Jul 28 2021 04:18 AM
Hi!
The white colour option for pens, in the drop-down menu, is now a slightly gray colour (fig. 1). Any time I've ever used this colour on any page has been changed to that gray.
(fig. 1: weird gray colour.)
When I use the black shades in 'More Colours' to change the pen colour to white instead, it creates a new pen with the same light-gray colour (fig.2). If I attempt to change the colour using the new white colour option, below the 'More Colours' option, it does the same thing! (fig.3)
(fig.2 : selecting the pure white shade, with the desired drawing selected.)
(fig.3 : the new pen created, in the same colour.)
If I then click on the original pen to change it back, it makes a new pen (duplicates the original?) with the original thickness, and it won't let me select the original pen!!
But if I open the same, synced page in OneNote 2016, all the light-gray drawing on the page is the correct white!!! (fig.4)
(fig.4 : dun dun dun!!!)
A baffling mystery.
I have reinstalled OneNote for Windows 10, to no avail. Any idea what's going on?
Jul 31 2021 01:30 PM
Same here, first experienced it a couple of days ago, would really want know how to fix this!
Sep 27 2021 01:23 AM
I am having the same issue, 2 months later... i really hope this gets resovled
Nov 14 2021 02:31 PM
@lambda137
This is clearly still an issue into November 2021. I would like to point out one work around that I have been using since microsoft decided to sht the bed on this one. When I need a white pen is usually to use it as a white out over some image that I have pasted in. To avoid the failed grey pen feature that microsoft graced us with, I use snip tool to cut out a blank white block from the page and paste it over the stuff I want to white-out.
To microsoft:
Nobody ever wanted you to change white to grey. Who ruined this part of the app? Fire them please.
Mar 14 2022 04:25 AM
@avaughan Still an issue in March 2022!
Mar 15 2022 10:20 PM
Microsoft did not say this but a lot of people at my school would use the white pen to white out questions they didn't want to do. Maybe that's why, that's the only reason I can think of, because it really is a stupid feature. I guess they figured anti-cheat is more important than having a true white.
Mar 15 2022 10:26 PM
Mar 16 2022 11:26 AM