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.

For people like myself using RTL languages, the issue is more obvious because the search bar overlaps with the title. This has a direct impact on the app's usability, especially for those who rely on OneNote for daily work. I understand that Microsoft aimed to free up space in the navigation, but the current implementation creates unnecessary frustration for RTL users. It would be helpful to provide an option to reposition or dock the search bar elsewhere in the menu bar.

Yes I agree. I also spent an hour looking for a tab or setting where i could manage it. Ughhh wasted time. I use OneNote daily and I never search my Notebooks. I do use all of the page at times. Useless change.

I agree with this comment; the Microsoft support response is no help.

I am a long-time OneNote user and this is the first annoyance I can recall.

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.

Same issue here, i want it placed above the list of pages again, where seeing one page less doesn't matter at all.

Issue for me is that the tex box is also a third smaller expect if you manually make it bigger, so doesn't make sense at all.....