Searching in a password protected section

[Amos Soma]

I've noticed that if I attempt to search for something in a password
protected section, it won't find matches when matches exist. Is this working
as designed? If so, is there anything I can do to have it tell me matches
exist in the password protected section, but then require me to enter the
password before displaying the section to me?

Thanks.

 

[Erik Sojka]

OneNote only searches inside of open files. It will only look inside of a
protected file if it has been unlocked recently and hasn't been relocked
(according to the settings in Tools | Options | Passwords).

The password-protected section must be unlocked for OneNote to search inside
of it.