Move OneNote Notebook to a New Microsoft Subscription

Introduction

You may need to move a OneNote notebook from one Microsoft tenancy to another. For example from an @slcu.cam.ac.uk account to @cam or from a work to a personal Microsoft subscription. 

Requirements

OneNote from Office 2016 or 2019 or Office 365 should be installed on your computer.

Instructions

  1. Open up your OneNote notbook in the OneNote application on your computer and make sure that all the changes have synchronised.
    1. Go to File, and on the Info tab click the View Sync Status button
    2. A window will pop up and in the right indicate if any are not up to date. You can click the Sync Now button to force it to sync
  2. Click File Export > Notebook > OneNote Package and export the notebook. Name your file something meaningful and save it on to your local disk (e.g. c:\temp)
  3. Close your notebook by clicking File then choose the notebook and click the little arrow under Settings > Close
  4. Sign out of your first Microsoft account
    1. In OneNote click on your name at the top right of the window. When you do, a window will pop up an option to Switch Account. Click on that
    2. Sign in to your other account - most often it will be your @cam account for which you use your Raven CRSid and password.
  5. Close the OneNote application
  6. Find the file you saved in step 2 and double click on it
    1. This should open that file up in OneNote.
    2. You will be prompted to give the notebook a name and where to save it. Name it as you wish and save it to your @cam OneDrive folder
  7. Click File > Share > type the name of the notebook you used in step 7 > Move Notebook.
  8. Start syncing the file by repeating step 1 a and b