I have a Notebook that I don't want to delete altogether - I want to archive
it. So I tried 'closing' one and it just vanished it altogether and wasn't
even visible in 'All Notebooks' on the Navigation Pane. [I think that should
be called 'All Open Notebooks' because it is NOT all notebooks.]
I then went to File Open, Notebook and it whipped me right out of OneNote
and into Windows Explorer. There was the notebook I had just closed - end of
heart failure.
There seem to be two kinds of 'closed' within OneNote. There is the heavy
duty version of closed (which I've just described) and the Lite version which
is when a Notebook icon in the Navigation Pane looks like a closed book
rather than an open book.
How do the experts differentiate between these two types of 'closed'? Why
is there...

When a notebook is closed, you effectively remove the file from OneNote's
knowledge like you discovered. In the other case you describe, the notebook
is open, but not active or not the current one. The usual way of working
with this is to keep all notebooks open and only close a notebook if you
want to archive it. This is not just a question of how it looks like to you,
because open notebook are cached by OneNote (relevant if the notebook is
shared with other people or resides on another computer).
The nomenclature is pretty much in line with Word, Excel, etc except that in
OneNote, you don't normally close files like you would in those programs.

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"oistrakhan" discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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oistrakhan wrote:

"Yes, "All Notebooks" just shows all *open* notebooks.
How should ON present notebooks that are closed?

oistrakhan wrote:

oistrakhan wrote:

"Yes, "All Notebooks" just shows all *open* notebooks.
How should ON present notebooks that are closed?