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Posted by MadaboutDana
Mar 20, 2014 at 11:29 AM
It must be said, there are various ways round the MS restrictions, for example by creating notebooks from other OneNote clients (e.g. Outline+ or MobileNoter). You can do that from iOS, too (the iOS version of Outline+ is very modestly priced, and happily interacts with OneDrive, as well as Dropbox et al).
I’ve just installed OneNote 2013, which has promptly replaced OneNote 2010. It’s quite happily creating notebooks, in fact, but maybe that’s because I had a fully paid-up version of OneNote 2010?
I’m glad to see they haven’t further restricted the Windows desktop version’s functionality: it still creates mini-outlines! In fact, the whole outlining thing has been slightly refined, with a variety of new tiny mouse-over icons and a new context menu.
So I’m a happy bunny!
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Mar 20, 2014 at 01:22 PM
MadaboutDana wrote:
>I’ve just installed OneNote 2013, which has promptly replaced OneNote
>2010. It’s quite happily creating notebooks, in fact, but maybe that’s
>because I had a fully paid-up version of OneNote 2010?
I have a fully paid up version of ON10, but I was still given the message I needed to subscribe to Office in order to continue to use my locally stored notebooks with ON13. I believe that’s really the only significant restriction with ON13, but for me that’s a big deal. I seem to be able to use ON10 without any major issues, although when I use the ON10 screen clipper, it opens ON13 and saves the image there. I am a little afraid to uninstall ON13, because I’m not sure how that might affect ON10.
And I will agree that ON13, for the brief time I was using it, seemed like an excellent app… cleaner than ON10.
One thing I’m unsure of, and maybe someone here knows the answer: If you subscribe to Office, can you save notebooks locally on the Mac and iPad, or are you restricted to SkyDrive or OneDrive storage?
Steve Z.
Posted by Graham Rhind
Mar 20, 2014 at 01:48 PM
Stephen Zeoli wrote:
>One thing I’m unsure of, and maybe someone here knows the answer: If you
>subscribe to Office, can you save notebooks locally on the Mac and iPad,
>or are you restricted to SkyDrive or OneDrive storage?
I don’t know about Macs or iPads, Steve, (I wouldn’t touch the things), but I subscribe to Office 365 and I can save my files anywhere - there’s no restriction to SkyDrive only.
Graham
Posted by MadaboutDana
Mar 20, 2014 at 02:48 PM
Strange: I have a mixture of local and OneDrive notebooks, and haven’t received any such message (so far!).
I’ll let you know if I do!
And as Graham says - despite Microsoft’s efforts to persuade you there is only One True OneDrive, you can save Office files anywhere you like.
Posted by MadaboutDana
Mar 20, 2014 at 02:54 PM
Ha! No sooner had I written that than I tried to create a new page in one of my local notebooks, and sure enough, the little message ‘Subscribe to Office to continue using this notebook’ popped up. Evil! Evil!
Actually, it appears that if I move the notebook to OneDrive, I can continue using it, but I don’t want to do that.
And there’s an amusing side. The page I’ve just tried to create does appear, doesn’t get deleted, and can be edited. So the little message box is lying! It’s just a PITA.
So to sum up: the message appears, but it’s lying:
you can EITHER continue to use your notebooks locally (just dismiss the lying message whenever you create a new page),
OR you can move them to OneDrive (without necessarily subscribing to Office).
Weird. Only Microsoft…