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How do you open an existing Notebook on OneNote Android mobile app?

Anonymous
2023-04-02T00:19:38+00:00

How do you open a Notebook on OneNote Android mobile app? All I can see is Create New Notebook. I want open an existing Notebook. I have been all over the App and have not been able to figure out how to do it. For the love of good UX, where's the Open Notebook menu, button, etc?

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  1. Anonymous
    2023-04-27T11:53:56+00:00

    This is definitely a new problem. Previous versions of OneNote allowed you to open an existing notebook. The most recent versions don't. It's a little mystifying since this is a fairly obvious flaw. You can create new notebooks, but if you move to a new device, you can't open the notebooks you've created.

    Please fix ASAP, as currently this previously great tool is useless.

    To anyone affected, there is a workaround. If you open the web version of OneNote and open a notebook, it will open it in the OneNote app, at which point it will persist.

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-05-04T12:33:25+00:00

    Another workaround is to find and open Notebook from OneDrive android app (be default all your notebooks are in the Documents folder in OneDrive).

    It will open selected notebook in the OneNote app, at which point that notebook will persist and will be available in OneNote app opened notebooks list.

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-10-01T09:37:23+00:00

    Same issue here.

    I think everything works fine as long as you use default storage on OneDrive.

    So maybe it is not that Microsoft doesn't care about the issue but they prefer to enforce users to stick with their whole ecosystem.

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-07-14T18:15:17+00:00

    Amazing to see that this issue is still not fixed....

    I shared my notebooks with my own mail address and opened the other notebooks via those links in the emails... just another workaround we users have to come up with because nobody seems to care about this topic...

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-04-03T19:07:28+00:00

    Hi Carl Smith2 ,

    Thank you for posting to the Microsoft community. Based on the description,  you need help on how to open an existing Notebook on OneNote using Android mobile app. I'm glad you took the time to consider this for us so we can help you figure it out for you.

    Before anything else, let me ask you the following questions below so that I fully understand the problem.

    1. Have you tried using this app on a phone before?
    2. What seems toe be the problem when using it to your phone? 
    3. Did you receive any error message?

    You may check the link below that could possibly fix the issue.

    Microsoft OneNote for Android - Microsoft Support

    Troubleshoot read-only notes in OneNote for Android - Microsoft Support

    We look forward to your response. Truly Yours,FatimaMicrosoft Moderator

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