Windows 10: How to include OneNote for Desktop text in the Win10 search results

Hello,Is it possible to have content in my OneNote files show up as results when using the Win10 search feature? I do find the content when inside OneNote and use the "Find" feature.Regards George

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Onenote - search function quit working.

Hi,

Did you make any changes prior to this issue?

Is this specific to OneNote or the same persists with word?

I suggest you to try performing Windows app troubleshooter and check if it helps.

Follow the below steps:

• 
  Type troubleshooting in the
  Search area on the taskbar.
  
• 
  Click on View all on the left panel of the Troubleshooting Windows.
  
• 
  Select Windows store Apps.
  
• 
  Follow the on screen instruction.
  

Hope it helps. Revert to us with the results, will be glad to assist you.

Thank you.

 

OneNote "Sync Conflicts"

Hi Tom,



Sync conflicts error shown in OneNote can be resolved by using OneNote desktop client. To stop seeing this error, can you follow the below steps:

1. Open the page which is having conflicts in OneNote desktop client or in Internet explorer
2. Open the page in which this error is shown
3. On the top of the page there will be a text bar shown. Pressing on the text bar will show conflicting pages for this page.
4. Delete the conflicting page by selecting the page and right clicking on it.
5. Sync the changes from desktop to server
6. After the above steps, open the page in Mobile and tap on "refresh" to get the changes made on the server.

After step 6 is done, sync conflicting error message should be stopped from prompting.

Hope this helps!

 

Searching Handwritten Notes in OneNote for Windows

Hi Tink_808



Refer to Search for notes in OneNote for Windows 10 and also based on my test, the handwriting
should be searchable in both OneNote for Windows or OneNote 2016.
However, some of them may not be searchable immediately, you should wait for a little bit time for giving the result.



As a workaround, you can also choose to convert the handwritten Notes to text. You can refer to this article:

Convert handwriting to text.



I hope the information may help you.

In the meantime, please provide the information below for our more investigation:

1. Your OneNote for Windows version.
2. Re-open the notebook to see if there’s any improvement.
3. Make new handwriting to see the result.
4. How long has the handwriting been existing but not searchable?

Thank you,

Clark