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

[Arthur Fuller]

Hmm... it never occurred to me that office wouldn't be able to see an
external drive. I will try copying the files from the external to the SSD
and see if that works. Thanks for the suggestion.

On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 1:43 PM John Colby <jwcolby at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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Arthur