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I have OneNote for Windows 10. Over the course of its life it is getting filled with Notebooks that I do not require. How can I delete them?
I am told: "To delete a OneNote notebook, do the following: Go to your OneDrive account and navigate to the notebook that you want to delete (it's likely stored in Files > Documents). Right-click the name of the notebook, and then select Delete."
This doesn't work because OneDrive is empty.
Alternatively I am told: "In File Explorer, navigate to your Documents (or My Documents) folder, and then double-click OneNote Notebooks."
This doesn't work because the OneNote folder in my Documents is empty.
I am out of options.
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Right click:
Microsoft nonsense: doesn't work on Home, only on My Files. (I think they changed this recently, not sure).
Recent list:
Only in OneNote from Office, not in OneNote for Windows 10 you seem to use.
Bernd
Thank you for your effort, which in my case fails!
I have very few notebooks on https://onedrive.live.com and they cannot be deleted by right click. Right click produces Open | Share - and that's it. No delete.
I don't seem to have a "Recent" list in OneNote
So neither your 1) or 2) work for me. There seem to be lots of versions of Microsoft OneNote, perhaps that's it - my version does not correspond with yours.
What I do have, is something called "More Notebooks" which has Notebooks which I don't use. What's tempting about them is that hovering over them produces "Notebook location...". Some people believe that if you can find the location, you can delete the Notebook. But in this case, Microsoft refuses to open the location. So that's no good.
Existing notebooks on https://onedrive.live.com can be deleted by right click.
No more existing (ghost-) notebooks (my #2) can mostly be deleted from the Recent list in OneNote by right click + Remove from List.
Bernd
Like Paul Singleton, I am replying to myself, with a run-down of whay none of these answers work, and a plea to Microsoft to get its act together.
Bernd P.
“You only can delete a notebook where it is stored. Usually on OneDrive. Then you have to go to https://onedrive.live.com and delete it there.”
Problem: very few of my notebooks are on One Drive. And I don’t see any “Delete” function there, anyway.
Possibly his problem 2 is relevant, but he doesn’t present an answer to the problem.
Niels Torp Steffensen
Same issue
Dan Nesthus
“Close it” is frequently not an option
When I tried this, I got this answer from Microsoft: “Sorry we couldn’t open the Notebook that you were looking for”
So that makes Dan's answer 3 inoperative, and therefore 4 and 5 also
Notebook User
“Go the My Content page. Click the 9 dots are the top right, click "See all my content””
Alas, I do not have a “My Content” page
Paul Singleton1
“There is never the option to delete these files. It does not give you that option even after closing the notebook. As with others there are no notebook files found in the default backup folders either. Where are these files and like others why is this not simple enough to do??!! “
This seems to correspond to my experience, but….
Paul Singleton
“In the upper-left corner of the page, select the App Launcher and select OneDrive.”
I don’t have this App Launcher on the upper-left corner of the page.
I am afraid my version of OneNote (OneNote for Windows 10) does not have an App Launcher image or name in the upper-left corner. I also tried moving to the newest version of OneNote, but that didn't work either.
It doesn't seem that Microsoft are devoting enough manpower to OneNote. I am very fond of it, find it very useful, use it every day - but it is alarming that it is not full functional, given these strange clunky bugs.