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

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.

Hi,

This change makes no sense, and is so annoying; step 3: there is no search group, I cannot see where to moved search back to the right, so all page titles are highlighted instead of left view

Those instructions are old and out of date. It was a copy/paste response from Microsoft without actually reading the issue to see that is is a NEW problem and not just a generic question about how to use the search. Just illustrates how lazy and outdated the responses from the forum moderators are. They would rather give a wrong answer quickly instead of spending any amount of time actually looking into a reported problem to try and actually fix any issues.

There is no way to move it back but work around is if you click on the diagonal arrow within an open page, upper right, to expand the page, then click the dropdown icon notebook pic, upper right to expand...then click the magnifier glass you should see the old search bar where you can then see the full titles.

No, that is not a work around. That is just switching it to Full Page view which also removes 99% of the other buttons and makes it into a simplistic drawing app used for tablets. That's like saying the "work around" is to use a different app all together.

Even if that did work to actually be able to use the search and see the results, it doesn't remove the search bar from the main notes area that covers whatever happens to be in the upper right corner of your notes at all times. Unless you are willing to sacrifice those other 99% of buttons as stay in Tablet Drawing mode full time.

I would also suggest that we all go to this page (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/search-notes-in-onenote-539c3b56-accb-4e16-834d-61a6252ad65b) that is the supposed instructions for how to do a search in OneNote (that are out dated an incorrect after this last update broke it) and scroll down to the bottom of the page where it asks if the information was helpful, and of course select NO, then fill out the comment box as for why.