editing doesn't work!

[AllenF]

Help!

I'm fairly new to OneNote, and for some reason, I can no longer edit my
notes. I can't type in new notes, change fonts, cut paste or use the
backspace key. Other applications work just fine. The title bar of the app
doesn't have (Read Only) in parenthesis.

All help appreciated. Allen

 

[Kathy Jacobs]

Did you activate your copy of OneNote? If you installed it as a trial and
the trial expired or if you never activated it, OneNote will make your notes
Read Only. Basically, it then becomes a viewer instead of an editor for your
notes.

--
Kathryn Jacobs, Microsoft MVP PowerPoint and OneNote
Author of Kathy Jacobs on PowerPoint - Available now from Holy Macro! Books
Get PowerPoint and OneNote information at www.onppt.com

I believe life is meant to be lived. But:
if we live without making a difference, it makes no difference that we lived

 

[AllenF]

Thanks for the response, Kathy.

I had activated. I thought maybe that my activation was lost, but menus
don't work either. I select a menu item and OneNote just sits there. I've
restarted the computer a few times and that hasn't helped.

 

[Erik Sojka (MVP)]

Can you get into the menus to do a "Detect and Repair"?

 

[AllenF]

Erik--

Thanks for the response. I was able to get the dialog to come up, but I'm
still locked out after a repair. Is there any way I could have accidentally
turned on some sort of different input or different set of keyboard shortcuts?

Thanks for the help.

Allen

 

[James Gockel]

Did you activate a trial version?
After 30 days (or was it 60) it becomes inactive again, and requireing you
to purchase the software. Where you can just enter the new activation key
and continue to enjoy onenote after that!

-James G.

 

[AllenF]

James--

Thanks for the response. No, I purchased OneNote in an Office 2003 Academic
bundle (I'm currently going to school part time). I'm on my work laptop,
which had office XP on it, and for testing purposes, needed to put Office Pro
2003 on it via an MSDN CD. I haven't had a chance to roll back yet. It sure
seems like it's acting as a viewer just like you and Kathy have suggested.
Could that be the problem?

 

[James Gockel]

Hmmm... I hate to say it, and I can't say for sure, but since I think I'm
the only one up at this hour thinking of this situation... I don't think
OneNote is apart, or allowed to be apart of any bundle...
http://www.microsoft.com/office/editions/howtobuy/compare.mspx
So, I'm very seriously thinking that you've got a demo of onenote, with a
demo key... My father bought office 2003 Small Business Edition, and it came
with a demo disk for O.N... I bought O.N. Seperatly... But I dont remember
if it had a key just for onenote.

-James G.

 

[AllenF]

It was a separate CD, in its own box, with it's own key. The word Trial or
Demo does not appear anywhere. The "Bundle" that I bought included office
professional, Project (in its own box), and OneNote (in its own box). I've
had it since September and have used it regularly. I highly doubt it is a
demo because I've been using it for more than 60 days. The only thing that
I've changed recently was installing O2k3 from an MSDN CD for some testing.

Besides, wouldn't it warn me that my trial period was up? If it doesn't warn
me, that's *really* bad design. I've been in sofware quality assurance a long
time. If I let that quality issue go, I wouldn't have a job ;-).

I was unable to roll back. None of my restore points seem to want to work.
Time to get out the ghost disks.

 

[Erik Sojka (MVP)]

Before taking that last-ditch step, try completely uninstalling OneNote,
rebooting, then reinstalling OneNote (then register/activate, etc.) to
see if that helps.

 

[AllenF]

Erik--

Didn't read your message in time. I went ahead (needed to get rid of the
MSDN stuff anyway). and ghosted. That fixed the problem, BUT now it is back.
Here's what I did:

Opened a word doc
Copied and pasted some notes into One Note
Closed one note
Opened firefox
Launched one note. All my editing options greyed out when I tried to edit my
notes again.

Really started to get aggrivated with oneNote. I'll try a complete
uninstall, and report back. but one question. Are there any settings in a
..one file (or whatever the template for .one files--akin to normal.dot) that
can make this happen?

 

[AllenF]

I'm now having this problem with MS word as well. I'm getting an error
message in the message bar that says:

"This modification is not allowed because the document is locked"

What the heck...

 

[iulih]

I have the same problem with OneNote, does it work for you now ?