In OneNote the Search bar has moved, How do I put it back to where it was?

J.C._PM - you are so right! We need to keep this thread alive until an actual human, with access to the powers that be, reads it and does something. It was even difficult to get Microsoft support when working for a Microsoft Partner. I'm in on getting this issue fixed for the long haul.

Because of this and the fact that links to my own folders now don't work (one of the my most used features), I am now actively looking for an alternative. There are quite a few available but I haven't found one in which I can import my OneNote content yet. I guess I should never have been too reliant on one software. I have built up years of content on OneNote as it's been central to the way I use my PC, not just a note taker.

Thank you for taking your time to answer even if Microsoft does NOT. I literally hate using OneNote now because of the stupid Search Notebook placement. I wish I knew of another software app that I could use instead. Would be great if I could download all of my Notebooks and contents to a software that was more user friendly.

Well it still remains that we have to keep with the feedback… so whichever one eventually gets their attention is, at the end of the day, great!! Then we’ll ALL be happy. We cannot just sit by believing they’ll never see our comments so we won’t comment. I personally do not care WHY they make a change back so long as they do.

As someone who spent 22+ years in ITS support, I've found that writing to a company about any problem is usually a waste of time. I don't care what the question, they will never give you a straight answer (kinda like US politicians). I did one on one support where there was only a solution and no hyperbole. I did both hardware repair (easy - find what's broken and replace it), operating system support (not quite as easy, but definitely doable), and software support (hardest of all) where thee was no fixed set of programs being used. I didn't have a book. I didn't have a database where I could copy and poste, I had to know the answer or at the very least know where to find the answer.

Yes, I have also worked in IT/Tech Support for years. and this is one of those things that does not have an answer as, at least not as the application is right now. It is just broken and the only thing that will fix it is another app update (or roll back).

But it is not like Microsoft makes it easy to communicate directly from a customer/end user up to a software programmer, and the only channels for support seem to be this forum (which is no help) and submitting feedback from within the app itself, which has no way of knowing if anyone is even reading the feedback, or doing anything about it.

So pretty much the only options are to continue commenting on this post, and hope that someone (who can actually do something about it) pays attention to it if it is being commented on and stays in the active forum posts list for a long time. Or to keep submitting feedback in the app and hope that again, due to the high volume of feedback submissions, someone actually does something about it. Or to just sit here and wait and hope that they randomly change it again in a future update, but even if they do, there will probably never be any indication as to which method (if any) of feedback to Microsoft actually resulted in the requested fix being implemented. For all we know, Microsoft app programmers (or the boss that approves the changes) never get any of the feedback from either this forum, or from the in app submissions and we are all just wasting our time.