Ability to share individual sections or pages (instead of entire notebooks)

Vote for this if you want to be able to share an individual section or page with other users, instead of only being able to share an entire notebook.

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Darren shared this idea · July 10, 2014 · Flag idea as inappropriate… · Admin →

AdminOneNote Team (User Researcher, OneNote Team) responded · April 18, 2018

Shared Links to Single Pages of Notes is being removed

We recently removed the ability to share single pages of notes. The previous single-page sharing implementation from personal OneDrive notebooks was our initial attempt to begin building out the larger feature set. However, this first step didn’t satisfy the needs of our customers and, compared to full notebook sharing, usage of the limited page sharing feature was very low. The technical path we need to take to build out the full OneNote page sharing experience requires us to deprecate the previous functionality until comprehensive work on these feature improvements can be completed.

What happens to page links that I’ve already shared with other people?

Previously shared links to single pages of notes will automatically expire as of June 15, 2018. After this date, recipients of shared page links will no longer be able to view these pages, unless a recipient has already been given access to the full notebook containing a previously shared page. Notebook owners can restore access to any previously shared pages by newly sharing the full notebook with collaborators. Alternately, you can create a separate notebook that contains copies of only those pages that you want to share, and then invite others to that separate notebook.
We apologize for any inconvenience that this feature deprecation may cause.

For more information, please go to this support article titled – Share a page of notes or an entire notebook from OneNote for Windows 10. https://support.office.com/en-us/article/share-a-page-of-notes-or-an-entire-notebook-from-onenote-for-windows-10-d4a74a14-44a3-411e-8fb5-06e73ddf047f?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US

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AdminOneNote Team (User Researcher, OneNote Team) responded · April 10, 2018

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AdminOneNote Team (User Researcher, OneNote Team) responded · March 21, 2018

Feedback received. We’re taking another close look at this functionality to see what’s working well and what we can do better. Sharing is important and we absolutely need to ensure a great experience for everyone, regardless of platform. Back with more when we can, stay tuned!

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AdminOneNote Team (User Researcher, OneNote Team) responded · October 20, 2017

We are please to inform you that this feature was added to OneNote for Windows 10 as part of the November 2016 update. Also, as part of the September 2017 update, you should be able to share links directly to paragraphs.

For more details on that please visit:
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/What-s-new-in-OneNote-for-Windows-10-1477d5de-f4fd-4943-b18a-ff17091161ea?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US&ocmsassetID=1477d5de-f4fd-4943-b18a-ff17091161ea#Audience=Everyone

Thank you for all your comments and feedback in helping us make OneNote better for everyone to use.

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AdminOneNote Team (User Researcher, OneNote Team) responded · August 17, 2016

We’ve heard you loud and clear! We’re working to bring page-level and section-level sharing to OneNote. Today, we started shipping the first piece of the puzzle — the feature will roll out gradually in the next 30 days. Customers using the OneNote for Windows 10 app will see a new option in the “Share” pane which lets them create a web URL for individual pages. You can share that URL with anyone, even those who don’t have OneNote or a Microsoft account, and they can view that page in their web browser. This feature works with any OneNote notebook stored on OneDrive and currently only supports read-only links (recipients won’t be able to edit the page). Thank you for your feedback thus far, and please respond to this poll to inform our next feature towards this UserVoice request!

What’s the most important next feature? (Pick only 1)
• Edit support for shared pages (share from OneNote for Windows 10, recipients can edit in OneNote Online)
• Section sharing (share from OneNote for Windows 10, recipients can view in OneNote Online)
• Ability to create sharing links for SharePoint/OneDrive for Business pages
• Ability to create sharing links from other clients (not just OneNote for Windows 10): OneNote Online, Mac, iOS, Android
• Ability for recipients to view pages in other clients (not just OneNote Online): OneNote for Windows 10, Mac, iOS, Android

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Omeed Chandra responded · July 18, 2014

Thanks for voting for this suggestion! We can’t make any promises at this time, but we are definitely considering this feature and would love to hear more about how you would use it and why it’s important to you. If you haven’t done so already, please feel free to add a comment with this information.

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