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

The new position of the search bar is terrible and a software failure!! I cannot find a way to reposition it. Does Microsoft actually test their product changes before rolling them out as the gospel?

Unfortunately, in recent years, no - instead of internal QA they now just roll it directly out to paying customers and use them as the QA instead. If enough people complain about something, they'll fix or revert it. But it's a terrible model when it comes to customer service/user experience, even if it may be more "efficient" from a business perspective. Thus it's no surprise that quality and stability of much of their software has dropped in recent years.

(I know this was probably a rhetorical question but felt the need to answer it anyway because the answer is so ridiculous...)

I also do not see the Search group option. Did Microsoft forget to roll that out with this change or does our organization need to do something to see it? The new placement of the search bar without an option to move it back to the original position is awful.

That's because that is NOT a fix for the issue, the only entire "Work Around" is a long winded way of saying "switch from normal view to full screen view" and that's it! Nothing else beyond that. Just telling us to change the view to one that is designed to be used like a digital notepad with a stylus pen for tablet computers. There has yet to be any actual fix for people using OneNote to type notes on a desktop (the majority of the way it is used) to fix the problem Microsoft created when you moved the search. The only actual fix is for Microsoft to roll back the last update, and to NEVER do it again.

Very disappointed with Microsoft. The suggested fix does not work for me.

@microsoft

can you PLEASE stop making changes?

you just keep making the product worse and worse and worse.

Ditto, Ditto