I'm telling you, the list of things that started going wrong with OneNote
after I registered the full retail version of ON 2007 is really starting
to get irritating.

Now, most of the time now when I click on a link to a page or section in
OneNote I get a dialog asking, "Do you want to open the 'FolderName'
notebook in OneNote (recommended) or just open the 'SectionName' section
from within it?" Whichever one I choose, OneNote then opens that folder
or section separately even though it is already open in another part of
OneNote. By "separately" I mean as a separate button in the Navigation
Bar instead of just jumping to the already opened section in the already
opened notebook.

I have double checked the links and they give the full path and a section
ID code. If I edit the link to remove the path to the file then the link
correctly jumps to the specified section. This tells me that the section
ID is still good which means OneNote isn't simply resorting to the
pathname because the section ID is corrupted.


However, editing the link is a bad workaround because it means I would
have to spend an additional few seconds editing each and every link as I
create it. I create a lot of links. I upgraded to OneNote 2007
specifically for the linking features. It would use up about 10% of my
time when I am doing heavy research to edit all the links I create. I
already have to do so many different workarounds that almost half of my
time spent in OneNote seems to be wasted on workarounds. At least when I
am doing heavy research or organizing my thoughts. When you are just
trying to organize your thoughts it is not good to be constantly
interrupted with doing workarounds. By the time I finish doing all the
workarounds I sometimes forget what the heck I was doing them for.

On Mar 19, 10:12 am, Grant Robertson <B...@BOGUS.com> wrote:
> I'm telling you, the list of things that started going wrong with OneNote
> after I registered the full retail version of ON 2007 is really starting
> to get irritating.
>
> Now, most of the time now when I click on a link to a page or section in
> OneNote I get a dialog asking, "Do you want to open the 'FolderName'
> notebook in OneNote (recommended) or just open the 'SectionName' section
> from within it?" Whichever one I choose, OneNote then opens that folder
> or section separately even though it is already open in another part of
> OneNote. By "separately" I mean as a separate button in the Navigation
> Bar instead of just jumping to the already opened section in the already
> opened notebook.

I have this exact same problem. Exact.

I'm going to try to learn from your experience:

I'm using the trial. I'm going to upgrade with a purchased box (buying a
key is not an option).

Is there anything you think I could do to prevent this from happening, at
the time I upgrade?

"EMRhelp.org" wrote:

> On Mar 19, 10:12 am, Grant Robertson <B...@BOGUS.com> wrote:
> > I'm telling you, the list of things that started going wrong with OneNote
> > after I registered the full retail version of ON 2007 is really starting
> > to get irritating.
> >
> > Now, most of the time now when I click on a link to a page or section in
> > OneNote I get a dialog asking, "Do you want to open the 'FolderName'
> > notebook in OneNote (recommended) or just open the 'SectionName' section
> > from within it?" Whichever one I choose, OneNote then opens that folder
> > or section separately even though it is already open in another part of
> > OneNote. By "separately" I mean as a separate button in the Navigation
> > Bar instead of just jumping to the already opened section in the already
> > opened notebook.
>
> I have this exact same problem. Exact.
>
>

In article <6D639575-7FE4-4DA5-9B67-70B2B909C09B@microsoft.com>,
YouBetcha@discussions.microsoft.com says...
> Is there anything you think I could do to prevent this from happening, at
> the time I upgrade?


The only thing I haven't tried is to completely uninstall the trial
version and install the retail version from scratch. If you haven't done
extensive modifications to the settings then this shouldn't be a problem.
However, I have and it is just such a pain to record and reset all the
settings that I haven't felt like doing it yet.

On Mar 20, 7:56 am, YouBetcha <YouBet...@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote:
> I'm going to try to learn from your experience:
>
> I'm using the trial. I'm going to upgrade with a purchased box (buying a
> key is not an option).
>
> Is there anything you think I could do to prevent this from happening, at
> the time I upgrade?

No. I never had the trial installed. I installed OneNote RTM and I
have Grant's problem. It's a OneNote problem, not a problem when
upgrading to OneNote.

In article <1174607013.703311.79040@d57g2000hsg.googlegroups. com>,
EMRhelp.org******.com says...
> No. I never had the trial installed. I installed OneNote RTM and I
> have Grant's problem. It's a OneNote problem, not a problem when
> upgrading to OneNote.
>
This is good to know. You just saved me a couple of hours.

I am going to pay close attention to this to try to figure out
patterns. This is a feature that makes me hesitate in deploying
OneNote more fully.

> I have double checked the links and they give the full path and a section
> ID code. If I edit the link to remove the path to the file then the link
> correctly jumps to the specified section. This tells me that the section
> ID is still good which means OneNote isn't simply resorting to the
> pathname because the section ID is corrupted.


Good observation.

> However, editing the link is a bad workaround because it means I would
> have to spend an additional few seconds editing each and every link as I
> create it.

One thing that is worth doublechecking when a "bad link" comes up.
(1) shut down OneNote, restart, see if the problem is still there.
(2) if the Notebook is synched, see if the LINK fails on a peer copy.
(3) shut down the entire PC and see if the bad link persists.