Choosing the Default Search Scope

When you click in the Search In box (or press Ctrl+E) and enter a search term, OneNote initially searches using the default scope selection: This Section, This Section Group, This Notebook, or All Notebooks. You can tell what the default scope selection is by glancing at the Search box. If it reads “Search All Notebooks (Ctrl+E),” for example, All Notebooks is the default scope, and unless you choose a different search scope, searches begin by finding notes in all open notebooks.

You can change the default search scope so that initial searches find notes in an area of your choice: This Section, This Section Group, This Notebook, or All Notebooks.

To change the default search scope, open the Change Search Scope menu ...

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