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After searching the net for a solution to the sudden death of my incredibly invaluable search feature on OneNote, I figured out the fix. So simple.
Control panel>>Programs>>Uninstall a program>>select Microsoft Office>>Change>>Quick Repair OR Online Repair>>Repair.
It fixed my problem completely. Hope that helps.
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Thanks a lot. I tried everything else and this simple solution actually worked. Wish I had thought of it sooner.
The onenote app was preventing me from searching all notebooks when using onenote 2013. I followed the instructions from this website: https://thomas.vanhoutte.be/miniblog/uninstall-onenote-windows-10/ My search functionality is back.
Deleting the cache worked for me right away, and it only took a few seconds.
http://kmoe13.blogspot.com/2012/11/how-to-fix-broken-search-in-microsoft.html
OneNote 2013 on Win7 x64 Ultimate
Simply writing to report that this did not work for me, though perhaps I will try it again now that I have completely rebuilt my index.
Excellent - worked for me too.