OneNote: Edit default view in the tab so you can see all of the pages within a section
The default view for OneNote notebook is set to "Hide All" so it only shows you the first section of the page. If you want to view the pages within a section, you have to click on View > Navigation Options > Show Only Pages. As soon as you click off of that tab the view defaults back to Hide All. It would be great if Team Owners could choose the default view.
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Anonymous
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please change default setings, add my vote
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Tom
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Too many users think that OneNote is another cute single-endless-page notepad thingy because it hides the availability of sections and pages. It complicates the learning curve since that first impression is so hard for them to get over. At least let us get some way to call out the arrow that reveals the navigators.
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Allison W
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I completely agree. This should be an owner right to set the default view as they see fit.
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YouMust BeJoking
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Actually, this default behaviour seems to me already the optimal presentation of OneNote for the Teams environment.
Microsoft has done a great job that can hardly be improved upon by endless tinkering. It would be very confusing if every time you came to a Notebook it might sometimes display to you the last page you were working on and sometimes not.
Far more useful and much neater is to have Teams automatically tidy up behind you when you move your attention on to refer to some other detail of your work, or hit a game break, or lifestyle interval. That way, on return you can rely on being right back in exactly the one place you can expect to find yourself: in the moment, where everything seems possible, and one thing seems no less unreal than another.
Everyone uses Teams in a different way and there are as many ways to use Teams as there are teams using Teams. Where would we be if we restricted our imagination to look backwards in our thoughts with the compulsive habit of setting our own individual preference? That sounds too much like going over the past, back to plain old Office, not new and exciting Teams. Teams is modern. Teams brings the old guard together with the new virtual generation, and vice versa. These days, especially if you say you are English, you can expect to be fully connected: always online, always in context. It would exclude and put off the brave new wave to insist on old hang-ups, like exercising individual judgement, or caring enough to take the time to think for oneself.
Traditionalists would do well to realise that we the younger generation have the full attention span of a healthy goldfish and no need whatsoever of remembering where we were just now, or what we were doing. We have Teams for that. We will only get confused by being dumped into what will appear to us to be a random part of a Notebook. We could then be anywhere and it will seem irrelevant, if not disturbing to our diminished power of memory. It will become, depressingly, our whole world. Like being trapped in a maze, we will never find our way out to other parts of the Notebook.
Much more helpful to bring us again and again to the new dawn so that our evergreen thinking remains fresh, optimistic and unified. Wherefore art though, Microsoft? This seems deliberately maddening - a cruel joke. We will have to tolerate the silence, of course. What must the product manager be thinking about? Surely not swimming past Neptune's cave once more to invent computer programming? Just put back the settings option per user like in OneNote, if you please.
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Mike G
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As stated, OneNote Navigation Pane View defaults to Hide All in Teams. But if the purpose of OneNote is to manage hundreds or even thousands of notes organized in various sections, it makes no sense to default to a single note that happens to be at the top of one section. It's not even the most recent note you worked on (unless you manually move it to the top)! Yet, when you set a View option, Teams overrides it and goes back to showing a single page. 🙄
New users often fail to notice the little arrow for expanding and seasoned users grow weary of having to manually expand over and over and over. PLEASE make Teams retain the user's OneNote Navigation Pane setting or, at the very least, default to the more sensible Show Sections and Pages view.
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Corrine Anderson Leonard commented
I agree. Not being able to change and SAVE the default view is ridiculous. I am new to Teams and OneNote and it took forever to figure this out. I have also made my first page of each section a READ ME file to explain how to navigate the app. FIX THIS Microsoft!
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Anonymous
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I also need the default view for OneNote to show the Sections and Pages. Since I work with a team that doesn't use OneNote regularly this is causing problems and will most likely result in me removing One Note from my MS Teams site (which is too bad since it's a great tool).
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KB
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Agreed. It's fairly confusing to users to click on the link only for OneNote to open showing just the first page of the section. I've taken to making the first page of each section being a "landing page" of sorts with an arrow pointing over the expand icon and text saying "Click the ">" to show all sections. Which is pretty jankety.
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Anonymous
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Yes add my vote.
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Anonymous
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I strongly agree with this as well. Hiding all is probably the worst default setting
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David
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Add my vote.
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Anonymous
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I agree that this needs to be addressed. I have been pushing Teams here at FSU and this is the BIGGEST complaint. I see that this has been talked about in this forum for over a year. Would anyone from MS be able to give ANY type of update?
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Peter Clark
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Please consider either accepting the change globally in Teams -> OneNote or allow for it be set.
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Toto
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I hate that even though you reset it to the non-default view, it ALWAYS goes back. Please fix this! We need to be able to reorient our views but be able to set our own defaults.
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Nate
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Yes, it is very frustrating to not be able to manage (as a team owner) which section and page are shown by default to the team members. Please make a change in this!
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Sabine
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Please make this happen. Current default to one page is limiting uptake by people new to 365, Teams, and OneNote.
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Alex
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Please make this happen
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Satu
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Actually, something's going on, I guess.. Because every now and then I can enter the page where sections and pages opens automatically when I open OneNote from Teams channel tab. In that case, there is no View > Navigation Panes selection at all in View - options available. Also the layout changes. But I do not get why OneNote opens sometimes in "old hidden way" and sometimes in "new show all" way??
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Satu
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I agree! It's much more usable if all is visible when OneNote is opened. And no jumping between "show all" and "show page under edit" while editing, please :)
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ANON
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If the team owner can set the OneNote view default that would be great. Personally, I think it should default to Reading View.