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

Anonymous
2025-05-15T05:04:16+00:00

In my OneNote the field box for "Search Notebooks" positioned itself over the title of the page and I can't move it.

I tried various Display settings and also reset the cache.

Anyone knows how to solve this ?

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  1. Anonymous
    2025-05-15T06:45:08+00:00

    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

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  2. Anonymous
    2025-05-15T16:45:03+00:00

    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.

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  3. Anonymous
    2025-05-15T17:37:35+00:00

    The OP obviously uses RTL.

    Bernd

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  4. Anonymous
    2025-05-19T10:57:22+00:00

    Please have an option to place it on the ribbon. I break my page in 5 columns, and it blocks the top of the 5th column. It creates dead space on your worksheet.

    Thank you

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  5. Anonymous
    2025-05-19T14:31:29+00:00

    Hi DanielUR,

    If you still have further concerns, please feel free to let us know.

    Nam-D - MSFT | Microsoft Community Support Specialist.

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