To help prevent unauthorized access to your notes, you can apply a password to specific sections of your notebook.Ĭlick the tab of the section you want the password to apply to. Top of Page Apply or remove password protection Apply a password to a section
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It helps secure sections of your notebook even if your notebook file is copied to another computer or a file server, or if your laptop or Tablet PC is lost or stolen. Secured mobility Unlike a computer password, which controls access to your computer, but does not protect the individual files stored on it, OneNote password protection remains with your notebook file. Depending on how you want to share such information with others, you can assign different passwords to different sections. OneNote encrypts protected sections to help keep your personal information secure.įlexible security If you use OneNote to document your life at school, at work, and at home, you're likely to set up separate sections for each.
In this age of rising identity theft, leaving this type of information unprotected is risky business. Personal privacy Your notebook may include a dedicated section or folder that contains personal data, such as your home address, telephone numbers, Social Security number, bank and credit card account numbers, Web site login credentials, and similar information. The most common scenarios for using passwords to help control access to the information in your notebooks include the following: Note tags used on any of the pages within a protected section aren’t included in a note tag summary unless the protected section is unlocked. To include a protected section in a search, you’ll have to unlock the section first. Password-protected sections aren’t included in notebook searches. So take care when assigning passwords to your notebook sections and when changing them. If you forget your password, no one will be able to unlock your notes for you (not even Microsoft Technical Support). OneNote uses encryption to secure password-protected sections. Make sure that the Caps Lock key is off before you create or enter a password. Passwords can be applied only to notebook sections, not to entire notebooks. To make notes in password-protected sections temporarily available to other programs, select Enable add-on programs to access password-protected sections when they are unlocked. To lock notebook sections immediately after you're done working in them, select Lock password-protected sections as soon as I navigate away from them. To lock notebook sections after a specified amount of time, select Lock password-protected sections after I have not worked in them for the following amount of time, and then select the amount of time that you want. Under Passwords on the right, do any of the following: In the OneNote Options dialog box, choose Advanced.
You can customize the period of time, and you can set other options for the ways that password protection is applied to your protected sections. Password-protected sections that you’ve unlocked will lock again automatically if you’re not working in them. Top of Page Set password protection options In the Remove Password dialog box, type the current password, and then click OK. (If this option isn’t available, it means the section doesn’t have a password.) In the Password Protection task pane, choose Remove Password. Right-click the section tab that has the password you want to remove, and choose Password Protect this Section. Remove the password from a protected section Type the new password into the Enter New Password box.Ĭonfirm the password by typing it into the Confirm Password box, and then click OK. In the Change Password dialog box, type the current password into the Old Password box. In the Password Protection task pane, choose Change Password. Right-click the section tab that has the password you want to change, and choose Password Protect this Section. In the Password Protection task pane, choose Lock All.Ĭhange the password for a protected section Right-click any of the protected (but currently unlocked) section tabs and then choose Password Protect this Section. If you’ve applied passwords to multiple sections in your notebook, you can lock them all at the same time. Lock the protected sections in your notebook
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