This is a very important feature for us who use OneNote as an electronic lab notebook in order to have compliance with FDA regulations and evidence for patent claims.

My primary pain point in coming over from Evernote is the inability to sort pages by date modified! Seems like a pretty basic feature....

When uploading pdf printout from mac (or iOS), pdf are not displayed properly and they result blurry at reasonable zoom levels. This does not happen when uploading them from the built-in OneNote for Windows10.
Note: this is not a problem in the way pdf are shown, only in the way they are uploaded. See the following post: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/msoffice_onenote-mso_mac/blurry-pdf-printout-in-onenote-2016/e7cfa61a-52ba-4942-920a-f543c516363c

A Dark Theme / Night Mode would allow the user to rest his eyes while reading or writing, during night or day.
A black background with light grey font would help everyone during the long-time periods of usage of OneNote.

Detect code samples and display in different font and colour

Hi there! I love the options for the different paper styles for notes, but I wish there was an option to set the default (much like we can set default font and size). It would also be great to be able to apply defaults, or any type of change to all pages in a section, if not a whole notebook.

Thanks!

OneNote for Mac should have the ability to crop pasted/inserted images. Not some lengthy workaround mentioned on your website or having to use the OneNote online version. It seems odd that OneNote would have a fancy capability to pull/search text from images but not have the basic ability to crop the photo.

You can set a default proofing language that will be applied to all future pages.

I have not used OneNote for years until I heard about the awesome capabilities of Ink (thanks to an email from my 365 subscription). It is very disappointing that these features are not available on Mac. Drawing is great but please provide us with the ink to text and ink to math functions available to Windows users.

Add the ability to be able to convert nots taken on the iPad pro to type text on the One note for Mac. It is on the WIndows version and now you can draw and write with the pen on the iPad pro, you should be able to convert on the mac version.

Currently a checkbox can be either checked or not, but sometimes additional states are needed (ie: in-progress or invalid). There are also alternate types of checkboxes indicating "priorities." It would be nice if this was expanded such that one could right-click on a box and change its state (new (empty-box), complete (checked), in-progress (a -), invalid (X) and priority (normal, high, low, etc). This could be combined with an enhanced version of custom tags (not yet available on Mac) to give more functionality across all platforms.

When I draw or highlight something, it doesn't stay anchored to the part of the text where it was drawn. I want OneNote to do this. Given that OneNote is being used for university notes, this would particularly crucial if I'm going back all the time in my document to edit notes.

This would probably require the ability to group images/drawings first. That feature is present on Windows. Why not Mac?

In OneNote for Windows can insert an existing Excel spreadsheet to a page then allowing you to view and update the spreadsheet from within OneNote. If working between Windows pcs and MacBooks this functionality is critical to usability so would be huge benefit if this function was provided in Mac version

I can't use this unless there is feature parity on all platforms. If it happens on Windows, then it better happen on Mac and iOS as well. I use OneNote on Windows for bullet journalling using multiple different tags. On iOS, there is only one tag, the checkbox. I gather the Mac tag implementation is also deficient. This is a specific example of general issue with MS apps on Mac and iOS.

Ability to sort sections, pages, and tags...

Instead of asking for searching speed to be improved in OneNote, I think it would be even better if I can just search for onenote content within the Alfred app search box. That way I don't have to wait for Onenote app to open, click on the search options to set range, then wait even longer just to see many search results that aren't even relevant...