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.
Darren
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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
1566 comments
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Monique
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Just need to be able to share a section! Not entire book! Seems like we have a lot of votes here, and these are just from the people who bothered to dig further into it. I think we all know there's going to be a lot more people out there who also need this feature.
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Anonymous
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I'd be interested to know which other services people are using instead of OneNote for collaboration, seeing that they have not responded to this issue. Looking for a service with offline syncing, cross-platform, real-time collaboration, and an organised 'notebook' format (not Google docs, which only ticks off two of those)
For those who've moved to Evernote, have you found anything particularly lacking in it compared to OneNote? -
Anonymous
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This is crazy. Have to look for a different platform.
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Anonymous
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It would be very helpful to share a section rather than a whole notebook. Then we could organize weekly meetings within a notebook and share agenda with specific attendees of each meeting.
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Anonymous
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Being able to share a particular section would be a great benefit rather than sharing the whole notebook.
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Erick M.
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I'm just amazed that OneNote still doesn't allow to share a section or a page from my notes with my coworkers, it should be one, if not the most, basic thing an effective and collaborative business tool should have, without it its just a nice place to storage your notes but nothing more.
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Anonymous
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removing this feature was a big mistake. I use this with my executive and his assistant. some private matters should be kept private without having to make my exec enter an additional password. Looking for another platform. bummer.
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Thiago Alegre
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Not being able to share a single section with collaborators diminish the usability of a notebook, which is perfect for organising a topic in a single place. An work around that Microsoft might want to try it to be able to group different notebooks.
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Chis Hilger
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WIthout page and section sharing capabilities, OneNote is a useful, but not essential collaboration tool. Please prioritize the development of this capability.
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Niels Verhoeven
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I'm a Microsoft fan and I love the products, but one of your statements is that the most requested features by the community will get more attention. So I do think it's odd that since this suggestions outnumbers all other feedback for OneNote by at least 2000 votes still hasn't got an update since over 2 years ago. At least some feedback like we're thinking about it or we won't be working on this any time soon because of... reasons would be nice.
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Tim Jasper
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July 11th, 2020 --- 6 years and counting...
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Anonymous
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That's a pile of bull. "this first step didn’t satisfy the needs of our customers", really ? As a Project Manager, I absolutely need the ability to share just one page (e.g. meeting notes) with the project team and external resources / customers, without having to grant them access to the entire notebook full of sensitive project information, financials, brainstorming, etc.
Removing this very important feature severely limits usability of Onenote in the real world environment.
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Tim Jasper
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Seriously Microsoft! WHAT ARE YOU DOING ABOUT THIS?! How can anyone use this tool collaboratively if you can't share sections and pages. Have you thought of using virtual notes? ie Allowing sections or notes to be virtually nested in a different notebook that is then shared. DO SOMETHING! 6,484 votes and counting!
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Anonymous commented
I can't believe ALL these YEARS later, and this feature is STILL not available!
FYI - This USED to be a THING, but was REMOVED in 2016.
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Emanuel Heusser
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How shall one cooperate with others without sharing his notes? Wheter at work or in private: Sharing is required to collaborate. And giving edit permission to all of my coworkers to all of my notes is simply not an alternative. Also sharing a dead copy is a pretty ugly workaround. The lack of this feature makes so many use cases impossible!
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Peter Groovy
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Please, we really need this feature.
Thank you, a lot of people need this. -
John
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The ability to share a section or individual pages is a critical need for OneNote
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Jacob
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This really needs to be a feature that's brought back. The whole community is asking for it and for people who work different projects within different departments, it makes OneNote less organized. Should be easier to use, not harder to use.
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Anonymous
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It would be amazing if we could control the access via security
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Girik
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I can't believe that this feature is not enabled. This is such a heavily request feature. Please enable this. Absolutely insane.