This may not be a biggie as if you want to let OneNote work with Outlook, you have the full MS Office suite installed and thus also the full-featured OneNote 2016.
This includes sharing tasks or contacts with Outlook, importing embedded previews of Excel or Visio documents and even exporting OneNote pages to MS Word. All functions related to other MS Office modules are missing.
#UPGRADE TO ONENOTE 2016 FREE UPDATE#
This can especially lead to big problems if you took the tempting offer to update your (Office version of) OneNote 2010 or 2013 to the free OneNote 2016. OneDrive or OneDrive for Business as storage location is mandatory in the free version of OneNote 2016. The corresponding menu entries are there but selecting them only results in an error message. The free Version of OneNote 2016 lacks the ability to store notebooks on or load/import them from local drives and folders.But Microsoft soon thought it over and added almost all missing features with the following updates so that in the end the free version of OneNote 2013 (meanwhile OneNote 2016) looked pretty much identical to the Office version. Essential functions have been left out or blocked, like recording audio notes or encrypted sections. But a closer look of that version soon revealed a lot of flaws and missing features, compared to the version that is installed with MS Office 2013.
#UPGRADE TO ONENOTE 2016 FREE FOR FREE#
It’s been exciting news when in March 2014 Microsoft announced that OneNote 2013 would be now available for free to everyone. Is it really the full OneNote 2016? And why is the Microsoft website telling me I already got it?
Since early 2014 Microsoft is offering a free download of OneNote, at first OneNote 2013, now OneNote 2016.