I am trying to delete a OneNote Notebook. I cannot seem to achieve it.

I have the same issue. I have spent 30 minutes on this, of my spare time. No luck. 30 minutes to delete a notebook, reading all the FAQs, trying all option. It's should be the most simple and basic thing to be able to delete something, yet....

As indicated, and I have the same issue, the OneDrive OneNote Notebooks folder is empty so there is no way to right click on the Notebook name since it does not exist there.

This is a reply to Taiwo30, apologies for the delay.

Thank you for your attempted answer, but your items 2, 3 and 4 puzzle me.

2. Right-click on the Notebook and select 'Close This Notebook' to close the Notebook
3. Right-click on fhe Notebook again and select 'Delete' from the Context menu
4. A confirmation message will appear. Click 'Delete to Permantly delete the Notebook.

I don't understand these instructions. If I have closed the Notebook then the only way I can get it baxk, is to go to 'More Notebooks' - then the Notebook I was trying to delete will reappear.

But from there, there is no way to delete it. Not least, there is no Context menu. If you can tell me how to get to the Context menu, maybe I can follow your instructions, but my impression is that I am using a different Windows - Windows 10 and a very old Office - or something else is different about your setup, because I cannot do what you ask.

I cannot either understand BerntP's solution. None of the categories quoted between his > signs appear in my OneNote, this seems to apply to something utterly different.

For example 'Recent' - what does this refer to? There is no recent category in my OneNote.

'Ghostnotebook' - there is no ghostnotebook category in my OneNote.

I think I found a solution.

1. In OneNote, navigate to your list of notebooks. Right click on the one you want to remove and 'close' it.
2. Browse into the 'More Notebooks' area, then right click on the notebook you want to delete and select 'Open File Location'

Here's the weird thing, it looks like notebooks are actually stored as hidden folders that can only be viewed while trying to open them through this interface.

3. Locate the 'folder' for the notebook you are trying to delete, select it and hit delete, a message box will pop asking if you want to permanently delete...
4. Cancel out of the Open Notebook window.
5. You will still need to remove the name of the notebook from any recent notebooks list but it should be gone.

Give it a go...

OneNote from Office -> File -> Open -> Recent -> ghost notebook -> right click -> Remove from List

Bernd