Where your OneNote notebook actually “lives”

It can be tricky when you have many notebooks to keep track of where they all live. And nobody wants to be maintaining multiple copies of the same notebook in a save-as nightmare.

Take the time to learn where your notebook is actually saved, and move it if that’s not where you want it without needing to create a copy or break your client’s cached connection.

  1. Open the Notebook in your OneNote client (desktop app)
  2. Click “File” in the upper left
  3. Note the location that matches Notebook name

If you “Share on Web or Network” you’re actually moving the Notebook and its location will be updated immediately. You can still use your Desktop/client OneNote application to edit as usual. Others will just be able to access it now as well.

Note: If you’re moving your Notebook to SharePoint, make sure you save to a complete URL location like above and not a “synced”/OneDrive for Business-type location mapped locally.

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