Category: OneNote

I experienced an issue where some Windows 10 updates broke my favourite screen clipping tool, OneNote. Typically I’m using it all day long with the Winkey+Shift+S shortcut to send screenshots to OneNote. Is yours broken too, perhaps by Windows replacing it with the built in clipping tool? Here’s how I fixed mine:

Disable the Global Windows + S Shortcut Key

Another workaround is to disable the global shortcut key Windows + S. Follow this how-to article or make the registry changes using command line:

1. Press the Windows key + X to open the WinX menu, and then click “Command Prompt” or “Windows PowerShell“.
2. Copy the following command and then paste it into the command line. Press Enter.
   reg.exe add HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced /v DisabledHotkeys /t REG_SZ /d S /f
3. Reboot your computer and OneNote screen clipping shortcut key should resume to work.

from https://www.top-password.com/blog/fix-onenote-screen-clipping-shortcut-not-working-in-windows-10/

By using a shared folder on OneDrive, you can Copy an entire OneNote notebook from one user to another.

Here’s how:

1. Let’s call the user hosting the notebook OriginalUser, and the account we are going to copy to TargetUser
2. In OneDrive web app on the OriginalUser account, share a folder to TargetUser
3. Confirm you have access to the shared folder by logging in to the OneDrive web app for TargetUser. Select the folder and “Add to my OneDrive”
4. Now, back in the OneDrive web app for OriginalUser, select a Notebook and Copy it to the folder you shared with TargetUser. Wait for it to complete copying…
5. In the OneDrive web app for TargetUser, navigate to the shared folder and click to open the ‘copied’ Notebook in the OneNote web app
6. Wait for the opening process to complete (this may take a while)
7. Rename the Notebook on the TargetUser OneDrive web app
8. Move to desired, non-shared folder in the TargetUser OneDrive. You will receive this message, and you have to press “Move Anyway”