Microsoft Onenote Cheat Sheet

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A note-taking app tin beryllium helpful, particularly if it enables you and your co-workers to collaborate connected ideas. Microsoft OneNote is an fantabulous instrumentality for nan job. It’s pre-installed connected Windows 10 and 11 and is included pinch a Microsoft 365 subscription. But anyone tin download nan app and usage it for free.

This guideline walks you done nan basics of utilizing OneNote successful Windows, from creating and managing notes to collaborating connected them pinch colleagues. There’s tons much you tin do successful OneNote pinch Copilot, Microsoft’s generative AI tool, but it requires a paid subscription: a Microsoft 365 Personal aliases Family plan, a Microsoft 365 Copilot scheme for business, aliases a Copilot Pro plan. We’ll screen utilizing Copilot successful OneNote successful a abstracted article.

Note that location are 2 different versions of OneNote for Windows users. OneNote for Windows 10 comes preinstalled connected that OS, but this bequest app will scope extremity of support successful October 2025; Microsoft recommends that each users move to nan type called simply OneNote, which integrates pinch Microsoft 365 apps, runs connected Windows 10 and 11, and is available for free from nan Microsoft Store.

Other disposable versions see apps for nan web, macOS, iOS, iPadOS, and Android. These whitethorn look aliases enactment a small otherwise than described here, but nan basal functionality is similar. This guideline will picture notable differences successful nan features and interfaces of nan mobile apps.

Get started pinch OneNote

OneNote uses Microsoft OneDrive (or OneDrive for Business) to sync nan notes you create to nan cloud, truthful your notes are ever up to day crossed each your devices. Thus, nan app requires that you motion successful pinch a Microsoft personification account. If your institution uses Outlook aliases you person a free webmail relationship connected Outlook.com, for example, you already person a Microsoft personification account. If not, you tin sign up for one for free.

To understand really to activity successful OneNote, it’s adjuvant to first cognize its organizational structure:

  • A Microsoft personification relationship tin incorporate aggregate notebooks.
  • Each notebook tin incorporate aggregate sections.
  • Each conception tin incorporate aggregate pages. (OneNote refers to an individual statement arsenic a “page.”)

This organizational building is reflected successful really an opened notebook is presented successful OneNote, and really you interact pinch it:

  • Along nan near is simply a sidebar that lists 1 aliases much notebooks. When you double-click a notebook’s name, this opens aliases closes a listing of nan sections that are successful this notebook. (If you don’t spot this sidebar, click nan three-line icon to unfastened it.)
  • When you click connected 1 of these sections, it opens a file to nan correct listing nan pages that are successful this section.
  • When you click connected 1 of these pages, it opens nan page successful nan main model of nan OneNote app. You tin position nan page’s contents, scroll done it, and edit it.
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OneNote shows notebooks, sections, and pages successful nan near columns, pinch nan existent page showing successful nan main model area.

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Along nan apical of nan OneNote app is simply a elemental type of nan Ribbon toolbar recovered successful Microsoft 365 apps for illustration Word and Excel. Click nan tab names connected apical of nan toolbar, and nan toolbar will alteration to show related commands. For example, clicking View will show buttons for different ways to position a page, specified arsenic zooming successful aliases retired of it (click nan magnifying solid pinch a + aliases – successful it) aliases launching nan page successful a caller model (click Full Page View).

In nan OneNote mobile app: To spot nan database of notebooks successful your account, pat nan Notebooks tab, past pat a notebook to unfastened it. The surface will move to different surface that lists nan sections successful nan notebook.

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The OneNote Android app shows a notebook’s sections.

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Tap a conception to unfastened it. The surface will move to different surface that lists nan pages that are nether it. Tap a page to unfastened it. You tin position nan page’s contents, scroll done it, and edit it.

Create notebooks, sections, and pages

When you motorboat OneNote, you’ll create a caller notebook aliases load a pre-existing one. (Note that there’s nary Save bid successful OneNote. Everything you do is saved automatically.)

Create a caller notebook: Toward nan precocious near of nan OneNote app, click File. The app will move to a caller surface pinch 3 columns. In nan first column, click New. In nan 2nd column, prime to shop your caller notebook successful your OneDrive relationship aliases connected your PC. In nan 3rd column, type successful a sanction for your caller notebook and click Create Notebook.

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Creating a caller notebook successful OneNote.

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Create a caller section: In nan near sidebar connected nan main OneNote screen, beneath nan sanction of nan notebook that you want to adhd a caller conception to, click + New Section.

Create a caller page: In nan sidebar, prime a conception that you want to adhd a caller page to. Then astatine nan apical of nan 2nd column, click Add Page.

Open a notebook: Toward nan precocious near of nan OneNote app, click File. The app will move to a caller surface pinch 3 columns. In nan first, click Open. In nan 2nd column, you tin prime different notebook record from various sources, specified arsenic from a database of notebooks that you’ve astir precocious opened, from your OneDrive, aliases from your PC. As you unfastened notebooks, they will beryllium added to nan sidebar successful nan main surface of nan OneNote app.

Switch to different notebook: In nan sidebar, simply double-click  another notebook connected nan database to navigate to it, and to unfastened aliases adjacent nan database of sections that are successful it.

Close a notebook: In nan sidebar, right-click a notebook and prime Close This Notebook. The notebook will beryllium removed from nan sidebar.

In nan OneNote mobile app: To create a caller notebook, section, aliases page, spell to nan surface that lists your notebooks, sections, aliases pages. In Android, pat + Notebook, + Section aliases + Page connected nan little left. In iOS, pat nan + icon to nan right.  Enter a sanction for nan caller notebook, section, aliases page by tapping nan matter introduction statement that’s supra nan existent date.

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In nan Android app, click nan + Page icon astatine little near to create a caller page.

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Work pinch frames connected a page

When you commencement typing anyplace successful nan assemblage of a page, a framework appears astir it. The much lines of matter you enter, nan taller this framework becomes. You tin set nan width of nan framework by dragging its correct separator line. You tin move nan framework to different spot connected nan page by clicking, holding, and dragging its apical separator line.

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A framework appears astir matter you type connected a note.

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When you click connected different area of nan page, nan framework astir nan matter disappears, leaving down nan matter wrong it. When you click connected nan matter again, nan framework astir it reappears.

This framing interface lets you create blocks of matter that you tin move astir connected a page. You tin moreover move 1 matter artifact complete different matter artifact — nan 1 connected apical will go transparent complete nan second.

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You tin move each artifact of matter successful its frame.


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Images, tables, and different elements you adhd to a page (covered later successful this guide) are besides placed wrong frames, making each page elements easy to put and manipulate. This gives OneNote pages much elasticity than you get pinch nan emblematic left-to-right, top-to-bottom attack of galore note-taking and word-processing apps.

Add matter by dictating

If you person a Microsoft 365 account, you tin besides participate matter connected a page by speaking. About a twelve languages are currently supported, pinch 30+ much successful preview testing.

On nan apical toolbar, click Home and past click nan Dictate (microphone) button. The first clip you usage nan dictation feature, you whitethorn request to springiness it support to usage your PC’s microphone. Wait for nan microphone icon to look successful a mini-toolbar complete nan page, and past commencement speaking.

Your words will look connected nan page wrong a frame, conscionable for illustration matter that you type in. To extremity recording, click nan microphone icon successful nan mini-toolbar.

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You tin adhd matter to a page via dictation.


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Format and tag text

You tin alteration respective aspects of matter connected a page.

Change matter formatting: Highlight matter that’s wrong a framework connected a page. A toolbar will unfastened by nan highlighted matter that lets you prime a formatting function, specified arsenic font name, size, item color, aliases matter color. (You tin besides right-click to unfastened this toolbar.) Alternatively, you tin click Home connected nan apical toolbar to spot these aforesaid matter formatting functions successful nan toolbar.

You tin besides format lines of matter arsenic a bulleted aliases numbered list. A slug icon aliases number will beryllium added to nan near of nan first statement of matter you type. Thereafter erstwhile you property nan Enter key, nan adjacent statement will besides beryllium preceded pinch a slug aliases nan adjacent sequential number.

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Formatting matter arsenic a numbered list.

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Tag text: Highlight matter aliases put nan cursor successful a statement of text. On nan formatting toolbar that opens adjacent nan text, aliases connected nan Home toolbar above, click nan Tags fastener (an icon of a checkmark wrong a container pinch a star). From nan dropdown paper that opens, prime nan tag that you want applied to this statement of text.

This puts an icon to nan near of nan statement that nan matter is on, specified arsenic a checkbox for “To Do” aliases a prima icon for “Important.” You tin besides create a caller tag sanction and prime an icon for it.

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You tin heighten matter pinch interactive checkboxes aliases different icons.

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The checkbox that designates a statement of matter arsenic a To Do point is interactive. Clicking nan mini container will people it pinch a check.

In nan OneNote mobile app: To adhd matter to a caller page, pat beneath nan existent date. Or if nan page already has matter aliases different elements connected it, pat a spot connected nan page wherever you want to adhd further text.

The on-screen keyboard of your telephone aliases tablet will unfastened pinch a toolbar on nan apical of nan keyboard. Icons connected this toolbar fto you insert To Do, bulleted, aliases numbered lists, aliases format matter successful various ways.

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Formatting matter successful a statement successful nan OneNote Android app.

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Add images, media, and different elements

Set nan cursor connected nan page wherever you want nan constituent to appear. Click Insert supra your notebook. The Insert toolbar that opens lets you insert tables, files, images, video, and different elements to nan page. Not each nan options are visible connected nan toolbar; click nan three-dot icon astatine nan acold correct to spot each nan functions available.

These are nan astir notable elements to insert:

Table: Clicking this fastener opens a sheet wherever you tin resistance your pointer to prime nan number of columns and rows you want for a caller table.

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Adding a array to a note.

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When you’ve made your array size selection, click once, and nan array will beryllium inserted connected nan page wrong a frame. You tin set nan width of a array by clicking connected and dragging nan correct broadside of its frame. You tin move nan array itself to different area connected nan page by clicking connected and dragging nan apical broadside of its frame. To set nan sizing of nan columns, click connected and resistance nan vertical lines wrong nan table.

Inside each compartment of nan table, you tin type matter aliases numbers, and moreover adhd a picture, arsenic described later.

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A array tin incorporate text, images, and more.

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File Attachment: This fastener opens File Explorer. You tin prime a record connected your PC’s thrust aliases OneDrive.

When you insert a file, it appears arsenic a shortcut connected nan page. If it’s a shortcut to an .EXE file, clicking it will tally nan programme connected your PC. Otherwise, clicking nan shortcut will load it wrong a corresponding app. For example, if it’s a .DOCX aliases .DOC file, nan archive will motorboat wrong Microsoft Word. Clicking a shortcut to an audio aliases video record will motorboat your PC’s default media player.

File Printout: This besides opens File Explorer. You prime a PDF connected your PC’s thrust aliases OneDrive. All of nan PDF’s pages will beryllium added to nan page arsenic a bid of images. When you click immoderate of these images, 8 dots look astatine its sides and corners. You tin click connected and resistance these dots to resize nan image.

Spreadsheet: Like File Printout, this action lets you embed an Excel spreadsheet connected nan page, and you tin resize it successful nan aforesaid way. It opens File Explorer truthful that you tin prime an Excel spreadsheet connected your PC’s thrust aliases OneDrive — aliases you tin embed a new, blank spreadsheet.

The embedded spreadsheet is fundamentally a ample image; you can’t edit it straight connected nan OneNote page. To edit nan spreadsheet, prime it connected nan page and click Edit successful nan precocious near of nan spreadsheet. This will unfastened nan spreadsheet successful nan Excel desktop app, if you person it installed connected your PC. Otherwise, it will unfastened successful nan Excel web app successful your default web browser.

Changes you make to nan spreadsheet successful Excel will (eventually) look connected nan embedded type successful OneNote. This is limited connected OneDrive moving to sync your activity betwixt OneNote and Excel. In my experience, nan updating doesn’t hap instantly — expect a delay.

Pictures: This presents you pinch 3 ways to adhd a image to a page:

  • From File: You prime an image record connected your PC’s thrust aliases OneDrive.
  • From Camera: You threat a photograph utilizing your PC’s webcam.
  • From Online: You adhd an image that you find via Microsoft’s Bing hunt engine.

Remember that nan image will look wherever your cursor is connected nan page erstwhile you click nan Pictures button. That intends you tin click wrong a matter framework aliases array compartment to person nan image look there.

When you click immoderate image that’s been added to a page, 8 dots look astatine its sides and corners. You tin click connected and resistance these dots to resize nan image.

Page Templates: Click this to unfastened a sidebar on nan correct of nan screen. On it, you tin prime from a ample assortment of page templates, which are preformatted for circumstantial uses, specified arsenic gathering notes aliases task to-dos. When you make a selection, a caller page is created and nan template is inserted onto it.

Link: You tin use a clickable web nexus to 1 aliases much words connected nan page. First, transcript nan web nexus to your Windows clipboard. Next, item nan connection aliases building connected nan page, past click Link. On nan sheet that opens, paste successful nan web link.

Record Audio and Record Video: A elemental audio aliases video signaling instrumentality will look on nan top. You tin grounds an audio aliases video clip if your PC has a microphone aliases camera. The signaling will look connected nan page arsenic a shortcut to its audio aliases video file. Clicking it will motorboat playback done nan due media player.

Online Video: This lets you paste successful a nexus to an online video connected a tract specified arsenic Giphy, Vimeo, aliases YouTube. A thumbnail of nan video will beryllium added to nan page. When you click nan thumbnail, nan video will play. You tin resize this thumbnail for illustration immoderate different image, arsenic described above.

Loop Components: If you person a Microsoft 365 business, enterprise, aliases acquisition account, you tin embed 1 aliases much Loop components connected a page. These are interactive contented snippets that you and others successful your statement tin collaborate on. See “How to usage Loop components successful Microsoft 365 apps” for an in-depth guide.

In immoderate versions of OneNote, nan pursuing constituent is included connected nan Insert toolbar. In nan existent OneNote app for Windows, you’ll find it connected nan Home toolbar.

Meeting Details: This fastener opens a sidebar on nan correct of nan screen. On it, you tin prime a day from your Outlook almanac that has a gathering aliases different arena scheduled connected it. Its details, specified arsenic time, date, place, and attendees, will beryllium inserted onto nan page.

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Inserting gathering specifications from Outlook into a note.

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In nan OneNote mobile app: To adhd images aliases different elements to a page, pat nan spot connected nan page wherever you want to put nan item. The on-screen keyboard of your telephone aliases tablet will unfastened pinch a toolbar on nan apical of nan keyboard.

In Android, pat + connected nan near of this toolbar to insert elements specified arsenic images, files, audio recordings, tables, and links.

In some Android and iOS, you tin pat nan camera icon to insert a photograph taken pinch your device’s camera aliases insert 1 that’s already stored connected it. Tap nan microphone icon to grounds a sound clip utilizing your device’s microphone.

Add drawings and alteration nan page background

You tin heighten your statement by drafting connected it aliases changing its design.

Add a drawing: Click Draw connected nan toolbar supra nan page. This opens a toolbar that lets you tie connected nan page, choosing from a scope of colors and statement thicknesses, aliases insert shapes specified arsenic ovals, rectangles, and triangles. You tin besides usage these devices to tie connected apical of images that you’ve added to a page.

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The drafting instrumentality lets you adhd speedy sketches aliases diagrams to a note.

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Change nan page background: Click View connected nan toolbar supra nan page. To adhd horizontal aliases grid lines to nan background, click Rule Lines and make a selection. To alteration nan page’s inheritance color, click Page Color. On nan sheet that opens, prime a color.

In nan OneNote mobile app: To adhd a drafting to a page connected iOS, pat nan pen extremity icon astatine nan precocious correct of nan screen. In Android, pat anyplace connected nan page to telephone up your on-screen keyboard. Tap nan + connected nan near of nan toolbar astatine nan apical of nan keyboard. On nan sheet that opens, pat nan pen extremity icon.

In some OSes, a basal drafting toolbar that includes different markers, an eraser, and a cut-out instrumentality will unfastened supra nan page. In Android, you tin pat and clasp a marker until a sheet opens that lets you alteration nan colour aliases thickness of nan marker.

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The drafting toolbar successful Android.

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Organize your notes

To entree your notes much efficiently, it’s worthwhile to deliberation astir really you want to shape them. You tin create aggregate sections wrong a azygous notebook for different projects, aliases create abstracted notebooks for different purposes.

Move a conception aliases page to a different spot successful its column: Click-and-hold nan sanction of nan conception aliases page, past resistance it up aliases down nan database to wherever you want to move it.

Move aliases transcript a page to different section: Right-click nan sanction of nan page and prime Move aliases Copy. On nan sheet that opens, prime nan conception that you want to move aliases transcript nan page to, and past click nan Move aliases Copy button.

Move aliases transcript a conception to different notebook: Right-click nan sanction of nan conception and prime Move aliases Copy. On nan sheet that opens, prime nan notebook that you want to move aliases transcript nan conception to, and past click nan Move aliases Copy button.

Delete aliases rename a conception aliases page: Right-click nan sanction of a conception aliases page and take Delete or Rename.

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The right-click paper for a conception of a notebook.

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Move a notebook: In nan first column, click-and-hold nan sanction of a notebook and resistance it up aliases down nan list. Let it spell successful nan caller spot wherever you want it to beryllium connected nan list.

Rename a notebook: In nan first column, right-click nan sanction of nan notebook and prime Properties. On nan sheet that opens, type a caller sanction into nan container by “Display name.”

Delete a notebook: Oddly enough, you cannot delete a notebook straight from nan OneNote desktop app. If you created your notebook successful OneDrive, its record will beryllium successful nan Documents files successful your OneDrive; you tin delete it utilizing nan mobile app aliases web type of OneDrive. (But you can’t usage File Explorer to entree your OneDrive to delete a OneNote notebook record — it doesn’t look successful File Explorer.)

However, if you created nan notebook successful a files connected your PC’s retention drive, it appears successful Explorer successful a files pinch nan sanction of your notebook. You tin delete this files to delete your notebook.

In nan OneNote mobile app:

  • To move a conception aliases page elsewhere successful nan list, pat and clasp nan sanction of nan conception aliases page, past resistance it up aliases down successful nan list.
  • To transcript aliases move a page to different conception aliases a conception to different notebook, pat and clasp connected nan sanction of nan page aliases conception to prime it. Then pat nan icon of a page pinch an arrow complete it — successful Android it’s astatine nan precocious right, connected iOS it’s astatine nan bottommost of nan screen. In Android, prime nan conception aliases notebook to move nan page aliases conception to, and besides prime Create a copy if you want to support a transcript successful its existent section. In iOS, take either Move aliases Copy, past prime nan location to move nan point to.
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Moving a page to different conception successful Android.

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  • To delete a conception aliases page, pat and clasp nan sanction of nan conception aliases page to prime it, past pat nan trash tin icon.
  • To rename a section, pat and clasp connected nan sanction of nan conception to prime it. Then pat nan cursor icon — successful Android it’s astatine nan precocious right, successful iOS astatine nan bottommost of nan surface — and type successful nan caller name.
  • To rename a page, pat to unfastened nan page. Next, pat nan first statement of matter astatine nan apical of nan page. Delete this matter and participate a caller sanction for nan page.

Search your notes

Toward nan precocious correct of nan OneNote app, click wrong nan container that has a magnifying solid icon and nan words Search Notebooks. This will unfastened nan hunt pane. Type words aliases phrases into nan hunt container to find pages that incorporate this text.

Search results look connected this pane. Click a consequence to unfastened nan page successful nan main window.

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Searching successful OneNote.

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Click nan down arrow astatine nan correct of nan hunt container to unfastened a dropdown wherever you tin broaden aliases constrictive nan hunt range: You tin hunt for matter done each your notebooks, nan existent notebook, nan existent section, aliases nan existent page.

Share and collaborate

There are 2 ways that you tin stock and collaborate pinch others connected your notes.

Share a web link: Right-click nan sanction of a notebook, section, aliases page, and prime Copy Link to Notebook (or …Section aliases …Page). This generates a nexus to nan item, copying it to nan Windows clipboard. As pinch immoderate mean web link, you tin paste it successful an email, instant message, document, etc.

Anyone who has a nexus to 1 of your notebooks tin position each nan sections successful it and each nan pages nether each section. If it’s a nexus to a section, they tin position only nan pages nether that section. A nexus to a azygous page allows them to position only that page.

Share your full notebook: You tin induce circumstantial group to position and edit nan notebook that’s presently unfastened successful nan OneNote app. Click nan Share fastener astatine nan upper-right area of nan OneNote app and prime Share Entire Notebook.

On nan “Send link” sheet that opens, there’s an area astatine nan apical wherever you tin induce circumstantial group to your notebook, and an area toward nan bottommost wherever you tin transcript a nexus to your notebook that you tin nonstop to others.

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Adjusting sharing permissions for a notebook.

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If you’re utilizing OneNote nether a activity aliases schoolhouse Microsoft account, sharing is governed by your organization’s rules. For instance, immoderate organizations whitethorn not fto you stock notebooks to anyone extracurricular your organization.

If you’re utilizing OneNote pinch a individual Microsoft account, nan default permissions let anyone who clicks nan nexus to edit your notebook, not conscionable group you’ve invited specifically. That intends nan group you’re sharing nan nexus pinch — and anyone they stock nan nexus pinch — tin alteration thing astir your notebook, including immoderate sections and pages wrong it. Their changes will beryllium synced to your transcript of nan notebook connected your OneDrive aliases PC drive.

Instead, we counsel 1 of these safer options:

  • To induce circumstantial group to edit aliases position your notebook: Click Anyone pinch nan nexus tin edit astatine nan apical of nan “Send link” panel. On nan “Link settings” sheet that appears, click Specific people and past click Apply. You’ll beryllium taken backmost to nan “Send link” panel. Enter nan email addresses aliases names of those you want to induce and optionally type a connection to them. If you want your recipients to beryllium capable to position nan notebook (including its sections and pages) but not change it, click nan pencil icon and prime Can view. Finally, click Send. They’ll person an email containing a nexus that tin beryllium opened only by them.
  • To let anyone pinch nan nexus to view nan notebook but not edit it: On nan “Send link” panel, click Anyone pinch nan nexus tin edit astatine nan bottommost (below “Copy link”). The aforesaid “Link settings” sheet described supra will open: Under “More settings,” click Can edit and prime Can view. Then click Apply, which will return to nan “Send link” panel. You tin transcript and safely nonstop nan nexus to your notebook for others to position and share.

Manage your notebook’s sharing permissions: After you’ve shared a notebook, you tin extremity sharing it aliases alteration anyone’s entree permissions astatine immoderate time. Click nan Share fastener and prime Manage Access.

On nan Manage Access sheet that opens: Click People to spot a database of group that your notebook is being shared with. You tin alteration each person’s entree (between Can edit and Can view) aliases region their entree entirely. Click Groups/family to beryllium capable to do nan aforesaid to groups of group that your notebook is being shared with. Click Links to alteration nan entree to your notebook’s nationalist nexus (Can edit aliases Can view), aliases you tin return down nan link.

In nan OneNote mobile app: To stock your notebook successful Android, pat Notebooks  at nan upper-left area of nan OneNote app. Tap-and-hold nan notebook that you want to share. Then pat nan Share icon astatine nan precocious correct (it’s to nan near of nan three-dot icon). In iOS, unfastened nan notebook, past click nan three-dot icon astatine nan precocious correct and prime Share Notebook.

On nan surface that appears successful either OS version, you tin take either to induce circumstantial group to your notebook aliases to transcript a nexus to it that you tin nonstop to others via email, instant message, text, etc. The interface varies somewhat depending connected which OS you’re utilizing and whether you’re utilizing a individual aliases work/school account, but wide nan sharing functions and selections successful nan mobile app are very akin to those of nan OneNote app for Windows.

Restore an older type of a page

If you’re not happy pinch caller changes to a page, you tin spell backmost and reconstruct an older type of it.

Open nan page successful nan main model of OneNote. Along nan apical of nan OneNote app, click nan History tab. On nan History toolbar, click Page Versions. (In nan OneNote web app, you’ll find Page Versions connected nan toolbar’s View tab.)

To position an older version: In nan 2nd column, listed straight beneath nan sanction of nan page, you’ll spot 1 aliases much dates that correspond older versions of it. Click nan day of an older type to unfastened it.

To reconstruct an older version: Right-click nan day of an older type of nan page, past prime Restore Version from nan pop-up menu. This will switch nan page pinch nan older version. What was nan existent type will past beryllium moved down successful nan versions database to go nan astir caller older version.

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You tin take an earlier type of a page to spell backmost to.

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This communicative was primitively published successful July 2019 and astir precocious updated successful May 2025.

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