OneNote in O365 – seems I need to “download” every page to be able to search?

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Just moved from Office 2019 Pro Plus to Office 365 – and have noticed something odd with OneNote.

One of the primary reasons I love OneNote so much is that lightning fast search it has – but in this new installation – while I am able to connect to my “OneDrive” based notebooks with no issues – and “sync” appears to have “synced” – everytime I go to search something that I KNOW is on a page in a notebook somewhere in here – the search results come back blank.

Then I go to OneNote on my phone – enter the same search criteria and there it is!

I can easily see the actual page/location of the search item on OneNote on my phone and then go to the same location in that Notebook in OneNote (desktop) and click on the same page – usually – the page tab is grey (like it’s just a placeholder or something) and only when I actually click on the page – does OneNote show a quick flash of “….LOADING” and then the content comes down (presumably for good?)

What am I missing here?

Do I really need to click on every page I ever created in every notebook get a local searchable copy?

Appreciate any updates.

S

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SonicMojo wrote:

Do I really need to click on every page I ever created in every notebook get a local searchable copy?

I think the alternative is to right-click on
C:\Users\[name]\OneDrive\Documents\OneNote Notebooks
and select “Always keep on this device”.

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That would make sense – if the actual notebooks were locally on Onedrive. But there are not:

All I have “locally” is a shortcut and the “Quick Notes.one” notebook.

Neither of which matter in the grand scheme of things.

When I access my actual OneNote “Personal” notebook – OneNote goes out here to get it (x inserted over real address):

https://onedrive.live.com/view.aspx?resid=AD7xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx8&id=documents

S

 

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