I just got off chat with Microsoft Support, which apparently even though I said it regarded OneNote, was not specific to OneNote and was not even aware OneNote has a search function (??!!). At any rate my problem is that in the past month or so, any new page I add to my notebooks cannot be searched for text. The customer support posed that this may be because it is image files, but this is not the case because I have used OneNote since August and have always uploaded ppt and pdf files and it always searches. In fact it still successfully searches these old files. I have attached some screenshots so you may see (Ctrl-F in a page with the word "closed" on a recent file does not find it; on an older file it finds it, and it also finds it using Ctrl-E in multiple older files). I have uninstalled and reinstalled both the app and the Microsoft Store version of OneNote (the problem exists in both). I have rebuilt the Windows search terms list and unclicked/clicked the OneNote search box per advice on other chat boards (screenshot attached as I am probably calling these things wrong).
I am told now that this board will go to the developers, so am very much hoping you will have other ideas. Do I need to remove older pages? Create a separate notebook because this one has gotten too large? Wipe and restart my Surface Pro so it can recreate the search database? This is for my doctorate so I am loath to do something that may cause problems. The first time I tried a recommendation from a chat board, which was changing the name of the cache file, it wiped out the last few days of additions to the notebook, which I cannot risk. I have paid for extra cloud storage so everything should be there, but somehow it was not. Thank you for your help!
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