OneNote 2003 sections will not convert to 2007??

[keanton]

Some sections from my 2003 version will not convert to the 2007 file format.
Are there some known limitations on what prevents the conversion of the file?
For example, when I'm viewing a 2003 section in 2007 and then click on the
InfoBar to "Upgrade this section" I get the message "OneNote has encountered
a problem and cannot complete this operation".

 

[Daniel Escapa [MS]]

The only time this may happen is if you have corrupted notes. For example
the section you are trying to upgrade, if it contained 'bad' data that might
cause OneNote to fail on upgrade. Try going through the pages to see what
pages look correct and which ones do not render on the screen. If you don't
have too many pages you could try copying the pages from the ON2003 section
to a newly created ON2007 section and see if that works.

Please let us know if this works for you. Finally I will say that you could
log a bug on our Connect site just so we have an extra copy of the file and
we can see what the problem is. The site to do this is:
http://connect.microsoft.com/onenote/

Take care!

 

[keanton]

I was able to upgrade the pages, but not really sure why this method worked.
The old and new versions of OneNote are installed on my desktop computer;
when I installed OneNote 2007 on my laptop, and then accessed the "desktop"
pages from the laptop, I was able to successfully upgrade the remaining pages
to OneNote 2007. For some strange reason, I was only able to upgrade those
remaining pages when accessing them over my network on my laptop.