How to transition from OneNote on a shared drive to OneNote 365?

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Hi,&nbsp;We've been using OneNote for ages.&nbsp; We have a shared drive that our OneNote files are on so everyone from our team can open up OneNote and see/modify the information.&nbsp;We are now transitioning to Office 365 and Microsoft Teams and I'm not sure of the best way to do that.&nbsp; I can't copy/paste all the information because we have dozens upon dozens of tabs and each has multiple pages within.&nbsp;We do use OneDrive Files-on-demand to sync Teams files down via Sharepoint but that won't work right for Onenote since each person would be modifying their own local copy.&nbsp; Is there some way to upload local OneNote files into Teams so that everyone can use OneNote together like we do now?&nbsp; Just not sure on the best approach.&nbsp;Thanks!

deleted · Answer

I had a large notebook I moved by moving sections manually across. You can do it at the root level and it’ll copy everything under it across.

kelemvor333 · Answer

And can that be viewed in Teams?&nbsp; The tutorials I saw made it look like OneNote online sets up a tab for each Team Channel and then pages within that but I need 40-50 tabs and multiple pages inside each.&nbsp; I'll have to look at it tomorrow and see what I can find.

deleted · Answer

That’s old documentation. You can now have seperate notebooks for every tab. Multiples per channel if you want. They all get saved in a Notebook folder teams generates. The name I can’t recall atm. But you can create a new one each tab or you can link to an existing OneNote. Even one from another team should you have access.

kelemvor333 · Answer

I created a new tab for OneNote but didn't see any way to import/upload an entire OneNote notebook from a local location.&nbsp; It only gave me options of using an existing one from within Teams or creating something new.&nbsp; Maybe I just missed a step somewhere.&nbsp; Happen to have any other information I can use to get this figured out?

jayfmstechcomm · Answer

Not sure I'm understanding the problem, but this is similar to how I moved notebooks from OneDrive Consumer to OneDrive for Business.&nbsp;In the local copy of the notebook, put all of the sections into one or more Section Groups.&nbsp; Then, create an empty notebook on Office 365 and open both notebooks in OneNote on the desktop.&nbsp; You can use &lt;CTRL&gt;+M to open a second instance on the desktop for opening the second notebook.&nbsp;Then, you can drag Section Groups from one notebook to the other.

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