
You can also download the Office apps on up to five different computers, and you can use your student account to log in to the mobile apps.īy using Office 365, you can access your school work anytime and anywhere, as long as you have an Internet connection and a web browser. Microsoft has completely removed this function in OneNote 2016.Office 365 is a Microsoft web service with online versions of the Office apps, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote. On the contrary, if you use the ability to scan directly in OneNote, you should even stick to an older version. New functions have been only been added with OneNote 2013 (and these are hardly worth mentioning). Just as a side: By updating from OneNote 2010 to 2016 you gain almost nothing apart from a somewhat more modern look. Given the fact that Microsoft does not support Office 2010 anymore, the first option would be the better choice.

But it should work by uninstalling OneNote 2016 first and then using the Office setup program OneNote 2010.


The free OneNote 2016 may appear as a full-fledged Office OneNote. The data format hasn’t been changed since OneNote 2010. Some suspected a format compatibility problem. After that existing notebooks could no longer be opened. Recently, the Answers forum has seen an increasing number of calls for help from users who have accepted Microsoft’s free offer and have upgraded their old Office OneNote 2010 to the free version of OneNote 2016.

A warning to all those who think that OneNote 2010 could be updated to OneNote 2016 for free without problems: There’s a big trap lurking here.
