MicrosoftI absolutely detest this new feature as someone who uses Horizontal tabs. The search bar is CONSTANTLY in my way. I don't want to press the double arrows to enter full screen mode as I need to be able to see my Notebooks and section tabe for navigation purposes. Please can you make this a toggle feature so I can put the search bar on either the ribbon (where it belongs) or back in the unused space? It's driving me insane.
MicrosoftThank you for the feedback! While I don't have a timeline to share, I wanted you to know that feedback like yours is heard by the team and has initiated the right conversations about how to further improve this area. We understand that the search bar can get in the way, so we will look for ways to reduce this impact without having to enter full screen mode.
I've just spotted another problem with the floating search box intruding onto the canvas; it makes it much harder to move content within a page. I have the notes and screenshots I took of a Build session this year and now that I have the transcript, I've dropped the transcript into the same page and I want to drag the screenshots into the right place in the transcript. usually that's pretty straightforward, but the floating search box makes it harder to see where I am and it seems to make the page scroll strangely as well, with some bounces and jumps as the canvas goes under the search box. these are really basic, everyday OneNote things that are now harder to do - pleeeeeeaaaaaaase give us a way to put the box back where it was! I've even got the perfect place to move it to - the gap at the end of the notebook list!
I fully agree with ScoutP and all others opposing this change. I use OneNote with Horizontal Tab layout, and the search bar was so awesome at the top of the page list... It fitted there so nicely!
Thank you for your reply. It's very appreciated.
Please don't try to lesson the impact of this incredibly unwelcome and just incomprehensible change: it's not that the floating search field "can" get in the way. It IS in the way! Every single moment of my work day! By obscuring the names of my patients / chart ID #s / medical notes I put in OneNote page titles, this change increases the risk that I will make a patient error.
I keep OneNote minimized so I can access at the same time other required platforms/documents on my desktop to do my job, and can't / shouldn't have to enter full screen mode to "fix" this problem MS has created. That is not a solution.
Please don't "reduce this impact". Don't try to "further improve this area". Just fix the problem! Put the floating search field back where it belongs, out of the way in a menu or toolbar, and not covering part of my workspace. Problem solved. It's really that simple. Not too many "right conversations" needed. There is no scenario, with probably any software/app ever created, where an immovable, unremovable, floating search field covering the workspace is appropriate. Thanks.
