How to Disable Pressure Sensitivity in Onenote

Some people look for pen pressure sensitivity as a feature. It allows them to make precise opacity changes, for example. But for the others, it may be a hinder to their note-taking flow. This is how you disable pressure sensitivity in Onenote.

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If you’re looking to turn ON pen sensitivity, just reverse the steps (select ink thickness other than the lightest, for example)

Onenote 2016

Example of non-uniform handwriting

Do you want to make your handwriting in Onenote uniform? Just follow the video below to disable pressure sensitivity

  • Go to file
  • Click on options (down below)
  • Click on advanced
  • Untick/disable “Use pen pressure sensitivity”
  • Click on OK, then restart/reopen Onenote

Voila! Uniform handwriting!

But that’s for Onenote 2016. I only have Onenote for Windows 10 (the UWP / Metro version of the app). That setting is not there, does it mean that we can’t disable it?

Onenote for Windows 10

Here’s how to disable pen pressure on Onenote for Windows 10:

Select the lightest weight on the ink. That’s it.

Surface Pro

Unfortunately, there isn’t a way to get heavier ink and yet disable pen pressure. But, if you’re on Surface Pro, you can set your pen pressure in the Surface app to the lightest

disable pressure sensitivity in onenote : surface pen setting

and the heaviest ink setting will not have pressure sensitivity.

That is how you disable pressure sensitivity in Onenote. Hope this helps!

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