Troubleshooting differences between section groups and notebooks in OneNote 2007
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john guinn on MS Onenote problem:
He posted his question about what had happened over at our discussion groups. Here’s an excerpt:
A user wrote:
Somehow, somewhere, I dislocated the structure of my ON 2007 files. The result is that ON has converted previous ON notebooks and sections into section groups, and sections. Thus I now have one giant notebook in
the created folder MyDocs | OneNote Notebooks. It contains section groups which previously were separate ON files.
What should the main folder for ON notebooks be named. And how can I rearrange things to get back to the original group of separate notebooks.
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“John Guin [msft] wrote…
It sounds like you right clicked the “OneNote Notebooks” folder in My Docs and selected to open it as a notebook. OneNote would treat that folder as the “parent” and all subfolders as section groups.
Here’s what I would do.
1. Ensure my backups are up to date.
2. In OneNote, right click and close all open notebooks.
3. Use Explorer to open the OneNote notebooks folder.
4. Navigate to the folders that hold the individual notebooks I want open, right click them and select to “Open as OneNote Notebook.”
Each notebook is named the name of the folder that holds it by default. You can override what the OneNote navigation bar shows as the name by right clicking the notebook in OneNote and selecting “Rename.” This will not change the name of the folder on the hard drive - it only changes what the UI shows. I do this frequently for notebooks that have long names to shorten them so I can see more notebooks at once.
John Guin
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