All of my OneNote 2007 notebooks are stored on my desktop pc. I also use a
tablet pc and a laptop, both of which are setup to use the notebooks on the
desktop through my wireless network. Have had no problems since I set them
up last fall and use them daily However, up to this point I had not used
hyperlinks to go to various places within the notebooks.

Last week, using my laptop computer I created a notebook (stored with the
rest of the notebooks on my desktop) that had several sections and
subsections (and subsections to the subsections) and numerous pages in each
subsection. I then created an index page with links to various pages in the
subsections. All seems to work ok on the system that I created the links on.

I then opened the same notebook on my tablet pc and desktop and most of the
links work as expected., going directly to the desired page within the
"Notes" section for instance. However, some links don't jump to the desired
page directly as expected. Instead, I get a message box asking me something
like "Do you want to open the *01 - Sales* notebook in OneNote (recommended)
or just open the "Notes" section from within it?"

Do you by any chance have the notebooks open with the UNC syntax on the
laptop (\\desktopname\share\notebook\etc) and the local syntax on the
desktop (c:\folder1\notebook\etc)? If so, then OneNote on the desktop
will think that the hyperlink points to a different notebook (because
the path looks different), even though the files are the same. The easy
fix is to open the notebooks on the desktop computer using the UNC path,
and close the copies opened from the local path. You'll get slightly
slower sync times on the desktop, but there should be no other adverse
effects.

Ilya

Ilya,

That seemed to be it. I had several ways to access the notebooks on my
desktop (your first example was similar to how the links were set up in the
files and thus worked fine from the pc that I'd designed it on. From the
desktop I was trying to use the same notebook following your second example.
On the third system I had tried using a mapped drive setup to go directly to
the notebooks and also through my Hamachi remote network.) No wonder I was
having problems. Didn't think through what I was trying to do. Your
suggestion makes sense. When I accessed the notebooks from all three
computers with the proper UNC syntax all three worked ok.

Everything is working fine now from all three computers using the correct
path. However, I still don't understand why on the systems that weren't
working properly before, why some of the links were working but others were
not (but there's a lot that I don't understand).

Rev. Michael L. Burns wrote:

If some of the links were linking to other pages within the same
section, those would continue to work even if you move the notebook or
open it using a different path. It's the links between sections that
tend to break.

That is the recommended way to create links. We're aware of this
problem, and are looking for possible improvements in the next version,
but I can't promise anything at this point.

Ilya,

Thanks again for the explanation on what I was seeing. Again you were right
on target. Great job! I am not a programmer so can't write such a powertoy
but hopefully someone else might see the need and write such a toy. Thanks
again.

Michael

"Ilya Koulchin" hotmail.com> wrote in message
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I seem to have the opposite problem to this poster. When I create an
Outlook task using OneNote 2007, the resultant task item is created
using UNC format (\\Computername\DriveName\...). The issue here is that
if I click on the task to go back to OneNote, it then thinks I am
attempting to open a shared notebook, which I'm not. I've noticed that
if I edit the Outlook Task item and recast it to local syntax
(C:\Foldername\...) then everything works fine.

My question is, how can I get OneNote to create the Outlook task items
using local syntax rather than the UNC format? Any help would be
appreciated.

MrktngUser3966 wrote:

I'm not really sure what you mean. How exactly are you creating the
task? How are you editing the task item?