1 and 3 a bit too drastic just to solve a bug that's most probably not hardware-related? My version of OneNote is 202206 which means that it's a June 2022 version and it so happened that I first encountered this problem last month which was also June or probably last 2 weeks of May. And, even if this is hardware-related, why are not all pages affected?

I did option 2 and opened the notebook with the bug in a newly created local account but the problem remained.

I created a shareable test notebook as instructed which includes some pages that have this problem. For some reason, the content of the pages were moved to the extreme left side of the page when viewed on browser. I tried moving them a bit to the center to see if that fixes the problem but that only moved the text box to the center. The margins are still not displayed.

I just realized now that the bug is most likely treating the page as if it's viewed on a mobile phone since viewing OneNote pages on phones usually cut off the margins by default. Normally, the margins should return when viewed on the desktop version as it did before but since last month, that stopped happening in certain pages.

One of the pages included in the test notebook was originally created on desktop and was never viewed on mobile so I don't think viewing them on mobile triggers this.

Sometimes to find the root cause, we need to look a little bit deeper. This kind of display problem is often due to compatibility issues between the programs you have installed (whether OneNote or others) and your hardware, and sometimes programs interfere with each other. That's why I suggest you disable hardware graphics acceleration and perform a clean boot. Of course, if you've already tried these and the result is the same, you can ignore these two suggestions.

I've downloaded the test notebook in my device and I didn't encounter the same problem indeed, with the same version of OneNote and Windows. There is simply no scrollbar at the bottom of the page. So I can't confirm that this is definitely a bug in OneNote or Windows. If you don't have another device, you can ask your family or your friends to have a try on their device, or wait for another member's feedback in Microsoft Community.

If the problem persists after you've tried everything, please let me know.

Sadly, that didn't work.

I feel with you 😥

Another idea which may sound silly: close the notebook and re-open it. Effect ?

(the reason behind this idea is the possibility of a bug in the local OneNote cache which is recreated after close/open).

Bernd

Although this works, this is honestly more of a band-aid solution. I honestly wouldn't have complained of this bug had it not appeared while I was in the middle of typing a note in a locally created notebook (the note has a single textbox only). The bug seemed to affect only the notebooks synced to OneDrive at first but soon, even my locally created notebooks (some of which was created from OneNote 2010 several years ago) got this bug too even though I've never touched them for years until I checked my notebooks a few weeks after I first encountered this bug.

The root cause is still not found yet and I have no idea how this is triggered. It just happens randomly. And when it happened, even the past version of the page are also affected which makes the restore previous page version function useless.

I think it's a bug within the page data structure. An interesting test would be to select the whole page content using CTRL+A, copy it to a new page and look whether the bug disappears.

Bernd