Over the past year, the company modernized the visual experience of the unified OneNote app for Windows.

Microsoft unveiled its plans to consolidate the OneNote experience on Windows back in August 2021. As we get closer to the end of support date, you will see reminders to try out the OneNote app,” the OneNote team explained. We recommend you switch over to the OneNote app as soon as you’re comfortable doing so. It will continue to work, but it will not get new feature updates and will reach end-of-support in October 2025. “With this change, OneNote for Windows 10 will no longer be available in the Microsoft Store. Microsoft’s UWP version of OneNote (also known as OneNote for Windows 10) will no longer show up in the search results, but the app will continue to work until it reaches the end of support deadline in 2025. 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 announced that its OneNote desktop app is now available to download on the Microsoft Store. 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.

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