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Difficulties transferring notebooks between university accounts

Hello Microsoft, I recently have changed Universities and need to transfer my OneNote (and other) contents from one university account to my new one. I have read your documents about how to do complete this but it has not worked. I have tried on Mac and…

Microsoft 365 and Office | OneNote | For education | MacOS
asked 2026-09-07T23:24:00.0266667+00:00
Lachlan Rogers (25544951) 0 Reputation points
commented 2026-09-09T00:10:38.4266667+00:00
Jade Ng 15,485 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator
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One note login issues

i am able to log into onenote via google search with my school email on my macbook, when i try to log into onenote on the app on my mac it says that i cant log in via my school account. how do i resolve this issue?

Microsoft 365 and Office | OneNote | For education | MacOS
asked 2026-09-04T00:41:26.5433333+00:00
Davis, Felicity 0 Reputation points
commented 2026-09-06T03:03:29.51+00:00
Hani-Ng 1,410 Reputation points Independent Advisor
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Onenote stuck on please wait screen

Whenever I open one note on my mac after about a minute or after changing the page I am looking at, the little please wait screen comes up and my curser turns into the rainbow spinning wheel of death, and then is stuck like this so I have to force quit…

Microsoft 365 and Office | OneNote | For education | MacOS
asked 2026-08-07T04:54:09.72+00:00
Elodie W 0 Reputation points
edited a comment 2026-08-14T18:19:15.42+00:00
Alina Le 5,000 Reputation points Independent Advisor
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Language won't stay on English on OneNote

I am an international student, from Norway but studying in England. And it really annoys me that my OneNote, which I love using for my studies, can't be set to English as the main language for each notebook. It is set to Norwegian by a default, and I…

Microsoft 365 and Office | OneNote | For education | MacOS
asked 2026-08-02T12:15:54.08+00:00
Annette 0 Reputation points
commented 2026-08-03T07:28:25.96+00:00
Hani-Ng 1,410 Reputation points Independent Advisor
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Unable to log in to OneNote using the school email.

I have already graduated from university(bupt), but my campus email can still log in normally. However, the Microsoft account registered with my campus email cannot log in now, and it shows the following error message: Request Id:  [Moderator note:…

Microsoft 365 and Office | OneNote | For education | MacOS
asked 2026-07-20T07:56:02.2433333+00:00
Zhaojie Li 0 Reputation points
edited the question 2026-07-20T08:32:27.8+00:00
Tamara-Hu 17,960 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator
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Lost note in OneNote visible on web search bar but can't open it

One of my notes appeared lost on OneNote MacOS app. Nowhere to be found in deleted notes etc... However, when I type the note name into the search bar on OneNote Web, I can see that the page comes up, but when I click on it, it doesn't load and just…

Microsoft 365 and Office | OneNote | For education | MacOS
asked 2026-07-08T11:34:13.5066667+00:00
Matthew Morgan 0 Reputation points
commented 2026-07-09T07:56:10.4966667+00:00
Liora D 18,920 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator
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How to fix error 0xE0000796: OneNote can't sync your notes because your account is out of space

I'm trying to get my Onenote to sync between my ipad and my computer (both using the same account), but this error message keeps popping up. I've checked the Onedrive account my Onenote is attached to and I have plenty of storage left. I tried deleting…

Microsoft 365 and Office | OneNote | For education | MacOS
asked 2026-07-07T14:17:29.23+00:00
Erin C 0 Reputation points
commented 2026-07-08T23:04:16.97+00:00
Anonymous
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Recovering Lost data

Dear Support Team Hi I am [Moderator note: personal info removed]  a user of Education account from webster university which is [Moderator note: personal info removed] .edu. with my subcription I was using Microsoft one note and and somehow now I cant…

Microsoft 365 and Office | OneNote | For education | MacOS
asked 2026-06-25T04:59:08.21+00:00
Abrorkhon Isroilov 0 Reputation points
edited the question 2026-06-25T06:17:29.7533333+00:00
Anonymous
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Want to download OneNote but have macOS Monterey version 12.7.6 and says it requires macOS14

I want to download OneNote but have macOS Monterey version 12.7.6 so when I go on the App Store to download says it requires macOS14, despite having have Word, Powerpoint, Excel and Outlook already downloaded onto my mac laptop. Please could someone…

Microsoft 365 and Office | OneNote | For education | MacOS
asked 2026-01-07T15:11:54.5233333+00:00
KA Mullins 0 Reputation points
commented 2026-06-20T14:07:37.24+00:00
Randy Rodriguez 0 Reputation points
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Onenote Copilot not working when working previously.

Copilot is not working within the Onenote window on Mac. When I hit the copilot button, the window remains blank. My copilot subscription through my student account is still active (I've verified my account is active). Moved from: Microsoft Copilot |…

Microsoft 365 and Office | OneNote | For education | MacOS
asked 2025-11-29T17:41:46.83+00:00
Matthew Marquez 0 Reputation points
answered 2026-06-04T10:23:32.8+00:00
Michele Romano 0 Reputation points
3 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

how do I rename a notebook in one note

can I rename a notebook in one note in MAC OS because I want to have a standardise look to my notebook names

Microsoft 365 and Office | OneNote | For education | MacOS
asked 2026-05-19T00:05:07.63+00:00
Kevin Gunn 20 Reputation points
commented 2026-05-21T01:44:15.46+00:00
Anonymous
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Cant find the "find tag's" feature or summary pages in OneNote for Mac

Hi, I’m having trouble with OneNote for Mac and was hoping someone could help. I can’t find the “Find Tags” feature or any option to create a tag summary page. I’ve watched multiple tutorials and read through Q&As, but the option just doesn’t appear…

Microsoft 365 and Office | OneNote | For education | MacOS
asked 2026-05-01T00:33:08.7+00:00
Stella Daldry 0 Reputation points
commented 2026-05-04T02:03:36.5333333+00:00
Anonymous
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my one note hasn't synced for almost a 2 weeks

my notebook won't sync no matter what I do, even if I select sync this notebook. my internet connection is fine and this isn't the first time its done this. as a uni student I heavily rely on one note for my note taking despite many people telling me the…

Microsoft 365 and Office | OneNote | For education | MacOS
asked 2026-04-26T21:31:26.07+00:00
Zara Akhtar 0 Reputation points
commented 2026-04-29T17:34:02.26+00:00
Ian-Ng 14,150 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator
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Double-click a word and drag to highlight does not work on OneNote!

So the way this is supposed to work is that you double-click a word, then while still holding, you drag a section of text and then you're highlighting that section. If you try it literally on any program on your computer, it will work. Except on OneNote!…

Microsoft 365 and Office | OneNote | For education | MacOS
asked 2025-12-12T07:55:10.7066667+00:00
Kirsten Frost 0 Reputation points
commented 2026-04-29T16:23:42.3733333+00:00
Bob Jones AKA CyberTaz MVP 437.7K Reputation points
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error in importing onenote

i have downloaded onenote in windows and trying to import it in my mac but its not allowing it in mac what i can do ?

Microsoft 365 and Office | OneNote | For education | MacOS
asked 2026-02-28T05:50:39.34+00:00
Vedpathak Omkar Balasaheb 0 Reputation points
answered 2026-02-28T05:50:54.2366667+00:00

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Merging table cells in OneNote

How do we merge cells in a table in OneNote ? Does someone have an alternative for this ?

Microsoft 365 and Office | OneNote | For education | MacOS
asked 2026-02-24T18:45:44.57+00:00
DMA 0 Reputation points
edited an answer 2026-02-26T02:29:51.6666667+00:00
Anonymous
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Custom Tags not working on Mac OneNote, despite multiple updates

Hoping this gets to developers: the Custom Tag creation has not been working on the MacOS version of OneNote for a couple of months now. Surely the team is aware of this? Hoping this can be fixed soon. I have tried troubleshooting multiple times to no…

Microsoft 365 and Office | OneNote | For education | MacOS
asked 2026-02-23T19:35:34.28+00:00
Amber Mirabello 0 Reputation points
commented 2026-02-23T23:39:52.48+00:00
Anonymous
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it wont let me create a new notebook

Hi Ive been having this issue for a while now trying to create a new notebook however everytime i do it comes up with this message Cannot Create This Notebook The location might not be available at this time, or you might not have permission to save…

Microsoft 365 and Office | OneNote | For education | MacOS
asked 2026-02-18T07:44:18.2566667+00:00
annonymus 0 Reputation points
commented 2026-02-19T09:16:37.8433333+00:00
Anonymous
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my link to Toolkit doesn’t work.

My professor needs to open it the first time he clicks on it, and it opens for him. Thanks

Microsoft 365 and Office | OneNote | For education | MacOS
asked 2026-02-18T00:29:35.38+00:00
Edilia Mota 0 Reputation points
commented 2026-02-19T08:01:37.8566667+00:00
Anonymous
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I had to add one student to my MS Teams team later. He is in the team, but has no access to the class notebook. How can he gain access to the class notebook?

I have tried all the obvious possibilities to add the student to the class notebook. However, for whatever reason, my class notebooks also do not show in the mange students browser window. Is that because I created them with MS Teams? The class…

Microsoft 365 and Office | OneNote | For education | MacOS
asked 2025-10-24T07:48:24.3833333+00:00
Yvonne Flach 0 Reputation points
edited a comment 2026-02-11T12:54:18.6733333+00:00
Michelle SvL 0 Reputation points