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Juan M Baena's avatar
Juan M Baena
Iron Contributor
Jan 08, 2019

OneNote

Good Day   On the SharePoint Online default OneNote Notebook that gets provisioned with the web site, we see the OneNote Notebook is stored on the site assets library.  We also see that the site as...
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Eric Eaton's avatar
Eric Eaton
Iron Contributor
Jan 08, 2019

I've never noticed that the SP interface doesn't show versions for OneNote files. However, OneNote does its own versioning that is more granular (down at the page level) than SharePoint's. It's recommended that you do version management / restores from the OneNote UI instead of SharePoint's UI. To find versions for a page, just right-click on the page tab and choose 'Show page versions'. This displays the version history as kind of phantom tabs immediately below the latest version. You can then choose to view / restore any version you like.

If your goal is to restore pages or sections that have been deleted, again that's typically done within OneNote. Look for the History tab and then 'Notebook Recycle Bin'. It keeps things in there for 60 days, by default.

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Denise Grightmire
Copper Contributor
Jan 20, 2019

Where is the History tab found? I cannot find it in OneNote.

Eric Eaton wrote:

If your goal is to restore pages or sections that have been deleted, again that's typically done within OneNote. Look for the History tab and then 'Notebook Recycle Bin'. It keeps things in there for 60 days, by default.