Microsoft will no longer update the OneNote 2016 app with new features. By making it available as a free download in February 2015, and now killing off the Win32 desktop version, Microsoft hinted and today confirmed that OneNote can stand on its own. Here’s a free blog post.To be clear, OneNote is still included in Office. The best part of solving this puzzling settings challenge was that I received all the screenshots included in this blog post with the following message from Colin: “Happy birthday. (Click on any of these images to see them full size.) When you open the OneNote desktop program (OneNote 2010, 2013, 2016) again, you should no longer be prompted.

(If you don’t click OK, your change will not be saved). When the message changes to “this program has all its defaults” make sure you click on OK.

In the Set Default Programs menu, locate OneNote (Desktop) and click on it.

Open the Windows 10 Settings (known as Control Panel in previous versions of Windows.) Click on the Start Button, then click on the Cog icon to open the Settings.

If you get prompted in the desktop version of OneNote for “D o you want to use this version as the default?”, choose “A sk me later”.

Slightly annoyed, we followed the instructions in the second pop-up.

It would continuously revert back to being not selected. Additionally the change to the setting would not be retained. Made that change to the option and thought the pesky pop ups would disappear. When he called me over to inquire if I was experiencing the same issue, I went and checked his OneNote Settings as I knew where the option to make OneNote desktop the default version lived. When he’d attempt to select an option, the program would not remember his selection. My itgroove colleague Colin Phillips, author of the SharePoint MMMan blog, was experiencing an odd behaviour with OneNote 2013 (desktop) after upgrading the operating system on his Surface Pro to Windows 10.Įvery time he opened OneNote, a “do you want to use this version as the default?” message would pop-up. UPDATE – June 1, 2017: Some small wording changes and an extra screenshot have been added to make the instructions as clear as possible for all readers.

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