How to Disable Endless Scrolling / Endless Pages in Onenote

One of Onenote’s primary features is endless page scrolling. Sometimes, the printer or the PDF exporter doesn’t quite get the page breaks right. So how do you resize your notes to be one page at a time?

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• Fixed page width Onenote

Follow the gif (actually it’s a WEBM) below to disable endless pages in Onenote:

Onenote Classic (Onenote 2016)

Steps (same as in the video/gif):

1. Go to the View tab
2. Click page size (the 8th icon from the left, under page setup category)
3. A pane on the right will appear
4. Select your desired paper size on the size dropdown
5. Voila!

Caveats

The only drawback from this, in my opinion, is that you will then end up switching from page to page endlessly (instead of the page being endless). But then you can break your page accordingly.

No, your words won’t automatically flow into new pages when you reach the end of the page. Not like Word, not like InDesign. That’s the biggest pain of constraining your page.

There is also a Split and Merge pages function in Onemore, but I have never tried it.

I also mentioned OneMore in:

• https://en.hitechpilot.net/how-to-create-table-of-contents-with-onemore-onenote-2-steps/
• https://en.hitechpilot.net/how-to-crop-a-picture-in-onenote/

Onenote for Windows 10

But that’s for Classic OneNote. What about Onenote for Windows 10?

You can make the paper size in Onenote Classic, and it will remain in Onenote for Windows 10. So the problem is that the “page size” button is just not there, but Onenote stores the information between apps. (haven’t tried for iOS and Android, please let me know)

Do I have to switch back and forth every time?

Nope, you can make a whole section of “page templates” in Onenote Classic, and then duplicate as necessary. Let me know if this confuses you.

However, I believe, since there are rumors that Microsoft will merge both Onenote versions, this is bound to change for the better.

Please let me know if you discovered something, in the comments below.

Hope this helps!

This article had been mentioned on:

• https://www.reddit.com/r/OneNote/comments/125ibuq/print_one_note/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/OneNote/comments/ya4n2o/feature_suggestion_fixed_page_width_like_in/