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OneNote only Searching current Section
Search in my OneNote works differently than I read it should. When I search in is only looking in the current section of my notebook. Since I tend to have many sections without a lot of pages in ...
- That's a screenshot of Teams not OneNote. The OneNote functionality within Teams isn't the same as OneNote or OneNote for Windows. Your initial post suggested that OneNote search was only looking at the 'current section' of your Notebook and in Teams you're searches are limited. If you want full search functionality use the full OneNote apps for your PC, not Teams.
That's a screenshot of Teams not OneNote. The OneNote functionality within Teams isn't the same as OneNote or OneNote for Windows. Your initial post suggested that OneNote search was only looking at the 'current section' of your Notebook and in Teams you're searches are limited. If you want full search functionality use the full OneNote apps for your PC, not Teams.
- I suspected as much. One of the most irritating things about Microsoft is their continual use of the same name for different products. It is hard to get users to adopt new tools when they aren't even sure what tool they are using.
Perhaps when they added it to Teams they should have called it "HalfANote".Actually, the problem you describe, as I've experienced it, has nothing to do with Teams. It is, and has been, a OneNote "glitch" for quite awhile. I tried most of the suggested "fixes," and none worked until a Reddit post offered the perfect solution. Close COMPLETELY out of the OneNote notebook you're having problems with. You do that from WITHIN ONENOTE. In the list of your (open) Notebooks, right-click the one you're having problems with, and choose "Close Notebook" so that the problem notebook disappears from your list of (open) notebooks. This somehow clears the cache. Just to be "safe," then close out of OneNote. Reopen OneNote, and you WON'T see your "problem notebook" because you've closed out of it. Click the "More Notebooks" prompt or button, you'll see your problem notebook. Open it. Then test your search again, and I'll bet that this time it works.
