Today, we’d like to walk you through some of the work we’ve done to bring your favorite features from OneNote 2016 to OneNote for Windows 10, highlight some of the capabilities that are only available in the Windows 10 app, and give you a sneak peek at a few of the improvements coming this year. Your opinions, feature requests, and, yes, complaints have been critical in helping us shape the current experience. We've been listening to your feedback about what you like-and what you don't-and working hard to address it in the product. For more details, please refer to this FAQ. We’ll continue to offer support, bug fixes, and security updates for OneNote 2016 for the duration of the Office 2016 support lifecycle, which runs through October 2020 for mainstream support and October 2025 for extended support.
If you currently use OneNote 2016, you won’t notice any changes when you update to Office 2019. OneNote 2016 is optionally available for anyone with Office 365 or Office 2019, but it will no longer be installed by default. While we’re no longer adding new features to OneNote 2016, it’ll still be there if you need it. If so, you’re more than welcome to continue using OneNote 2016. Maybe you rely on a feature we don’t yet support on Windows 10 (please let us know using the Feedback Hub), or you don’t want to store your notebooks in the cloud.
We’d love for you to start using OneNote for Windows 10 today, however we know some of you might not be ready yet. In fact, over the last year and a half we've added more than 100 of your favorite OneNote 2016 features based on your feedback (thank you!), with more improvements on the way including tags and better integration with Office documents. You don’t need to worry about being on the latest version since it’s always up-to-date via the Microsoft Store, and it lets us deliver updates faster than ever before. Why OneNote for Windows 10? The app has improved performance and reliability, and it’s powered by a brand new sync engine (which we’re also bringing to web, Mac, iOS, and Android). We took that feedback to heart, and over the last few years we’ve been focused on making OneNote for Windows 10 the best version of OneNote on Windows.īeginning with the launch of Office 2019 later this year, OneNote for Windows 10 will replace OneNote 2016 as the default OneNote experience for both Office 365 and Office 2019. In spending time with you, we heard a recurring theme: you want a single version of OneNote on Windows that combines all the benefits of the modern Windows 10 app with the depth and breadth of capabilities in the older OneNote 2016. We’re incredibly lucky to have millions of passionate OneNote users around the globe, and we love learning how we can help you remember, think, and organize better. Please check out this article for the latest OneNote announcement. The version number of the new app should be 17.7870.57621.0, and you can download it here.The below article is out of date as of Nov 4 th 2019. The company said that it will issue a fix as soon as possible, but remember, this was a known issue two weeks ago when it was released to Insiders.
Microsoft said that if you have Malwarebytes 3.0 installed and OneNoteIm.exe has been added as an application to Shield for Malwarebytes, you may experience crashes. There's also one known issue with today's update. This seems like an odd claim, given that Office 365 is also updated monthly, and most of the features in today's update are already available in OneNote 2016. Interestingly, the release notes actually point out that while OneNote 2016 and OneNote for Windows 10 are very similar, there is one key difference, and that is that OneNote for Windows 10 is regularly updated with new features. Tired of plain old bullets? Spice up your notes with dashes, arrows, diamonds, and more. Grab the paragraph handles and reorder or collapse text on the page. Put tables, note containers, pictures, and shapes into your notes and then arrange which are in front and which are behind. Quickly add a new page below the currently selected one, rather than at the bottom of the page list. Just right-click and save it to a location you specify. Save your favorite picture or an important file outside of OneNote. Use the Shapes gallery to insert perfect circles, squares, arrows and more.
Password protectionĪdd a password to a section to keep your notes safe from prying eyes. Simply click and drag a notebook to reorder it in the list.
Here's the full changelog: Reorder your notebooks In fact, it's the same update that Slow ring Windows Insiders got two weeks ago. Microsoft updated its OneNote for Windows 10 app today, introducing a number of new features.