Moving OneNote Notebooks from one account to another

Here are some instructions for "transferring" information between a 365 "Business" (like 365 Education) and 365 Family/Personal. But you can use the instructions to move data between 2 365 Education accounts too

Transfer Business / Transfer from Business to Consumer 365 accounts

Office 365 “Business” (including Education) and 365 “Consumer” (Family/Personal) subscription accounts are 2 totally separate business “silos” at MS. The emal account accounts used to “register” and control the subscriptions both work in “Outlook”. Unfortunately although they have the same name, the 2 Outlook products use different underlying technology.

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MS has not bothered to create an automated process for moving emails and onedrive files from the "old" account to the "new" one. You have to do it "manually".

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Switch from an Office 365 for home to a business subscription – Transfer Business Data

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/switch-from-an-office-365-for-home-to-a-business-subscription-9322ffb8-a35d-4407-8ebe-ed6ea0859b9f

These 2 licenses belong to different classes of subscription. There is no easy way to migrate from one to the other. They use different technology for OneDrive and Outlook. Transferring information between one type and the  other is a manual process.

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Perhaps you’ve started your Microsoft 365 experience with a home plan, such as Microsoft 365 Family or Microsoft 365 Personal, and now you’ve started a business in your home. Or maybe you’re a home user, but your needs have changed. Whatever the reason, this article will walk you through how to move from your Microsoft 365 Family subscription to a business subscription.

Understanding the key differences between home and business plans

Understanding when you might get a refund for remaining time on your original subscription

(Each of the steps below are expanding headings on the web page)

Step 1: Buy a Microsoft 365 for business plan

Step 2: Create user accounts

Step 3: (Optional) Users migrate Outlook information to their new Microsoft 365 for business email account

Step 4: (Optional) Users migrate their OneDrive files to OneDrive for Business

Step 5: Cancel your Microsoft 365 Family subscription

Hi Angela.Bragg,

Try this to copy your notebook to a different account in MAC, you can try the following steps:  1. Add services (you can click the account avatar icon in the bottom left corner, click “+”, then you can add a service.).

2. Create a new blank notebook in your another account. 3. Click on the Notebooksto show all opening notebooks, then you can see Add notebook option on the lower left of OneNote screen. 4.Click the Add notebookoption, Open-> select the added account and select the newly created notebook.

5. Move or copy notes in OneNote for Mac to your new notebook.

Additionally, you may also take steps in the similar thread as reference:  Transferring OneNote from one account to another on Mac.

Best Regards

Waqas Muhammad

Yes and I'm still not understanding the instructions.

If I'm not mistaken, the walk around option requires me to have One Note for Windows but as I have already specified I have a MacBook and do not have access to a windows computer. I really don't understand how its fair that this can be done on a windows computer but not a mac.

The whole instructions seem very confusing and contradictory as they are not written with clear instructions. I'm really disappointed.

Hi Angela.Bragg,

Have you checked above reply? Do you need further assistance?

Best Regards,

Waqas Muhammad

Hi Angela.Bragg,

As per your description, I understand you want to move all your OneNote Notebooks from your old university OneDrive account to the OneDrive provided by the new current university and you are using the Mac at your end.

First, to avoid any data loss when migrating, please back up all your notes in the local or other places (this step is vital to save your notes for any unexpected behavior happens on your side), and  I’m afraid that OneNote for Mac does not have such feature to move your notebooks to another account, sorry for the inconvenience caused, however, as a workaround, to transfer your notebooks across accounts on mac, you may open the notebook you would like to transfer and a new notebook that locates in OneDrive of another account. at the same time in OneNote for Mac. Then right click each section in the notebook and copy the section to the new notebook.

More details workaround please refer what Chitrahaas Nalla MSFT provided in this thread.

I appreciate your patience and understanding.

Best Regards

Waqas Muhammad