OneNote "Search Notebooks" field covers the title and won't move

Hello, this is an intentional change we made to free up space in the Navigation:

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microsoft\_365blog/more-room-for-your-notes-in-onenote/4411729

I apologize for the side effect this has caused. Please use Help --> Feedback and send us feedback. As replied in the post above, we are listening to feedback and evaluating how to improve the design.

Is your page or keyboard using a right-to-left language such as Arabic or Hebrew? Typically in English the page title should be on the left, with the search box on the right out of the way. We're trying to understand the scenarios causing the most inconvienience.

If we weren't given the opportunity to provide feedback on the original change, why do we need to submit feedback to get the change reverted? It's clear from this thread that it was unnecessary and unwanted. Many organizations do not allow their users to submit in-app feedback, so even the feedback you're receiving is likely underreporting how much people dislike it. Just revert the change and be done with it.

I have the same issue, the search box hides the title of the page, and it is very disturbing. Please fix it so it goes back to the tabs bar where it was very well place and did not disturb anything for such a long time!

Hi DanielUR, 

 

Welcome to Microsoft Community. We glad to assist you here. 

 

I understand that you are facing with the issue that OneNote "Search Notebooks" field covers the title and you cannot move it anywhere else. To inspecting your issue, could you please provide me your screenshots of One Note's Display setting. Go to One Note > File > Options > Display. Please make sure no personal information is visible on the screenshot. 

 

While waiting for further assistance, you can try these workarounds: 

• Try change to Vertical Tab layout and change back to Horizonal Tab. To change view layout, Go to View > Tabs Layout > Vertical Tabs/Horizonal Tabs

 

• Try change your display scaling. In some situation, UI elements misalign due to scaling issues.  Go to Start > Settings > Display > Scale

 

 

• Check for One Note update. In One Note, go to File > Account > Update Options > Update Now.

• Try uninstalling and re-install One Note. To do this, go to Start > Control Panel > Under Programs tab, Click Uninstall a program > Find One Note and uninstall.

 

I hope this will help. Thank you for your patience and understanding. 

 

If you have other questions, feel free to ask. I will try my best to help you

Sincerely,

Nam-D - MSFT | Microsoft Community Support Specialist

NOTHING in this reply is helpful or correct, and to top it off, whoever replied with this does not even have the latest version of OneNote that has this problem.

This is a prime example of someone who has no clue what the issue they are replying to is actually about. and then just copy/pasting garbage responses to mark a ticket as "handled" so it will be ignored.

this comment should be deleted and the the issue re-opened.

Please put the Search Notebooks box back to where it was. It's terrible in this new location.

Same issue here. Why change something that isn't an issue much-less make it so that users can't revert back to the non-moronic layout.

The canned Microsoft response of "submit feedback" is just insulting. You submit feedback and if some random person there decides it's popular enough then the *might fix it. The top "upvoted" thing there is a year old and not implemented, proving that the 'feedback' system is just Microsofts way of telling its users to go yell into a hole if they don't like something.

But since MS doesn't give a **** and feedback is the only option to imagine your input matters...

• https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/idea/e4d00a0e-ccb0-ef11-95f5-6045bdbc7c39
• https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/idea/160c15bb-5d35-f011-a2d9-7c1e5299279a
• https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/idea/80ec6b2d-283b-f011-a2d9-7c1e5299279a
• https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/idea/feafddb0-5e3d-f011-a2da-000d3a05d8a6