Trying to create a page template, but missing options? New to OneNote/Microsoft
I'm looking in youtube videos and everyone has more options than what I'm seeing. I'm signed into my account and have a trial for now but I should have full use of it? I just left Mac for PC as of yesterday so please tell me what I'm missing here.
Screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/KqUey
Posted Jan 7, 2018, 6:36 PM UTC · edited
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TL;DR: Lesson 1 about PC: Get out of the Microsoft Store, and stay out. You need Onenote DESKTOP, which can be downloaded from https://www.onenote.com/download/win32/x86/en-US
You have installed Onenote from the Microsoft Store. Microsoft doesn't properly support its own store, just like all other developers for Windows, and so most of what's on there are crippled "Universal Windows System" apps that don't do what you think they should. I'm not going to lie: on the three Windows 10 machines I use (and the four more that I administer for family), I use Microsoft Store for exactly nothing.
You've got the UWS Onenote; it's designed for tablets and phones and runs on Windows 10. It's also a strange and imperfect interface, and I doubt that most of us on this sub even acknowledge that it exists.
Whenever downloading for Windows 10, you must look for "desktop" versions of apps and download ".exe" or ".msi" installation files. Going to https://www.onenote.com/download offers links for the "Windows Store" (same difference; they keep rebranding, and again not even Microsoft gives a crap about their own store well enough to keep the other divisions up to date) and "Windows Desktop". You want the latter.
The only place that my hatred for the Microsoft store may not apply is if you're looking for Xbox Live compatible games. Then you do seem to need to download from the Store. Anything else that is worth installing from the Store has a desktop version, and just stick with that version.
Hope that helps. Welcome to Windows :)
Actually, Desktop version had been feature locked for over a year. Only the UWP or Windows 10 version has seen active development since then. Yes a few things are only in desktop version, but every month brings new features to UWP like ruler and several in mid December. Some features ONLY available in UWP version!
To each his own. The true beauty of Windows - it caters to all tastes.
--edit: also, I acknowledge that the correct term is Universal Windows Platform and thank you for reminding me. "UWP" is the far more polite way to describe apps from the Store.
Apologies for the delayed response, but thanks a bunch downloading now. Is it the same for Word and Excel? All this was automatically on the computer. Havent used a PC in like 10 years so I'm not completely familiar yet.
I haven't tried UWP Word/Excel; I use desktop everything as I said. I wouldn't mess with it yet.
Self-fulfilling prophesy: the Windows App Store is full of garbage, so users don't use it, so good apps don't get put on it, so it stays full of garbage.