
In theory, however, any other application may also write into it. There are also special application folders where programs store their settings, for example.

There are various system folders, some of them hidden, into which programs can only write if the user is logged in with administrator rights. Under Windows, for historical reasons, there are no file directories that are exclusive to one particular application. So why don’t they fix it? Because it’s not a bug, but a restriction of the respective operating system (or the UWP architecture in the case of the Windows 10 app). This seems to be a bug in the respective OneNote versions because it obviously works well in OneNote 2016 for Windows. Objects are text paragraphs, images and embedded files. That’s because OneNote only allows concurrent edits on different objects (which may even be on the same page). Instead, they usually lead to duplicates and/or sync errors. Changes made at about the same time (or before having been completely synchronized from other devices) are not merged automatically. Note: No matter, if you have to use this method or not (as you are using OneNote 2016 for Windows), one problem remains and has to be considered: If several users (or you yourself on several devices) have opened the same notebook that contains the attached file, there are separate versions of this file in the respective cache folders. Manually insert the new, modified file from the previously selected directory.Delete the old version of the attached file from the OneNote page.Save the changes (still under the new name in the selected directory).The edited document usually automatically adopts the new name. From there save the document under the same or a different name in any directory.Open the file in its corresponding application (e.All these versions only allow you to edit a file that is embedded in a OneNote page using an inconvenient workaround: This affects OneNote for Windows 10 (UWP), iOS, MacOS and Android. The most important and unpleasant information beforehand: This is system-related and cannot be corrected by any setting. In all other versions, the document is opened as Read-Only and cannot be edited and saved back to OneNote. An explanation.ĭouble-clicking on a DOC file embedded in OneNote opens it in Word, where you can edit and save it again – at least it seems to be supposed this way.

The only exception is OneNote 2013/2016 for Windows. Documents that are embedded in a OneNote page will always open in read-only mode.
