Share and stay organized in OneNote
Share an entire notebook
Your notebooks are private unless you choose to invite other people to view or edit its contents.
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Open the notebook that you want to share.
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Near the upper right-hand corner of the OneNote app window, click Share.
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In the Share pane, select This notebook from the dropdown menu.
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Under Email invitation, type one or more email addresses in the box at the top, and then do one of the following:
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Select Can edit if you want people to be able to view and edit the pages in your notebook.
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Select Can view if you want people to only be able to view your notebook, but not make changes to it.
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Click Share to email an invitation to the current notebook to the selected recipients.
Share a single page of notes
If you don’t want to share your entire notebook with other people, you can share a specific page.
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In your notebook, open the page that you want to share.
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Near the upper right-hand corner of the OneNote app window, click Share.
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In the Share pane, select This page from the dropdown menu.
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Click Create to create a Web link that you can share with other people.
When the sharing link has been created, click Copy, and then paste the link wherever you want to share it.
Share a static copy of a page
Follow these steps if you want to send a static snapshot of a page of notes or an entire notebook. Snapshots of notes won’t automatically update if the owner of the notebook makes changes to the original notes in the future.
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In your notebook, open the notebook or page that you want to share.
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Near the upper right-hand corner of the OneNote app window, click Share.
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In the Share pane, choose whether you want to share a snapshot of This page or This notebook.
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At the bottom of the pane, click Send a copy.
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In the Share menu that opens, select the recipients, or select the app where you want to share (for example, the Windows 10 Mail app).
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