[dba-Tech] Office 365's version of OneNote is horrid

John Colby jwcolby at gmail.com
Thu Jan 17 12:43:22 CST 2019


But is it an EXTERNAL DRIVE?  He specifically said that.

On 1/17/2019 12:21 PM, Susan Harkins wrote:
> I don't use OneNote, but I do run Office 365. When I open OneNote, I still
> have an Open option on the File tab that lets be browse my local system's
> folders. You don't see that?
>
> Susan H.
>
>
> I recently subscribed to Office 365 for a year, and while I like most of it,
> I despise the changes made to OneNote. I have trying without success to open
> existing notebooks stored on an external drive. I cannot find the command to
> do this. Double-clicking on said files in Explorer doesn't work, and
> apparently the File Open command has vanished. I'm thinking that I have no
> choice but to re-install Office 2007, which knows how to find files.
> Please advise, if you know how to perform this simple task, inform me,
> because it is driving me nuts that I cannot get to my previous files.
> Frankly, i would love to have a discussion with the designers of Outlook
> 365 to learn what they were thinking when they omitted obvious and essential
> commands -- or worse, maybe they exist but are so well-hidden that a OneNote
> expert cannot find them. Short of re-installing an old version of Office, I
> haven't thought my way out of this dilemma. If you have any suggestions I
> would be grateful.
>
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