

We’ll continue to offer support, bug fixes, and security updates for OneNote 2016 for the duration of the Office 2016 support lifecycle, which runs through October 2020 for mainstream support and October 2025 for extended support.” “If you currently use OneNote 2016, you won’t notice any changes when you update to Office 2019. “OneNote 2016 is optionally available for anyone with Office 365 or Office 2019, but it will no longer be installed by default,” William Devereux of the OneNote team wrote in a blog post. So what will happen to the existing version of OneNote, OneNote 2016? Microsoft executives said they will hold off on adding new features, but neither will it discontinue the software, either. Microsoft said it plans to keep migrating features from one app to the other, including the ability to insert and search for tags, create page templates, as well as preview other Office files, right within OneNote. Since then, OneNote for Windows 10 has added some of the top features of the Windows 10 app, including perhaps the best feature of the note-taking tool: audio that’s synced to your notes. It is a ringing endorsement for OneNote for Windows 10, whose UI overhaul in 2017 migrated the pages and sections to the left-hand rail. The installer will automatically detect if you’re currently running a 32-bit or 64-bit version of Microsoft 365 or Office 2019 and it will match your OneNote installation to the correct version.Microsoft has quietly worked to improve the basic OneNote app within Windows 10 to the point where it has received an unexpected show of support: the OneNote 2016 app for Office 365 is to be put on hold, and the OneNote app already within Windows 10 will replace it within Office 2019. When finished downloading, double-click the downloaded file to begin Setup. If you need to install or reinstall the OneNote desktop app on Windows (formerly called “OneNote 2016”), do the following: As of March 2020, the OneNote desktop app is once again installed alongside the Word, PowerPoint, and Excel desktop apps. OneNote was previously excluded from Office 2019 installations. For more information, see What's the difference between the OneNote versions? IssueĪfter previously installing Office 2019 on a PC running any edition of Windows 10, OneNote appears to be missing from the list of installed desktop applications.

Throughout this article, “OneNote” refers to the desktop version (previously called ”OneNote 2016”), and “OneNote for Windows 10” refers to the Microsoft Store app that’s available only on Windows 10.

Note: Our product names for OneNote on Windows have recently changed.
